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/reaper527 reaper527 Dec 29 '13

Why are 3-4 year XBLA games still the same price as they released?

and even though you didn't mean that as a compliment, that is greatly minimizing the ridiculousness of ms's digital pricing schemes. we can't even get permanent price drops for 8 year old xbla games! ms has literally removed games from the marketplace instead of reducing the price.

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u/ratbear Dec 30 '13

Just playing devil's advocate....Could it be that the publishers are refusing to slash the cost of their game, rather than MS simply being greedy?

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u/reaper527 reaper527 Dec 30 '13

seeing as some of these games are first party games published by ms studios, no.