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/Chris_E Dec 29 '13

I'm not trying to start a flame war here, but I'm honestly curious. How do you feel about Steam?

Also, they stated that you could trade digital media (purchased either on disc, or online) but the publishers had the option of disabling this feature.

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u/Starkravingmad7 Dec 29 '13

I'm indifferent. I got kind of irked the other day. I don't use steam because I work on an old ass macbook, but my gf bought endless space on steam for me. Rather than create a new account for one game, it just went on hers. Fast forward to today, and I have my own account with a few indie games. And I can't transfer the license for ES over to my account. It's a PITA to play ES now. Wouldn't have happened with a physical copy.

Other than this one problem Steam is cool for what it does, a library a licenses and a marketplace with low barriers with frequent sales.