A Vocal Minority Of Idiots (& Journalists) Ruin Innovations On The Xbox One

[SvennoJ]

The Fury said:

ryuzaki57 said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't the 10-person share program have been more lethal for publishers than used/lending games?

Consider this : I don't necessarily have 10 friends near me to lend games to, but if people can share games via the xboxlive, wouldn't they be organizing themselves on forums/websites so that only one person out of ten has to purchase the game? This would be an instant disaster on software sales!

The more I notice users here mention it, the more I think publishers and developers noticed it and shall we say 'had words with MS'. There was no reason to remove the feature for downloaded digital games only, it would be easy to recognise those over disc games, so why remove it? Unless there was a sudden amount of pressure from developers.

Exactly. No point in getting pissed off over what we never had. It was nothing more then a bunch of promisses at this stage. The family share plan only came to light after the initial reaction to DRM, together with waiving 2nd hand sales fees.
It all felt like MS was making it up as time went on, no clear message, no advertising of this great feature on E3.

Next to publishers, big retail chains most likely weren't happy with this new development either. We'll throw all second hand sales to you, but wait, now everyone can keep their games to share with 10 others.