Microsoft Clarify Family Sharing, Wasn’t Only Demos

[Madword]

slowmo said:

Madword said:

Don't want to come across as rude, but the only people who are coming across as silly as those who actually believed that MS would allow you to buy 1 copy of a game but share it fully with 10 other people. I know you are a massive MS fan (can tell by how you defend them regardless of what they do).... but you need to try and take the blinkers off.

Publishers would *NOT* have done this. There should be no argument on this point.... and if you agree with that point, then I'm afraid i dont see how this would have ever worked.

Perhaps taking your blinkers off might have helped then too.  Announcing a restricted way to share "demo's" was pointless, why restrict who you can entice to play demos of games, its stupid.  Time to face up, this was the real deal, hopefully they'll find a way to implement the feature on digital sales in the future to prove it was.

I'm guessing you know very little about game development? You do know that game demo's are actually very difficult, time consuming and expensive to produce (think about it for a moment, or do you want me to explain in more detail). So actually providing a limited time demo of a full (polished) game is actually a very sensible idea (and is great for publishers). I don't dismiss that as an actual idea, its actually quite smart...  but saying you can have a single game with 10 people accessing it fully with no restrictions... is not smart.

So actually you see, having restricted demos isnt actually pointless....