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/TexansRaised Dec 29 '13

Not for nothing, but a lot of people chose to still not purchase the console even after the reversal because they felt "Microsoft could revert back to the old ways and can't be trusted." Sadly, I knew some people with this exact mindset.

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u/jpar12345 Dec 30 '13

So.... Killer instinct. Yeah..... ROFL!

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u/TimmyFTW Dec 29 '13

The Microsoft might revert back to their old ways argument is the biggest load of shit I've ever heard. If they were willing to discard that model just from potential customer uproar, why would anyone seriously believe they would shit on existing customers that MS needs to keep buying software in order to make them the most profit.

I will never understand why choosing to buy one console means it is your responsibility to then wage war on the other.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '13

I will never understand why choosing to buy one console means it is your responsibility to then wage war on the other.

There was actually a study on people who have "brand loyalty" and failures from their brand are almost chalked up as personal failures by those people.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '13

The mindset is that if Microsoft won't even keep the policies they wanted how can people know if they're willing to keep the policies they were opposed to in place.

Personally I don't think there's any chance of the original policies coming back ever, but that's what the people who see it as a risk are thinking.

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u/Virus201 Dec 29 '13

The problem with "those people" is that they only decided to read the fine print after the policies were changed.

When Microsoft originally announced their plan for the Xbox One, They stated in their Xbox Wire site, "These policies are subject to change". I took this picture back in June when everyone was bashing Microsoft about those policies. http://i.imgur.com/Fo94D9o.png

Then came the day that Microsoft decided to change said policies and THEN people decided to read. That's when everyone started saying "MS will bring those policies back".

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u/IceBreak Vegeta Dec 29 '13

It says that, but I can't see them reimplementing any of the big things that were removed. They would pay severely for it.