Adinnieken said:
LurkerJ said:
I think people bring up internet outages just to complain more. Check ins every 24 hours wouldn't have been a concern if they weren't there to enforce DRM and stop rentals. Check-in is the least of xbone problems, there are other several issues that still need more clarifications, more than what's mentioned on xbox wire.
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They're not there to stop rentals. Disc-based rentals are not possible with retail discs because the first person to install the game would own it.
The disc is just a medium to transport the digital content.
That said, what needs to be worked out is how you could allow rentals. My thoughts is that rental services would need to purchase special discs that function differently than regular retail discs. They would still use DRM, but the key would limit limit the functionality or disable the game after x number of days, with or without a check-in.
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I would go for special discs that need to be in the drive to function. Still fully install but not need registration. If you like the game enough to buy it then you can pay to activate the installed copy. Do game rental places just buy normal retail copies at the moment? I know in the 80s video rental shops used to pay up to £100 per copy for films. Perhaps the could charge $150$200 per rental copy.
