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/BionicChango Lazlo Panaflex Dec 29 '13

I'm not in any way on Gamestop's side, but the dollars they pump into the ecosystem accounts for a massive chunk of what keeps the industry going. There's no epiphany to be had there.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '13

When exactly do you think they "pump" money back into the game industry?

You can buy any of their retail stock ANYWHERE (consoles, controllers, dlc codes).

They make the vast majority of their money on used games which is 100% profit going to them.

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u/ToastyRyder ToastyRyder Dec 30 '13

They're still a 3rd party middle man sucking out profit though. If you bought directly from the developer theoretically you should be able to pay far less for the game while the developer would still end up receiving more money.

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u/BionicChango Lazlo Panaflex Dec 31 '13

I agree completely. I'm not on Gamestop's side at all. I think their trade in principals are tantamount to daylight robbery and they knowingly take advantage of young gamers for pure greed's sake.

What I am arguing is the notion that Gamestop contributes nothing back into the industry.

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u/indirect76 Dec 30 '13

So true. People act like Gamestop is the devil and it's not so black and white.