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

[ethomaz]

Aielyn said:

I don't get it. If it was such a great innovation, couldn't they implement it as an optional thing? As in, you can buy a game either as a "standalone version" or a "license version". The standalone version would work just like games on other platforms do. The license version would install onto your system (as in, no disc required after installation), and would require authentication to play. And then the license version would be sharable as a library, etc.

Then the market would demonstrate which one people preferred.

Indeed, the market would also adjust the prices of the two versions in order to bring things into balance, and we'd find out the true value of each type - perhaps the license version would be judged to be worth 30% less than the standalone version.

They can but I publishers didn't like that.