Stinky said:
"Downloaded titles cannot be shared or resold." We had a chance to compromise for a better outcome, now we're stuck with a frankly outmoded way of gaming. |
It's not like DD titles could be resold this generation. Steam has their "game gifting" policy, which is pretty cool for those who manage to end up with multiple licenses of games due to bundle deals, etc. but if there was a way for me to transfer my XBL, PSN or Nintendo network games to other people, I consider myself completely ignorant of this ability. I've installed my PSN account games on consoles that were not mine (which required me to leave my user ID account on those consoles), but those games were still tied to my account; not transferred. "Loaned," not given or sold.
PSN has/had their game license sharing (up to five PSN user accounts) which many users were all too happy to abuse, but I never heard much of this on the XB360.
All MS has to do is make it so that you can access your DD games on other consoles on which your Gamer Tag is installed. Even if they want to make it up to 5 or some other arbitrary number. Retail disc games would be the same, but require the physical disc to be in the drive, more or less the way it already is on the XB360, so one can't have one copy of a game playing on as many consoles as they allow.
On Steam, it's exactly one logged on account at a time. More or less infinite number of installs on separate systems.
I don't think that feature was ever on the XB1 list. If it was, I missed it.
