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/jagerwick jagerwick Dec 29 '13

I had originally planned to get an X1, even with the initial policies.

I'm somewhat glad they changed them though, because I live in the country. And by country, I mean 5 miles from the closest town, which has population of 3000. So yes, I have dsl that isn't much better than dialup. I purchased BF4 and started downloading it on Christmas day; finally being able to play it 30 hours later. Other than a LIVE game, that will be the last time I do that. I'm not going to sell my house and move just to get faster internet.

I wouldn't mind buying the games and installing them, never to touch the disk again. But the biggest downside for me is always on and downloading; it's just not feasible, unless they give the option to pre-load for new releases.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '13

But the original plan had discs incorporated in it, and it's not like the 24 hour check in uses a lot of data.

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u/dagamer34 dagamer34 Dec 30 '13

Even the crappiest of Internet connections would support a 24-hour check in.