| starcraft said: Seperately Microsoft have confirmed that for any one physical disk, the disk's owner will be able to play the game, and one of their ten family members will be able to play the digital share copy at the same time. So if you have a sharing situation set up with say one friend, you have literally just halved the cost of your games across the entire generation (assuming you have the same taste in games). In a pool of ten, five people could purchase the game and then all ten of you could play that game online simultaneously. This is a huge advantage over Sony's offering (notwithstanding the disadvantages that come with it in terms of required connections). |
I agree that it would be huge, but that's because some of you are clearly not paying attention.
Microsoft is not making a policy where one of every ten users only needs to purchase a game. They are not adding DRM, 24hr check-ins, very restrictive used sales with 30day mandatory live friendships and so on, just to allow you to have groups of 10users where only one person ever needs to buy a game wordwide.
Its just not happening. You're dilusional.
They are trying to soften the blow as they transition you all from physical copies you own, can share freely and sale freely to digital distribution where you rent a copy for the life of the console and can't share or resell. This is the halfway point.
So they are adding many digital restrictions but also adding some sharing features.
One of those is the ability to create essentially a "family" circle of ten individuals. In that group you'll be able to share your library and if they add you to their ten group, you can share their library. However, it follows the same basic principles as if you were all sharing a disc. Meaning only one console can play the game at a time.
Its pretty fucking obvious and its exactly what the OP quote is saying. ("6 different people, 6 different consoles, 6 different games")
I'm going to laugh come December (or earlier as final language comes out in TOS) when you all realize this very simple premise. You only bought ONE copy of the game and in real life you cannot simultaneously play that ONE copy of the game on two different consoles. You just can't. Try it with any disc game you have. Please, because if you can get it to work, it would be awesome to know how to do.
