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bigd615 said: I agree some "concerns" are probably because it is Microsoft, however there are legitimate concerns besides that. You say there wasn't an uproar when PS did this with 5 games. Well they actually did it with 5 games an It didn't work! They quickly cut it down to 2. That is the very reason that many people don't think it's 10 complete games. If publishers wouldn't allow 5 free copies, then why the heck would they allow 10?! And I don't believe the only 1 copy at a time thing would deter most people. Maybe those that just play COD or only 1 or 2 games, but most people, here at least, have dozens of games that they play. I'm sure they would go without playing a specific game for a little while to not have to spend as much money. Finally, your last paragraph, I completely agree. However, I'm personally curious as to what exactly it was and how they expected it to work. I don't believe it is a feasible business plan and would have liked to see what actually happened with it. |
It didn't work on the PS as there was nothing there to restrict usage. Friends needed your account information to download the games onto their PS and all 5 people could play any portion of the game without any sort of restrictions. That is why it didn't work. Now would the MS version work better since there were restrictions placed on it. Who knows? Maybe, maybe not.
A lot of people have a lot of different games they play at one time. It doesn't mean they wouldn't prefer to play online game along with their friends. MS has a lot of data through Xbox LIVE. I doubt that they just threw this plan together willy nilly. They used that data to attempt to formulate something that would work. Like I said, we do not know how well it would have worked. I would have been interested in seeing it.
It may not have been feasible, then again it could have worked out great. Unless they actually proceed with it sometime in the future, I guess we will not know.
