Microsoft Clarify Family Sharing, Wasn’t Only Demos

[Figgycal]

g911turbo said:

Figgycal said:

I feel like its Microsoft giving the middle finger to the consumer. "Oh you wanted this really awesome feature and you wanted us to take away DRM and let you play used games? Too bad- it was really going to be awesome too. I mean we didn't actually clarify anything about it, but believe us it was going to be great and thanks to you guys, we'll never see it."

If Microsoft really had any faith in this feature, they'd still allow it for digital downloaded games. It makes no sense to take this feature out because they gave up on a vision that most consumers didn't share.

Your post does have a point?  Why don't Sony and Microsoft try to drive us to all digital games  if that is what devs want?  Instead they give us no incentive to go all digital.  WEAK.

Exactly! I hate when publishers complain about the used game market as if it's the devil. You know how to get people to stop buying used games? Make downloading digital versions of that game cheaper. Why would I buy a game that came out a year ago for 40 bucks on psn when I can go to gamestop and get the same game for less than 20? There's no incentive to buy digital titles, but all the incentives to buy used.

That's also part of the reason the Xbox one bothered me at first. They wanted to limit my ability to buy used games- fine but if you're gonna do that , you have to make it so there's some kind of benefit to me. Maybe if they had been clear about family sharing (I believed them at first, but their lack of clarity points to it being BS) , or announced ridiculously low prices on downloaded games- I'd play along.