| disolitude said: I will skip the whole sharing thing since we don't know exactly how taht was going to work, but it most likely would have been awesome. Here are some of the things I can think of.
1. Disc based games do not sync with the cloud or show up in your library profile http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/19/xbox-one-drm-marc-whitten/ Going to a friends place to play Halo 5 which you bought on disc? You will have to have your profile on a USB if you want the controller profile or game save to be there. Your digital profile will not have your settings for this game available. Buy your games digitally. They will be available day one for download you have a choice. 2. Fragmenting of a gaming library Only digital purchases show up in your profile. If next gen consoles are backwards compatible or there is no next gen much like there is no "next gen" for PCs, your gaming library will be partly digital partly disk based. If disk drives go away, so does your gaming library Again just buy your titles digitally. Conversely, if the XBL marketplace goes away so do your games. You can always keep your system around and play disc based games as they don't vanish into thin air as does digital content. 3. Digital purchases can only be made on xbox Live. For those that want to avoid disks like the plauge (like me), they can not take advantage of Best buy and Walmart clearances of games to buy digital games. Retail bought games are locked to the disk and not my Xbox Live ID. Intead the only place we can hope to get deals from is Xbox Live marketplace. Well supposedly digital titles would be cheaper. We all know this is not true and would not have been true for this generation at least even if they had ket the original DRM scheme. 4. Disk swaps and verification checks for no functional reason other than to enforce DRM Self explanitory. I'd rather have internet do something so I don't have to. Again just buy your stuff digitally. You then avoid the 'hassle.' 5. Gamestop and Publishers can keep screwing users with used games and passes Gamestop loves the new direction Xbox One is taking. Wonder why... http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=163044 Don't sell your games to gamestop. Gamestop was going to continue to be the used game retailer for XBone games anyways as they originally announced trades allowed at "authorized retailers" and Gamestop being the one of the largest they were sure to be an authorized retailer. The way it is now you can sell your disc based games (although you'd be buying yours digitally to avoid all the hassles you point out in your post) to ANYONE other than Gamestop if you like. Thereby eliminating your hated Gamestop. |
The point my friend, is what you think you lost you actually gained in CHOICE and choice is empowering for a consumer.
On a side note I do not see why they absolutely had to do away with the whole "family sharing" other than to punish consumers for forcing them to switch their DRM policy. PS3 users know that we have been able to share digital content on different PS3 for years. Although since 2011 the number of allowed systems has dropped from 5 to 2 but it was still there.
