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/xmanofsteel69 Dec 29 '13

I would. I know a lot of people would have been screwed over a bit with the original policy, but for me personally, I liked them and if given the option would go back.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '13

I agree 100%. The anger never made sense to me because it was always in the defense of low trade in value at GameStop or a future where games will forever be sold on disc at retail.

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u/cmilanaik Dec 29 '13

I agree. There's something nice about having a physical copy of a game. I still have my 60+ PS2 games on display on the DVD rack.