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Microsoft has confirmed that all Xbox One games will require mandatory installation onto the system's hard drive and, to install the same disc onto another user's drive, a fee must be paid.

Individual games will be tied to Xbox Live accounts, Microsoft said, meaning that the software giant can detect whether a game has been sold to a retailer and repurchased, or handed from one friend to another. In such instances, the second user must pay a fee.

"On the new Xbox, all game discs are installed to the HDD to play," a Microsoft representative told Wired.

The company added that, once discs are installed on the hard drive, games can be played without a disc being in the tray.

The Wired article then elaborates: "What follows naturally from this is that each disc would have to be tied to a unique Xbox Live account, else you could take a single disc and pass it between everyone you know and copy the game over and over. Since this is clearly not going to happen, each disc must then only install for a single owner."

It added: "Microsoft did say that if a disc was used with a second account, that owner would be given the option to pay a fee and install the game from the disc, which would then mean that the new account would also own the game and could play it without the disc."

Microsoft did not disclose what the second-user fee would amount too, and did not clarify further on the matter.

The article claims that there is no sweeping 'always-online' require

 

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Welcome to the future of gaming!



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Aaand I'll buy a PS4 as my second Next-Gen console.



osed125 said:

Welcome to the future of gaming!

Not really, only Microsoft are adopting this into their console. Nintendo and Sony surely haven't.



That + kinect shoving kinda settles it doesnt it?



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well this is a deal breaker for me, i use gamefly. so unless this is a rumor, im out.



 

Sound fine by me. I buy most games new anyway. Sucks to be cheap but this is of no issue to me whatsoever.

The preowned market is not very big. I dont think any core xbox player will have a problem with this. Just certain fanboys coming up with reasons not to buy xone. 



And this explains why EA is dropping the online pass. I would not be surprised to see PS4 doing this as well. This is the same as Steam DRM where the license for the game is attached to your account. How the hell will this work with an offline console?



Getting an XBOX One for me is like being in a bad relationship but staying together because we have kids. XBone we have 20000+ achievement points, 2+ years of XBL Gold and 20000+ MS points. I think its best we stay together if only for the MS points.

Nintendo Treehouse is what happens when a publisher is confident and proud of its games and doesn't need to show CGI lies for five minutes.

-Jim Sterling

This just crush's me.



So, you won't be able to share games between accounts on the same damn machine. Someone's drunk me thinks...