Exactly people could use this to try a game out and if they enjoy it they can go buy it since having to work around all 10 people just to play a game could get annoying

From the article:

"The only limitation, it seems, is that only one person can be playing the shared copy of a single game at any given time."

So no, this doesn't give Microsoft an advantage. If I want to lend my friend Halo 5 to play the campaign, they need to be on my friends list for 30 days + they have to download the whole game + they can only play it when I'm not playing it. It's convoluted/complicated.

does it not just mean 10 people can play a game disc you borrow to them? still a positive opposed to none

1. They don't have access to your account. This is actual game sharing, this isn't sharing like on PS3 where you literally hand your account over to someone else.

2. Of course they'd need to be downloaded.

3. As opposed to disc-based sharing, where when you give your disc to a friend not only can the other people in the group not access that game but neither can you. At least in this set up with one purchase you can play the game along with a friend.

The feature is amazing from the sound of it. Not surprised that you're downplaying it though.

Are you kidding...having limited acess to a whole game for free is huge...and it's not just one game...it's your whole library

1. Good.

2. Yeah, which is a hassle.

3. Only one person can play it at a time. Read the last paragraph in the OP. "The only limitation, it seems, is that only one person can be playing the shared copy of a single game at any given time."

The feature would be amazing if it wasn't so complicated and hard to explain. Not surprisng you're praising it though.

But surely I have 10 friends, they will have 10 different friends, surely this would get out of control very very quickly.

Not knocking it, just dont understand it. The whole point of online was to prevent people from abusing multiple copies, so have we gone from - 1 hr to 10 people on my friends list? Confused.

The 30 days thing you're referring to is the ability to give a game to a friend. You give him the disc and it's gone from your library. This is family sharing. It's not the same thing. Though, the 30 days thing might still apply to a person being qualified to be added to your family list. Which makes sense for the publishers.

This won't stand in its current form. Or if if does then third parties will see game sales fall faster than piracy or used games could possibly make them.

I think those friends will all have to be part of the same family group, so it wouldn't be quite that insane.