XBONE this is BIG! Pillaged from NeoGaf

[binary solo]

badgenome said:

binary solo said:

One thing I think will happen is that you can't change your "family" group. Otherwise you'll get gamesharing among large numbers of people for a single game as people link and de-link family members all over the place.

Maybe. But GAF seems to have decided that you can pick ten friends to share your games, but you can only pick one friend whose games YOU can play. That sounds a lot more like the PS3's situation. I think we're going to have to wait for Gamescom for a clarification, though... and for the other DRM shoe to drop.

Ahh, interesting point of clarification, potentially. That actually sounds reasonably balanced as it prevents an exponential blowout of a single game being played by relative multitudes.

Perhaps everyone's been reading it that way, but I wasn't reading it that way at all. So if this limitation is true then it does mean what I thought was being claimed was too good to be true. But that's because I misunderstood what the family sharing thing actually was.

I'm still a little sceptical because it does still seem like more of a giveaway than MS or publishers would be prepared to give. But on MS's side if the sharing is behind the XBL Gold paywall then MS still gets paid, so maybe MS doesn't see it as a giveaway at all.

I'm still anti MS's overall DRM on principle, because I believe that a game disc should be freely tradeable, and restricting that freedom, but giving people things like the family group still stinks. But the family group thing at least represents a bit of air freshener masking the the bad smell of game trading restrictions.