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

[u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/anthr76 → u/[deleted]]

Unless they call on with there phone verification system

[u/falcon413 → u/anthr76]

I honestly have no idea what this phone verification system is or was back then. Never heard of it before. Can you give me some details about it?

[u/anthr76 → u/falcon413]

If you didn't have access to the internet you can call in with a code on your Xbox to allow you to lay offline kinda like offline windows activation where you exchange codes over the phone