S.T.A.G.E. said:
VanceIX said:
I actually have a PS4 and not an Xbox One, but if you followed the news then you would realize that discs could still be sold. You could even share games with friends through a family sharing service.
Some parts I didn't agree with, like internet checks and mandatory Kinect, which pushed me to go PlayStation instead of Xbox, but the used game policy was not one of them. To each his own though.
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No...not at all. You have it wrong. MS was going to pay wall used games. You could not borrow your friends games nor buy them used freely. If you wanted to play a friends game you have to go to their house. The sharing was implemented so you could share with anyone in the house. This was MS idea of paying people back for paywalling used games when they know gamers today are mostly dependent on it. If this was a mistake, Gamestops stock price would've never dropped when MS was called out about it. MS never revealed this themselves largely to the media. One journalist spoke to an MS employee and he admitted all fo the facts and the internet blew up some time after MS revealed the Xbox One to a less than mild reaction because of its lack of focus on games. Even before that Microsoft never said a word to anyone about the DRM until the Adam Orth fiasco about always online. MS fired Adam Orth and disassociated themselves from him to save face for the sake of PR when he was arguing with the fans about DRM.
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Really Stage you need to get your information straight and stop guessing. Pretty much eveything you just stated is incorrect. First and formost if you went to a friend house, you could play any game you have in your collection on their console and they could also play those games as well. If you added your friend to your Friends and Family then they can play any game in your collection regardless if they are on your console or theirs. If you wanted to trade your games, then you can trade or sell the game. Ms took nothing from trades or sells. MS stated that their games would all be sellable and tradeable, for 3rd party publishers and developers they cold op in or out.
MS fired Adam Orth because he insulted gamers as a representive of MS. Even if Adam said nothing about Always online he would have got fired because what he did became something people associated with MS as a company not Adam Orth just another employee. People get fired for stuff like that all the time. If you hold a top manager position in a company they insult your consumers and install base you better believe you can be fired for it. Anyway thats a totally different topic
Here is a link to IGN when they posted pretty much all this detail besides the Adam Orth stuff.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/06/microsoft-details-xbox-one-used-games-always-online
