Xbox One family sharing works with friends!

[SvennoJ]

Adinnieken said:

SvennoJ said:

 

The difference is there is no risk or effort involved in lending this way. Just a simple family friend tag on your friends list. No having to meet up or mail the disc, no risk of it getting damaged in the mail or by your friend, no need to ask for it back. Instant and risk free lending all accross the country, it's far from 1:1 to lending discs.

If 10 people can share all there games together is true it will definitely hurt the sale of single player games.
'Hey can you family friend me for a couple of days so I can play your Tomb raider campaign and you can play my Bioshock infinite campaign?"
Just browse through your 1000 member friend list to find someone who has a game you want to play and doesn't have one of yours.

Sounds too good to be true. It also sounds like they are still making it up as they go along.
I would wait a year before stepping into the xbox one to see how it all turns out with owning, sharing and trading games.

I'm sure there are people that'll do that.  And I'm sure there will be people who allow people to borrow games.  As long as it's reciprocating it probably won't be a bad thing, but I'd personally tire quickly of someone who asked to be in my "family" to borrow a game I got and never had any games for me to borrow.  It's like a friend that borrows money but never pays you back.

I think it ends up being a trade-off that Microsoft is willing to accept.  Sure, it has a potential negative, but it also has a potential positive in that it could help sales too.  Either way, I still think you end up with a 1:1 situation. 

See the post above this one, not 1:1

Sure Microsoft is willing to accept it since game sharing will most likely be behind live gold.
I'm not so sure about publishers though, or rather I'm sure that they're discussing it right now.
It would be easy to add in all kinds of restrictions later too.

It would be a great system to get my friends to try out some different games, so it certainly has positives too. And I might actually end up trying a CoD campaign that way.

However I would rather like to be able to own the disc. Leave the disc as the master copy, so that it can always be used (in drive) to play the single player without any connection needs. Let me trade it, give it away, and simply remove my digital license when the next person links the disk to their account.

Anyway interesting experiment. It will certainly rock the boat. Restrict second hand sales to participating retailers and to be allowed by publishers, while making it 10 times easier to share games.
If the argument for using trade-ins to finance new purchases holds true, then it also works for 2 friends buying 1 game each and sharing them. Same amount of money going into game purchases, pooling together now instead of via the second hand route. Thus maybe even a bit more going to publishers. Yeah I agree that it could be 1:1 in that sense.  Game stores are screwed.

'Meet a new family member' Xbox One game sharing websites will be up next year.