JusSayian said:
Rafux said:
JusSayian said:
disolitude said:
JusSayian said:
They're not that much different at all. The only difference is Xbox one exist in the physical world why steam exist solely in digital space for now.
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Actually steam does have a retail presence and sells disks with games. Disks still need to be installed and activated and can't be resold once they are tied to an account.
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was not aware of that. Sounds much worse then MS policies. Why arn't people complaining about this?
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Cause you can choose to not buy steam retail games, on x1 is mandatory on all games also Steam is on PC not a console.
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So if they do not buy a retail steam game they will have to download it from steam. You and you alone can play that game than, this is not the case with the Xbox one which allows up to 10 "family" memebers to play the game simultaneously on different accounts or systems without the need of the disc. While on steam if you switch PCs you have to redownload the entire game again.
Why does it matter then Xbox is console and Steam is on PC? The point is Steam is more restrictive and offers less but gets praised. The Xbox One is built for the future, and MS knows the Cloud is the future just like they XBL was the future when they built the first Xbox.
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Theres been all sorts of DRM on PCs for more than 20 years, the root of it is the fact that PCs have always had installs because of the multitasking, you don't want to put your MS Office disc every time you want to use it right? PCs are not just for playing.
X1 on the other hand is a console which primary job is playing games and it should give users the option to play directly from the disc but instead of that installs and online activation are mandatory.
And that family members stuff is still confusing and not even MS twitter support knows all about it.
