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Jabbamk1 on 06 June 2013
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Imaginedvl said:
Jabbamk1 said:


In our role as a game publisher, Microsoft Studios will enable you to give your games to friends or trade in your Xbox One games at participating retailers. Third party publishers may opt in or out of supporting game resale and may set up business terms or transfer fees with retailers. Microsoft does not receive any compensation as part of this. In addition, third party publishers can enable you to give games to friends. Loaning or renting games won’t be available at launch, but we are exploring the possibilities with our partners.

As we move into this new generation of games and entertainment, from time to time, Microsoft may change its policies, terms, products and services to reflect modifications and improvements to our services, feedback from customers and our business partners or changes in our business priorities and business models or for other reasons. We may also cease to offer certain services or products for similar reasons.

In the months ahead, we will continue to listen to your feedback as we meet with our partners in the ecosystem to bring additional detail about our policies.



We are excited about this new generation of games and entertainment and look forward to sharing more news with our fans.

http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/main
OFFICIAL WORD FROM MS^

wow, as you posted very intelligent response so far; I would be interrested to get your opinion on this?
Personnaly, I love it.


To be honest with you my friend i'd rather prefer if the consoles stayed the same way they do now. Where used games were allowed etc.. 

According to the website, you can trade your game to a friend. That's great, but then it's too restrictive because you can only trade it once. After that it's locked to the person you traded it too. 

You can't sell the games privately on ebay or amazon or whatever which is a negative for me. It's blocking me from making money back on a game. 

The fact that it says "participating retailers" means that some publishers may not even allow you to resell the game to gamestop at all. Again a negative. 

The good thing is that you can trade in games to stores so that is good. Also another positive is that the controlled used games market is likely to drive prices down for new games. However whether that actually happens will remain to be seen. 

I really can't see many positives with these policies unfortunately. I'd be surprised if someone didn't take MS to court in Europe for this. 

It seems like MS are trying to eradicate the need for discs and just go digital download early. But they've jumped the gun here. If Sony do something similar i'm buying a new graphics card for my PC. 

But this is just my opinion. It'll vary for everyone. personally i don't think it's good.