| Kasz216 said: Perhaps it's a bargain in response for Xbox forcing the used game sales thing. I mean, on the face while this sounds awesome. In reality, just how often will this be used by the average consumer? To me it sounds like the old rebate "scam". Even when rebates are thousands of dollars... a lot of the time people just won't send them in. Regular people, not just real people.
Then add in that at least SOME of that saved money will be spent on other games. It's probably not as bad as you'd think.
Heck even the more mercanary of gamers are going to be hesiatant about WHO they add as their family. Unless you can drop and add family at will you want to make sure you don't end up with a mooch. Meaning if you can't... we're probably just look at people who know each other well adding each other... and chances are a lot of THOSE people won't play games as much as the couple APLHA buyers. Meaning they're likely just broadening their horizens. |
Could be. But if publishers are blaming rented games piracy used games for all of their woes instead of their own ineptitude, I just can't see them being cool with something so easily exploitable. Seemingly all you'd have to do is go into the "family group" thread on GAF or whatever, have everyone add everyone else so that they're all on each other's friends list for 30+ days (since there is no more 100 friends limit), ask around to see who has the game you want, and join their group.
Then again, if as I speculated (and I now see someone else says it is in the terms) publishers can make it so that you can't share their games, then maybe it will mostly be a first party games thing.
