| badgenome said: Meanwhile, Thurrott is a fucking shill and not some kind of authoritative source on anything. If you read the post where he drops this amazing information, he completely misreads what Microsoft even said. "Look, fellers! UNLIMITED! They said it's unlimited, that makes it not demos!" But he is conflating what MS said other people can do on YOUR console ("unlimited access") with what they said about other people sharing your games (which was merely "access"). Timed trials would be technically be access, so he isn't debunking anything. I'm on the MS hate train, that's true enough. But I'm not trolling or poking fun for once. This shit is alarmingly bad. So much so that, if the industry as a whole adopted it (which it eventually would have if MS had won here), I would be done with it. It would be retro gaming from here on out for me. I'm not going to give one thin dime to people who treat me like a criminal and a moron, and I'm pretty disappointed at how many people are okay with this because of sheer brand loyalty. |
The current xbox digital licensing differentiates the console a game is registered on, so that any account can play those games on that system. ie "unlimited" To play those licenses on a different xbox requires the registered account to sign in to xbox live; a silver account is sufficient. The family accounts would likely have the same limitation and would need to be signed in to xbox live to play the games. The roaming account is expanded to ten roaming accounts. I don't see what's so hard to understand? How is it too good to be true, Sony delivers quality games seemingly for free on PS+ and nobody seems incredulous about it.
I don't find your source authoritative at all; name me a hotshot insider who even leaked the xbox one name? A stopped clock is right twice a day and most of these leaks would be obvious to anyone with half a brain and a keyboard. Xbox family sharing would have been an awesome feature and reading between the lines looking for weasel words to get mad at is just going to send you to an early grave. Because even in the unlikely event that the plain language of the announcement, along with the reassurances of Microsoft insiders were wrong, and a pastebin and a stopped clock were right, we would be NO WORSE OFF than we are now when it comes to digital games.
