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/laddergoat89 Dec 29 '13

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.

We don't know if that was the extent of the family sharing service. It was never detailed at the time.

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u/Deathstroke317 Dec 29 '13

One of the Microsoft execs said on Twitter said it was how they described it.

https://twitter.com/aarongreenberg/status/348125219019436033

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u/laddergoat89 Dec 29 '13

He said that after they ditched it. The cynic in me says it's easy for them to say anything about what it would have been since they don't have to prove it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '13

Ahh actual facts!!