Microsoft Clarify Family Sharing, Wasn’t Only Demos

[J_Allard]

badgenome said:

J_Allard said:
Like I said when this rumor first appeared.. it makes no sense whatsoever. The only excuse the people bitching could come up with is MS wanted a feature to kind of make you forget about DRM. So how are they going to do that with a worthless demo share feature LOL. And that's after they'd spent weeks marketing and talking it up as if it's a full game share LOL. Yeah, people are going to be perfectly ok with the ability to share demos.

A more likely scenario is the one described on multiple websites since this rumor surfaced. You can share full games just like MS described, there are just restrictions. A limit on how long you can play a title per day. A limit on how much of it you can access. A limit on how much of it you can play before being prompted you buy it. Things that would make publishers happy. But demos.. LOL.

Too bad we'll never know since some gamers are afraid of change.

So, just to be clear, you are calling Greenberg and Whitten liars while mocking people for calling them liars? I believe that's called cognitive dissonance.

Accusing people of being afraid of change is always a cop out. People like change they perceive as good and hate change they perceive as bad, and the Xbone was almost universally perceived as bad. Even if you'd like to dismiss "some gamers" as if they were just a vocal minority, there is no way Microsoft is ripping out the heart of their new system to please some vocal minority. Whatever they saw in terms of preorder numbers and whatever Gamestop told them scared the bejeezus out of them.

Where did I say those guys were lying? What I described are not demos. They are saying it's not demos. MS never got around to announcing restrictions. A game could have all those restrictions I described and yet the service would still not be demos and work "exactly as described" or whatever Whitten said. I don't see where I am calling them liars.

Like I said, some gamers are afraid of change. You can qualify it or explain it away however you want, won't change facts.