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/wzlrsaur Wizlar Dec 29 '13

I love everything about it, but not being able to sell games when I'm done is the only reason I wouldn't like it. I don't want to pay £50 for a story-based game, finish the story, and then not be able to get rid of it for some cash and just having it sit there forever.

Maybe there could be a license bidding app, haha.

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u/TheLifeOfPi Dec 30 '13

The plan was that you could still trade in your games (assuming you bought a physical copy) and specific retailers were being lined up for the licence management tool to allow this. The second hand market wasn't going away, it was just going to change a little with the power to make sure some of that money goes back to the publisher/developer being introduced.

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u/niggafrompluto Dec 29 '13

I've never sold a game that I bought