JWeinCom said:
I don't know if MS will be here in 7 years, in 10 years, in 20 years, or in 30 years, whether MS will still be in the games business, or whether their servers will still be up, or if the infrastructure will still be up to check my online status or go through whatever hoops they want me to go through. The point is that I know with 100% certainty that I will be able to play Super Mario Bros now or 100 years from now. The XBox One, not so much. I can't use the software without Microsoft's permission and if they one day 20 years in the future say "we're taking down the XBox One servers because it's been 20 years and we don't even make games anymore..." than I won't be able to use my software. I need 100% assurance that I can use the stuff I buy. No if, ands, buts, or asterisks. The family member thing extends to people using the same console as far as I could tell. If I have a family member who doesn't live with me, then as far as I could tell I'd have to go through their one time trade thing they have in place. And they can't trade it back, so if I want to play it again, sucks to be me. And what if I want to sell or lend a game to a friend or an acquaintance, not necessarily because I have an extra copy, but for whatever reason? I want to sell it to someone who is not on my friends list. I have to undergo a 30 day waiting period to sell something I own? And forget about lending. It's not like I should be able to let people use my stuff if I choose. And you've completely failed to address more than half of the things I've mentioned. If I want to play in my basement where I don't have internet access? If I travel a lot and I'm staying in hotels? At a relatives house with no internet access? At a college with weird restrictions? If I travel a lot and I'm in a hotel?
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First and foremost, I do agree that the OP using the term hater is silly. There are legitimate issues with MS X1 and having problems with the restrictions does not make a person a hater. I have plenty of issues with the X1 but I also take a look at everything instead of just my needs and wants. This is the crux with most consumers. They only factor their needs and wants, even to the detriment of the basic thing they want to acquire.
From MS site, Family members do not have to be on the same console. You would not have to set a limit if they were all on the same console just like you do not have to do so on the 360.
You can gift a game to a friend as MS has stated. MS games studio will do this by default. Publishers can restrict this ability if they so choose.
Play in your basement, relative house with no internet, hotel with no internet use your Smartphone to check in. With most wifi systems you can have your console setup to automatically connect to your cell phone when you set it as a wifi hotspot.
If you do not have confident in MS being here another 7 years, why would you purchase anything from them ever again. That goes for Sony and any other digital content provider like Apple Itunes, android market etc. The fact of the matter is that the market is changing. Whether consumers want it or not, you have already told content owners you are willing to give up your physical accouterments in digital content for virtual content. The Billions of money spent on Itunes, Amazon and other content providers show that consumers are comfortable in an online connected and digital provided world where there are restrictions on the selling of that content.
So if the world is going this route and you are concerned that 10 years down the line, your digital content will always be available then you have to make a decision to go with a corporation that has the ability to be there. Thats when you take a look at the health of a company and their future plans for this global connected world and content. Right now I would put MS in a huge lead over Sony and Nintendo. The money, infrastructure, design that MS has put into their cloud base technology is way beyond the other 2.
Personally I believe MS hedge their bets to early but time will tell if they did. Making it mandatory for games to be installed on the console like they did definitely made MS have to go down this course of action but the questions is what benefit did it have on MS to make this decision. Either that or they feel that they will get enough game support for people to go along with being dragged into the future about 3 years ahead of time.
