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yes 29 47.54%
 
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not bothered 15 24.59%
 
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-Skyline on 27 May 2013

You're still not going to be able to borrow any games from your friends!



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-Skyline on 27 May 2013
sales2099 said:
No fee. Got it.

Now we know you can trade in games, kinect can be turned off in privacy settings, and now no used game fee.

Now its just the "1 per day online check-in", and the "can't lend games to a friend" cons.

Cmon, MS, your doing great!


Does your self-respect depend on it or something?



sales2099 on 27 May 2013
-Skyline said:
sales2099 said:
No fee. Got it.

Now we know you can trade in games, kinect can be turned off in privacy settings, and now no used game fee.

Now its just the "1 per day online check-in", and the "can't lend games to a friend" cons.

Cmon, MS, your doing great!


Does your self-respect depend on it or something?

Don't see what your problem is. 3 out of 5 major cons are addressed. This is good news.



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sales2099 on 27 May 2013
-Skyline said:

You're still not going to be able to borrow any games from your friends!

Either Sony is doing this too, or MS has 6 months to change this policy. At the VERY fast rate they are addressing their cons, I am not worried at all. The backlash seems to be working.



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UltimateUnknown on 27 May 2013

What do they mean by no fee?

As it is right now, your game is tied to your LIVE account through a one time use code that you get with your copy of the game. If you give this game to another person then they have to pay the full price to play the game on their LIVE account. That part has been clarified already. Where does this fee come from? Does this refer to some kind of charge on top of the full price of the game?

Or does it mean that your game is not going to be tied to your account and anyone can play a used game, exactly like it is right now.

The only way they are answering the problem is if the latter is the case. Other than that I don't know what this "fee" is all about. They're just either deliberately trying to confuse people or doing a poor job at explaining things with all these conflicting reports.



 

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michael_stutzer on 27 May 2013
sales2099 said:
-Skyline said:

You're still not going to be able to borrow any games from your friends!

Either Sony is doing this too, or MS has 6 months to change this policy. At the VERY fast rate they are addressing their cons, I am not worried at all. The backlash seems to be working.

The backlash which you and some other guys on this website were making fun of since the reveal.



sales2099 on 27 May 2013
Kyuu said:
sales2099 said:
No fee. Got it.

Now we know you can trade in games, kinect can be turned off in privacy settings, and now no used game fee.

Now its just the "1 per day online check-in", and the "can't lend games to a friend" cons.

Cmon, MS, your doing great!


Nobody said Kinect is always-on, I think that'd be illegal. But Microsoft is confusing the hell out of us I can tell you that LOL. Or perhaps Phil Harrison is doing Sony's work if you know what I mean :P

Ya....I really don't like that guy. His PR statements were always bad.



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Alby_da_Wolf on 29 May 2013
sales2099 said:
Kyuu said:
sales2099 said:
No fee. Got it.

Now we know you can trade in games, kinect can be turned off in privacy settings, and now no used game fee.

Now its just the "1 per day online check-in", and the "can't lend games to a friend" cons.

Cmon, MS, your doing great!


Nobody said Kinect is always-on, I think that'd be illegal. But Microsoft is confusing the hell out of us I can tell you that LOL. Or perhaps Phil Harrison is doing Sony's work if you know what I mean :P

Ya....I really don't like that guy. His PR statements were always bad.

Yep, and this is the problem for MS: even if they remove all the cons, they already shot themselves in their foot with very bad PR, at the same time providing Sony and Nintendo a real world market research about what should not be done with their consoles. Although I wouldn't rule out the possibility of Sony making some bad choice anyway, we know they love to shot themselves in the foot even more than MS. 



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S.T.A.G.E. on 29 May 2013

Dont believe it. Phil Spencer admitted it already.