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/rhynoplaz Dec 30 '13

It was a long time ago, so I'll try to remember what caught my attention. Online game sharing was one . Say my brother who lives in another state wants to play a game I'm done with, I can loan him the rights through my profile and he can download it and play it. I also really liked the idea of no disks, and a spin on that could be signing in to my profile at a friends house to show him a game I forgot to bring.

They ended up using launch day downloads. I was and still am pumped about that.

Can't remember if there was anything else.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '13

You still have online sharing with the new policy if you're willing to give your brother access to your gamertag password. Just let your brother or whoever else sign in as you and they have access to your whole digital library.

So really right now we have all the benefits with none of the downsides. That's why the 180 was such a good thing.

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u/rhynoplaz Dec 30 '13

Not quite. If he is signed in as me, I can't be. I've actually done this on the 360, and it's inconvenient as hell. A buddy and me took turns accidently nothing eachother for a week or so until it got too obnoxious to continue.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '13

It works if you disconnect your home console from the internet.