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Zizzla_Rachet on 13 June 2013

I felt this deserved its own thread.

http://penny-arcade.com/report/artic...t-some-details

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The idea is that ten people in your family group can all share your games. Think of it like a loaning system, but you're not loaning anyone a phyiscal product. If you're in my family group, you can play my games, and vice versa.

“I think the policy makes sense,” Spencer said. “It’s not ten different people all playing the game concurrently, but when you think about a real usage scenario, and we thought about it around a family, and I know certain people will create a family group of people that aren’t all part of the same family, and I do think that’s an advantage, and people will use that. I saw it on NeoGAF instantly, the Xbox Family creation threads, where people said 'Hey be a part of my family.'”

“No birth certificates will need to be sent in!” Spencer said when I asked if the service required a blood test. “I do think that’s an advantage of the ecosystem that we have.”

So that answers one question: Microsoft doesn't seem to care whether or not the ten people in the group are actually family members. They can be friends, roommates, boyfriends, girlfriends, your dog's groomer… you pick ten people, and you share games with them.

Yusuf Mehdi was intereviewed by Ars Technica and is saying the same thing:

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Since its announcement, there has been some confusion over the details of sharing your Xbox One game library with up to ten "family members." Mehdi couldn't give comprehensive details, but he did clarify some things.

For one, a family member doesn't have to be a "blood relative," he said, eliminating the extremely unlikely possibility that the Xbox One would include a built-in blood testing kit. For another, they don't have to live in the primary owner's house—I could name a friend that lives 3,000 miles away as one of my "family members" Mehdi said.

You'll be able to link other Xbox Live accounts as having shared access to your library when you first set up a system and will also be able to add them later on (though specific details of how you manage these relationships is still not being discussed). The only limitation, it seems, is that only one person can be playing the shared copy of a single game at any given time. All in all, this does sound like a pretty convenient feature that's more workable than simply passing discs around amongst friends who are actually in your area.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/0...game-policies/



 



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techhunter80 on 13 June 2013

I can see people abusing the hell out of this, including me.



J_Allard on 13 June 2013



Play4Fun on 13 June 2013

That's pretty awesome if true.



AndrewWK on 13 June 2013

Ohh thank, they say both the same finally. And this is nice to hear



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sniper989 on 13 June 2013

people complain about used games stopping people from buying games... this could be even worse



secpierre34 on 13 June 2013

 All in all if this is true, I will get an Xbone after my ps4. All I will need is 9 guys willing to buy games evenly amongst ourselves. The Xbone is for the future, the ps4 is the now and I love living in the moment.

PS. (I must point out that sony could easily implement the same thing with their digital titles)
PS for the PS( in fact i will wait a year till i buy the xbone, I just came to realize that sony can do most of what microsoft is doing albeit tv functionalites)



Necromunda on 13 June 2013

Augh, honestly, this isn't going to be anything remotely as they are touting it to be and if anyone thinks otherwise they are absolutely out of their minds IMO.



badgenome on 13 June 2013

Third parties made Sony cut back their game sharing on PS3 from 5 people to 2. I don't see how this will stand. If this really is as it sounds, it's far more detrimental to sales than big, bad used games supposedly are.



Zizzla_Rachet on 13 June 2013
secpierre34 said:
I see a problem though, what if I want to play my game that my friend is also playing as a family friend. When you have a disk you know you can just play it, but when you have the game on your console and you can't, do you become an administrator and stop the other person. All in all if this is true, I will get an Xbone after my ps4. All I will need is 9 guys willing to buy games evenly amongst ourselves. The Xbone is for the future, the ps4 is the now and I love living in the moment.

PS. (I must point out that sony could easily implement the same thing with their digital titles)
PS for the PS( in fact i will wait a year till i buy the xbone, I just came to realize that sony can do most of what microsoft is doing albeit tv functionalites)


"I see a problem though, what if I want to play my game that my friend is also playing as a family friend. When you have a disk you know you can just play it,"

 

No you can't When you buy a game disc only one person can play it...Remember the game disc has to be in the console disc drive so that you can play it...