"The Games With Gold program on Xbox 360 has been successful for us," Spencer said. "It's been part of the value people see in [Xbox Live] Gold, something we recognize that isn't on Xbox One that isn't there today. We haven't announced a plan, but people should understand that we understand the expectation that people have around what the value on Xbox One Gold should be. It might not look exactly the way things have looked in the past, but the recognition that that form of content and that perk for being a Gold subscriber is important to people, something we definitely hear."

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/456592/xbox-one-games-with-gold-service-may-differ-from-360/

I predict that they will make it a 'rental service' like PS+ in order to offer better games. lets face it, the only games you were going to get free on a permanent license were the ones which are really old and you can pick up for less than £5 pre-owned (assuming it even is a retail title that they are giving you). e.g this months is hitman which you can get in the UK for £4 pre-owned. The same game was PS+ 10 months ago...

Thats my prediction anyway.

The PS Plus system is certainly much much better even if its only renting games. I get annoyed when people point out that games with gold are kept forever and not just rented. Its a dumb excuse cause we get such old/bad games. I'd rather rent relatively new games than keep old games that I'll never play again after one playthrough. So I really hope Games with Gold turns into a rental service similar to PS Plus.

Well off the top of my head dead raising 2 was available a few months ago and at best you can get that for 20 US pre-owned.

I hope they keep the plan of keeping the games you get. I don´t likethe idea of loosing a bunch of games the moment I don´t subscribe anymore.

I also wonder what happens to Games with Gold on the Xbox 360 when it comes to Xbox One. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft will stop doing Games with Gold on Xbox 360 at that point.

I don't get to play often so it would take a long time for me to finish a game typically so a rental system would be horrible for me.

If you want that, fine. But just remember: you'll always get inferior content than the content PS+.

They just now realised that PS+ is a better deal? Or are they trying to make the xbone more enticing?

Probably talking about giving indies or smaller games like what the PS4 has been doing. This early in on a new system you can't just give away 6 month old AAA games.

Maybe, but they give away one arcade game each month as it is, so that really isnt different.  Im sure it is like the op said where they wont be giving the permanent license away.