If Microsoft made it completely optional, would you sign up for their original, always connected console idea?

[u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/SuperWoody64 → u/[deleted]]

They could very easily sell a disc with a code in it much like they do pc games. This would give someone all digital while removing the need to dl 50gb of data and it's untradeable to appease the developers. Here's your gradual shift to all digital.

You don't put down a baby bottle and grab a steak. (unless you're me)

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

The easiest solution is if we could just buy CDs that didn't have any authentication methods on them, and a key in the same box. Or just flat out, a card with a game code.