The Glade 4.0

I want to trade and resell my downloaded games, too. But yeah, that infographic otherwise represents a paradigm I'm okay with. I'm not sure whether Microsoft can convince the publishers to go with a two-tiered pricing structure and whatnot, though, so I fear that even if we communicate this message to Microsoft, we may have **** our chance to have the left column, now.

I'm not sure why you guys think there would be a lower price point. Yes, they could feasibly have a lower price point, but they haven't done so yet with the 360. Why would they suddenly start?

That's pretty much the case. It's an amazing joke, now, and my fury at the Sony-driven and Sony-generated media backlash is that consoles now stagnate for another cycle while Microsoft plans an exit strategy and we go back to a Sony only world.

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

I'm totally cool with not trading/selling downloaded games. Part and parcel of the quicker, easier delivery (and theoretically lower price point).

Losing the shared library is a huge blow, IMO, to the Xbox. Very disappointing. I would have rather kept the 24 hour checkins.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

First is family sharing, this feature is near and dear to me and I truly felt it would have helped the industry grow and make both gamers and developers happy. The premise is simple and elegant, when you buy your games for Xbox One, you can set any of them to be part of your shared library. Anyone who you deem to be family had access to these games regardless of where they are in the world. There was never any catch to that, they didn't have to share the same billing address or physical address it could be anyone. When your family member accesses any of your games, they're placed into a special demo mode. This demo mode in most cases would be the full game with a 15-45 minute timer and in some cases an hour. This allowed the person to play the game, get familiar with it then make a purchase if they wanted to.

When the time limit was up they would automatically be prompted to the Marketplace so that they may order it if liked the game. We were toying around with a limit on the number of times members could access the shared game (as to discourage gamers from simply beating the game by doing multiple playthroughs). but we had not settled on an appropriate way of handling it. One thing we knew is that we wanted the experience to be seamless for both the person sharing and the family member benefiting. There weren't many models of this system already in the wild other than Sony's horrendous game sharing implementation, but it was clear their approach (if one could call it that) was not the way to go. Developers complained about the lost sales and gamers complained about overbearing DRM that punished those who didn't share that implemented by publishers to quell gamers from taking advantage of a poorly thought out system. We wanted our family sharing plan to be something that was talked about and genuinely enjoyed by the masses as a way of inciting gamers to try new games.

What a whiny *****. It's not technically difficult to implement something like family sharing, and it is certainly not philosophically predicated on any sort of always on/monitored/surveilled client/server interaction. I expect this sort of behavior from 8-year-olds on the playground.

I don't know where you got the impression that they'd be "ad-riddled." Just because they ask you to buy the game doesn't make it a giant advertisement. Hearing about the sharing time limitations definitely makes me feel less bad about losing it though.

I don't know where you got the impression that they'd be "ad-riddled." Just because they ask you to buy the game doesn't make it a giant advertisement. Hearing about the sharing time limitations definitely makes me feel less bad about losing it though.

I agree it's disappointing, but the original assumptions of ours were probably out of line as well. It's crazy to think that MS would offer us the ability to stream entire games from the cloud that someone else purchased all without time limit or calls to buy it yourself. If I bought a single player game and shared it with nine of you, and you could all play it unlimitedly and to completion, game developers would go out of business en masse.

Yes, it's a travesty that the forward progress that came with a free lifetime subscription to abuse and invasion was stopped by those assholes on the Internet.

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