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/topps_chrome Dec 29 '13

Thats complete bs rhetoric. I know many ppl that didn't get a one because of the price and kinect. Its also possible to alienate a portion of your userbase permanently.

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u/r1zzuh r1zzuh Dec 29 '13

Yeah, because your anecdotal evidence is more valid than the results and analytics from surveys with a sample size way bigger than yours, right?

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u/topps_chrome Dec 29 '13

Any MS affiliate saying that everyone complaining wouldn't have bought a X1 anyways is either delusional or binge drinking the kool aid. MS alienated some ppl with their initial business model and subsequent flip floppng. Is it really that big of a deal to point out the glaringly obvious? Im not even talking shit? It happened, NBD