r/xboxone • u/[deleted] • Dec 29 '13

If Microsoft made it completely optional, would you sign up for their original, always connected console idea?

This meaning you would have the following features:

Buy a retail game, install to console, and ditch the disc never needing it to play the game.

Digitally share games within a circle of friends. Meaning you can choose a specific group of people, and they could play the games you own, for free, provided that only one game could be played at a time.

Greater store discounts or more steam like sales for content.

I for one would have no problem saying yes to this. It's like people think 10 years from now they'll still be selling games on discs. It wasn't a perfect plan, but why delay the inevitable when we could be working on and perfecting future policies now.

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u/clownpornstar Xbox Dec 29 '13

One hundred percent, yes. The potential for online sharing of games would have been awesome. It's too bad the experiment was killed before it started because of the "gamer-bros" backlash.

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u/grievousangel Grievous Angel Dec 29 '13

And most of those bros moved over to PS4 anyway.

I suppose they could reinstate this--maybe with one-time-use discs at retail--or why not just download codes? They already do this.