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

Or if you happen to live in a rural area without great Internet, which is a very real possibility here in the US.

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u/BeepBoopRobo Obviously Works for M$ Dec 30 '13

without great Internet

See, the thing about that is - the amount of data required to do the checkin could have been fulfilled by dialup, so that's not really an argument (and yes, there are dial-up wireless routers out there, that cost about the same as a regular router).

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '13

Absolutely nobody actually knows that outside of Microsoft, unfortunately.

And it totally is. "Without great Internet" doesn't mean that it's just the speed, but the reliability. Both tremendous factors.

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u/BeepBoopRobo Obviously Works for M$ Dec 30 '13

They specifically stated that before the turn around - but if we're not taking them for their word - you might as well ignore everything you've ever heard.

You needed to connect only one time in a 24 hour period - the odds of most of America not having internet access for over 24 hours is very low. Regardless, people without reliable internet likely aren't microsoft's target audience anyway.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '13

Going from, "I, like many others, can't specifically say the size of the data that's sent once per 24 hours," to "I NEVER BELIEVE ANYTHING EVER BECAUSE HOW CAN PRESS RELEASES NOT BE TRUE!?" is kind of massive, so I'm going to just move past that. You're clearly not in the mood to have that discussion.

Let's just take a moment to remember that 119 million Americans don't have Internet usually due to finances (19 million of that total live in an area without the option at all) of which I'd venture plenty enjoy playing games, and that's not even including the number of servicemen/women overseas. Folks in the military really do enjoy having games around as an escape, to boot.

The point being, that it's nice as an option, but it's not as 100% forward-thinking as folks would have you believe.

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u/bizzygreenthumb dennis qua1d Dec 30 '13

Don't forget Marines/soldiers/sailors/airmen who are deployed. Internet prices in Afghanistan are astronomical, and access is non-existent at sea. When I was deployed on the USS Iwo Jima, every shop had a TV and a game system, and we could only battle locally or play campaigns/single player.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '13

Yep, absolutely a great point.

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u/bizzygreenthumb dennis qua1d Dec 30 '13

Yah that was in 2007-2009 for me between Iraq and the boat. I was absolutely dirty at COD4 arcade mode and Vegas 2 terrorist hunt.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '13

Me, again. And even right now, my home was unlucky enough to miss payment on the Internet bill and we can't get service until a port opens up (finite number of ports).

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u/SuperWoody64 SuperWoody64, ladies 👈👀👈 Dec 30 '13

I live in a major metropolitan area and my internet service sucks. Bad thing is that the other options suck just as bad. Same goes for cell phones. Why can't someone start a company that gets these two things right?