hint: bundled games, indie games, first party games made for that purpose (cheap to make) or they'll take the lost on the first few games unlike the X1 which will throw away new games all gen. anyway I don't want to derail the thread no more jaywood might bitch about it. Enjoy your day

Not to be "that guy" but the family share model will never come back...ever, without some extremely creative pricing model involved. (Read: expensive)

MS is not going to give 10 people access to a game for a single paid purchase. Third parties would boycott, and every game would be a gamble at making profit. In all liklihood, the best explanation there is for the linked 'announcement', is that they're using "potential" to sell the system.

They made no guarantee, no time frame, no specifics, and are hiding behind a throw-away excuse of "we don't want to confuse anyone". If they really wanted to bring back family share, and nothing else, they could do it for digital, and they should announce IMMEDIATELY. The 10 person family share was a HUGE deal. Fuck leaving customers confused. Such a feature needs to be confirmed NOW.

But that won't happen. The only explanation is that it never will without all of the drm that came with it, plus some. You could argue that maybe MS hasn't announced because they don't "need it as a feature" yet, but preorders and fucking giving away a huge franchise game (fifa) would beg to differ.

You do realize you can remotely whipe Sony consoles online?  You have to do them all at once, but it's not hard to switch the consoles back to active.

@OP

This works out better for me.  There's quite a few times when I wanted to just login play games on another PS3 and then not care if I don't login again.  But I couldn't' do that since the two PS3 slots were taken my two at home.

Wait....I could share digital games on my PS3?

Huh.

Anyway, this is the status quo for digital content, period, so who cares? DRM is expected with digital content. It's PHYSICAL DRM that people had issue with.

Just a correction there. That was 2 years ago.

I have to apologize to the community. Its people like me who abused the system Sony had on the PS3 that forced them to make these changes.

Even when they knocked down the number of PS3 you can share with. You just need to deactivate the account on one console and activate it on another and share the games/add-ons that way.

I must confess me and my buddies saved a lot of money this way. There was even a popular Forum that we go to, dedicated for account sharing. ^^;;

All sins can be forgiven. All you need to do is forward some money to my personal PayPal account and you'll be on your way..

Isn't this to be expected?

For reference on my 360 I can download to two machines: The system it was originally downloaded to, and the main system I play it on. Theres a loophole of sorts that ANY can play the game on the system the original game was downloaded on, but if you play using other gamertags MS frowns upon it, and I have even heard of people getting banned for playing the same digital copy on both consoles (though rare) so It's not exactly a risk I would take.

You can always re-download the title to any other system if your system breaks. You can always play a copy at a friends house if your signed into your profile and they would be required to purchase the title once your signed out.

Makes sense...

I've always wondered how the 360 handled it exactly. I have two 360s. One in the bedroom that I use as the Master console. The one in the livingroom is the secondary. I've always thought that no matter what console you originally download to, the Master console will always hold the rights. Which would mean no online checks needed.