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No, they were clearly satisfied with having the certainty of legally-purchased games via the 24-hour check… You remove that and their narrow minds can’t take it and the whole thing comes tumbling down.

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Yes, they could/should have done that, and I’m willing to bet they’ve actually had this discussion themselves. At the end of the day they’re trying to appease both the consumers and the publishers, and the latter have so much power that I doubt that they’d have been able to cut through the bullshit politics to get a good compromise. It’s fucking lose/lose…

about 6 hours ago on Microsoft's Xbox One Backtrack: A Sad Day

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It’s not difficult from a technical perspective. It’s the bullshit publisher politics. They’ve got SO much power, it’s ridiculous.

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The convenience of not having to think about what games to bring, not having to carry discs, put them in the console, swap discs whenever you want to switch games and being able to still play a game if you forgot to bring that one game seems plenty compelling to me.

Also having your entire game library available frees you and your friend to just look through the list and pick up whatever sounds like a good time.

Don’t quote me on this but I remember reading somewhere that you’d be able to play your games as they were downloading, kinda like the new Office 2013 works… Will have to dig up a source.

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I’d put my money on the publishers not willing to allow both systems.

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Um, that is clearly not what I said. Reading comprehension?

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The Xbox One plays single player games aside from doing a lot of other things, most of which require the Internet.

If you bought an Xbox One just to play single player games, it seems you’re wasting your money as you’re not using 90% of the device’s capabilities.

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Damn I fucked that up. Again:

You have an Xbox One. Your friend has an Xbox One. Your friend can come over your house and have access to his entire game library at your place. You come over your friend’s house and have access to your entire game library at his place.

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See how this is open to interpretation? Can everyone in my family be playing from my library at the same time? Or just me and one other person?

Nope. Any one of your friends can play at a time. It means one of them (plus yourself, as you can play your own games whenever you want) at a time. It couldn’t be clearer.

Huh? I said my friend having a good Internet connection. Your scenario evolving around going over to a friend’s house requires they have a good Internet connection and waiting for the game to download.

The point stands, doesn’t it? Why does your friend have an Xbox One without a good Internet connection? The scenario is as follows: You have an Xbox One. Your friend has an Xbox One. Your friend can come over your house and have access to your entire game library at your place. You come over your friend’s house and have access to my entire game library at his place. But you don’t care about these scenarios so why are we even arguing it?

Ah, my mistake – I assumed reasonable discussion was a possibility. Nevermind, then.

I was half joking (and thought that was obvious), but you’re right… Nevermind.

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Yes it was confirmed… Per Microsoft’s Xbox One licensing page:

Give your family access to your entire games library anytime, anywhere: Xbox One will enable new forms of access for families. Up to ten members of your family can log in and play from your shared games library on any Xbox One. Just like today, a family member can play your copy of Forza Motorsport at a friend’s house. Only now, they will see not just Forza, but all of your shared games. You can always play your games, and any one of your family members can be playing from your shared library at a given time.

Source: Xbox One Licensing

Obviously (and happily for you!) none of that applies anymore.

Your “having a good Internet connection” argument is moot. If you’re buying a machine that does 90% of its activities on the Internet, it is assumed you have a good Internet connection. You don’t? Don’t buy one.

Sharing games doesn’t apply to you? Great, screw the rest for whom it does apply.

In short, you are the worst.

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Games bought digitally don’t require the disc. The only benefit is now not having to have the disc in the console. It sucks. The sharing features were the ones I was looking forward to the most.

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I do hope they do the obvious thing and let W8/RT apps be adapted to the Xbox. The easier they make it for developers, the better.

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I like your style, Paul.

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You can share with your friends, doesn’t necessarily have to be family members. The only restriction is that of those people with whom you share a game, only one can play the game at a time. You can play your games whenever you want though, so I’m guessing it’s possible for you to play CoD with one of your friends with only your license of the game.

It’s a scenario that’s only made possible by the discless nature of the new Xbox and the oh-so-evil 24-hour-DRM checkin everyone keeps crying about.

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Indeed. People declaring PS4 the victor are being awfully short-sighted. Sony made a hardware upgrade but basically maintained the status quo.

The future is discless, and the benefits are clear: Your entire game library available everywhere, the ability to share your entire game library with your friends and family, digital downloads of every game available from day one, and no need to have the disc in your console to play.

Both Sony and Microsoft have implemented a form of DRM, only that Sony’s is the way it’s always worked (the license is associated with the disc) and Microsoft is moving forward with associating the license with your account.

Either way, time will tell. Day one purchase for me.

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