XBONE this is BIG! Pillaged from NeoGaf

[J_Allard]

VGKing said:

wfz said:
Wow, third parties are going to hate this, I'm assuming. Now the people don't even have to pay a used game fee or anything. Each game purchase can potentially = 10 playable games.

You and your friends can play COD together without all needing to buy the game. That is huge.

From the article:

"The only limitation, it seems, is that only one person can be playing the shared copy of a single game at any given time."

So no, this doesn't give Microsoft an advantage. If I want to lend my friend Halo 5 to play the campaign, they need to be on my friends list for 30 days + they have to download the whole game + they can only play it when I'm not playing it. It's convoluted/complicated.

The 30 days thing you're referring to is the ability to give a game to a friend. You give him the disc and it's gone from your library. This is family sharing. It's not the same thing. Though, the 30 days thing might still apply to a person being qualified to be added to your family list. Which makes sense for the publishers.