| ethomaz said: Guys... the Major Nelson made a mistake. It is 2 people at the same time. But when 2 people at the same time its for singleplayer only. Also the other 8 people are not locked out from playing other games in the shared library. DLC is also shared. |
First about that Gaf thread you posted
All MS has to do is make the cool features of downloading the physical game to the cloud OPTIONAL.
This means if you want to all of the Cloud benefits like sharing with 10 people etc. Then that's your option to tie the game to your profile at that point. You would then fall under those applicable restrictions.
If not, then you should be able to play you Xbox One games as normal and share, trade etc at will to ANY retailer etc.
This would ease people into the digital world, while preventingthe potential of gamers to face their console locking them away from their physical game that they just bought that day, because their internet was down for a few days.
This also would allow the Navy to play their games offline as was recently brought up.
This has some techical difficulties, as not all retailers will have a way to check if you have tied the game to your account. (Unless there is a tamper proof way to visually mark the disc)
I think it would be simpler and preferable to keep the disc as the master copy.
Always allow off-line play from the disc. For online play you tie the disc to your account, which also enables family share etc.
Trade your disc or give it away and when the next person install it for online play it will be removed from your account.
2 people can play off-line, only 1 can play online.
This also has some technical difficulties. The reason why 2 can play off-line at the same time might be because of the 24h grace period on the primary console. You can always start your game within the 24h period, but it can't kick off your family member playing that game. (Who probably has to be online to do so to prevent from additional family members launching the game)
So to prevent 3 playing at once (primary, 1 family member, 1 off-line disc), Nelson's library analogy could help, meaning you have to 'check in' your digital game to your shared library after you're done playing before a family member can 'check out' the game. That can be automatic ofcourse but requires online. Although that would also mean that you need to be online to start your game again later. Not a big problem, since you still have the disc to play off-line.
So a minor inconvenience when your internet is out and you're still within the 24h period and you have checked your game into your shared library, you have to put in the disc.
Yet it solves all ownership worries, taking the console off-line, trade restrictions, and it's easy to implement. There a more consumer friendly console then ps4.
Only downfall is, no server sales to participating retailers, no way for publishers to restrict 2nd hand sales.
