Phil Spencer Promises Xbox One Family Sharing Is Still on the Roadmap; Explains Challenges Holding it Back

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Xenostar said:
They never outlined how this would work to begin with, so im sceptical this will ever be what people are hoping it will. 3rd party publishers aren't going to agree to have unlimited lending of games to anyone on your friends list.

Gamers will have hundreds of online friends, no where near the same as real life friends that can borrow a disk.

For example steam is limited to 5 friends, and any game that requires a 3rd party key wont work, so im guessing that rules out all UPlay games.

When Family Sharing was first mentioned MS never game specific details.  This allowed people to assume it was unlimited lending to everyone on your friends list, as many times as you liked for all games.  Microsoft said nothing to contradict these rumors, since they were scrapping the idea anyway.

People are bound to complain because there WILL be limits placed on what games can be shared, how many times, and for how long.  Ulitmately, this is a way for publishers to eliminate trade-ins and resales where they get no money from the transaction, so they do have a large incentive to work with MS on this feature and encourage people to just buy digital.

No they actually said it could be up to 10 friends who have been on your friends list for at least 30 days. As of other details they didn't go too deep into it because they changed the policy. So there was no point in talking about something that they were taking away.