| pbroy said:
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Are you serious? You don't think the Xbone's DRM policies are anti-consumer?
Point 1 - I buy new games either at retail (BB, WM) or from Amazon. Say I spend $60 per game. After a few months, I'm done with the game and I sell it to Amazon for about $25, which comes in the form of a gift card. So, in actuality, my net cost for owning that game was only $35. I like it.
But, oops, he comes Xbone, now I can only sell my game to an approved retailer. Who's that gonna be? How much will they give me for my game? Amazon can buy and sell the same game now for unlimited times. How's my system going to know I sold the game to the retailer? The retailer will have to deauthorize the game from my account before they can sell it to someone else. Do you really see Amazon providing the deauthorizing service?
Point 2 - MS is saying that I can buy a game on disc, sync it to my account and machine, and then go visit a friend and sign in to my account on their system and access my complete game library. No way. I don't see how this can happen. If you bought a game on disc, there is no way you could possibly play without having that disc in the system.
Let's say a game like Halo 5 or GOW4 is 30GB on a disc. Do you see that entire game getting installed to your hard drive from the disc? Let's say you buy it digitally on day one. Ok, then that download is say, 15GB compressed. You wait for it to download, uncompress, and install its 30GB size to your hard drive. How long will that take? You got the time to wait? But that's the only way it could work at a friend's house without needing the disc. Also, say you buy all your games digitally, at 30GB a pop, it won't take long to fill up your 500GB hard drive.
Point 3 - What's stopping me from giving out my username and password to a few friends? They could take turns on separate days accessing my account and playing all of the games in my library. I could charge them each a few bucks a month. If one of those friends messed with me, I would just change my password.
