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WoodenPints said:

shikamaru317 said:

It's kind of funny how alot of the features we were so mad about when Xbox One was first announced, such as always online connection, and DRM that bound a game to a single XBL account and only allowed game ownership transfer at certain retailers and only then if the publisher allowed it, have basically been fed back to us in smaller doses over the course of a whole decade now, and because it was drip fed to us over a decade instead of all at once, alot of us have just grown to accept it. What once enraged large numbers of gamers, now just feels normalcy to many of us. It's kind of insidious honestly.

Funny enough that would be better than we currently get where our digital purchases sit in the hidden game graveyard never to be seen of again.

Yeah, your rights as an owner of a digital game are even less than your ownership rights on physical games would have been on the launch Xbox One model. This push towards an all-digital future definitely worries me. I really wish Xbox and others would look into some kind of digital used game storefront, where you could sell your ownership rights to a digital game to another user, and the publisher of said game would get a cut with you getting the rest. That's more than a publisher gets from a physical used game sale, so they should be happy, while we as users would at least be able to get some money back if we aren't happy with a game or have no plans to replay a certain game in the future.