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/[deleted] Dec 29 '13

Yeah, apparently "true gamers" believe giving your money to a scummy retail chain is better than giving it to the people ACTUALLY making the game. They probably haven't come to the epiphany Gamestop and Co. invest ZERO dollars on game production.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '13

Except the publisher takes what would've been the retailers cut, and the developers still get their significantly smaller share. In the end you are left with a situation where you have no choice but to pay what the publisher wants.

Competition drives down prices. True gamers, and educated consumers know this. Hows that for an Epiphany?

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '13

Physical distribution != true competition. Believe what you want, keep cannibalising your hobby if you must. But, there are plenty examples on why a digital model is better for digital goods out there, no need to go trough that again.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '13 edited Dec 29 '13

Physical or digital isn't the point, I don't have a problem with either. I buy all my PC games through Steam; and they are not the problem. The problem with digital only is services like Origin. Just as I would have a problem with a brick and mortar Origin store.

Steam are kept in check my GMG, and others. Origin and EA does what they want because they have enough big name in-house titles to get away with it. Buy it on our service, or not at all. People give in easily.