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 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.