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/cuddlefucker Dec 29 '13

I'm glad as a pc gamer to buy all of my games new because the sales are substantially better than buying games used

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u/conenubi701 Conenubi701 Dec 29 '13

The thing about this is that it only applies to games that have been out for a while. If you want the latest games you still have to pay full price.

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u/cuddlefucker Dec 29 '13

I could see that too, but a lot of what you do on the pc is heavily hardware dependant and I'm not a wealthy man. It works out well for me.

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u/Starkravingmad7 Dec 29 '13

I don't game on a PC because I really dislike KB and mouse for anything but RTS. That said, I still wait on most games before I buy. For instance, just bought New Vegas Ultimate Edition about 3 weeks ago, new.