**XBOX ONE** Official Thread

I'm amazed they have backtracked like that, must go down as one of the biggest back tracks in gaming history.

Kudos, but it just highlights what a ridiculous proposition it was in the first place.
 
Macro said:
Keep in mind it would have let you play the entire game catalogue of 10 friends as well, i'd say that was a pretty good thing.
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i still dont get this, how would the games publishers be happy to lose potentially (worst case) 90% of sales, surely this was never gonna work?
 
macca672 said:
i still dont get this, how would the games publishers be happy to lose potentially (worst case) 90% of sales, surely this was never gonna work?
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I'm not sure either. If my mates had games I wanted to play I'd just buy them a pint and get it for free. Reckon they would've restricted it far more than they let on.
 
macca672 said:
i still dont get this, how would the games publishers be happy to lose potentially (worst case) 90% of sales, surely this was never gonna work?
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MS hadn't released full details on how it would work, so there was a lot of speculation about it (like you could only play the SP part of another person's shared game). It looked a fabulous idea in theory, but MS have no ditched it and we never got to find out the full story, which is a shame.
 
I was at an MS licensing event today in Cardinal Place and this came up in conversation. There were strong hints to this, but didn't think it would be so soon....
 
That was released, you could only play SP, but that's no different to current physical games either, nearly all are locked to an account or need a disc to play MP.
 
StriderX said:
Better go save the presidents daughter!
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I currently have her, I'm waiting for her to be lost again for the umpteenth time, I enjoy it more when I don't have to protect her :D

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I'm looking forward to being in this thread in another week or so when hopefully the discussion will be back on the games we all want to play, rather than the policies in place.
 
macca672 said:
i still dont get this, how would the games publishers be happy to lose potentially (worst case) 90% of sales, surely this was never gonna work?
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I suppose that was the pay off for the move to digital which would let the publisher get a bigger slice of the first sale revenue (no packaging, distribution and retail to pay/take a slice) and DRM to cut down on massive piracy. More of a instead of trying to fight piracy, allow limited copying offset by a slightly better initial return on investment thing.
 
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