| gamesadict said:
EDIT: Do you guys imagine what would have happened had this news been revealed before they decided to pull the 180? Judging from the way many people were excited about family sharing, I could only have expected a massive meltdown, actually, I can't even think of a proper word that wouldn't still be an understatement of what would have happened. |
The whole thing was strange. It seems that the biggest mistake MS did this entire Xbone reveal was being ambiguous. They tell us one thing then say something slightly different somewhere else, one PR man says something, another says something slightly different.
Even this sharing thing was like it was made up as they go, they had a vision for it but it didn't make sense. They wanted to control used game sales but were happy to allow people to just share games freely with pretty much anyone. It was a contridiction. Then only after they remove it, do they reveal it was only a 'demo' as such, to give a friend/family member a chance to see what the game is like. Can you imagine this second option in a household? A father buys his 2 sons a game, the first son registers it to his account and they think they can both play it. But the 2nd son can in reality only play it for an hour before it times out and wants him to buy an entire new version of the game. It's the same house with the same game, you'd have to buy 2 copies of a game for 1 machine.
But this makes me wonder, at one point I heard a rumour that MS was allowing XBoxLive to be done much like a parent child system, where by the main account pays the subscription and any (up to 5 I heard) users attached to that main account (child accounts) could access Xbox Live without paying a fee, unlike the current generation which is based on each user paying. So a dad could pay the subscription and each of his children, including if they aren't even living in the same house (away at Uni for example) could access and play on Xbox Live. Anyway, was this part of their sharing vision? If so is that now removed? So in order to make up for the fact they are allowing used games, they will now charge every user who wants to use XboxLive a fee, which could mean 3 people in a household or more?
Hmm, pie.
