[XB1] Official Xbox One Thread

[jms493]

Only being able to resell or lend your games ONE time is laughable. And what is all this "family account" stuff? Let me guess, you need to pay extra for that?

You right dumb as shit..they should just said fuck used games on this box.

There is no more family accounts. If your a member of xbox live gold you can have 10 sub accounts and they all have access to your all your games anywhere anytime. Therefore if my son comes to your house...he can download a copy of Forza 5 and play it on your xbox.

 

[CrimsonGhost56]

You right dumb as shit..they should just said fuck used games on this box.

There is no more family accounts. If your a member of xbox live gold you can have 10 sub accounts and they all have access to your all your games anywhere anytime. Therefore if my son comes to your house...he can download a copy of Forza 5 and play it on your xbox.

seems like it would just be easier to pop in a disk then to download a multi-GB game file

 

[jms493]

What I want to know is the friends thing...supposedly if you are on my friends list for more than 30 days and are in my inner circle the friend can have access to any of my games and vice versa.

 

[jms493]

seems like it would just be easier to pop in a disk then to download a multi-GB game file

yes it would very much be easier....except then I would not be able to play Forza at home if he took my disc.

 

[Twigg4075]

You right dumb as shit..they should just said fuck used games on this box.

There is no more family accounts. If your a member of xbox live gold you can have 10 sub accounts and they all have access to your all your games anywhere anytime. Therefore if my son comes to your house...he can download a copy of Forza 5 and play it on your xbox.

How sure are you about that? Because that interview Handle posted with Angry Joe and Major Nelson, Major kept saying the other people on the account could download and "try" the game. He specifically said "try" like four times during that interview. I'd be willing to bet that just means they get a timed trial of some sort, not full and complete access to the game. I hope I'm wrong but why would he keep wording it that way?

 

[Twigg4075]

Assuming this is true this family thing doesn't sound too bad. It basically sounds like what Sony is currently doing with downloadable games. But keep in mind this is just info from some random dude after speaking with a MS store representative.

http://slumz.boxden.com/f13/xbox-one-family-share-plan-clarification-1939418/

 

[KNUBB]

Assuming this is true this family thing doesn't sound too bad. It basically sounds like what Sony is currently doing with downloadable games. But keep in mind this is just info from some random dude after speaking with a MS store representative.

http://slumz.boxden.com/f13/xbox-one-family-share-plan-clarification-1939418/

Twigg when did you start hanging out in the SLUMZ

 

[Garrett67]

VERY Good Video

http://www.gametrailers.com/full-episodes/7wswvp/bonus-round-microsoft-e3-2013---making-the-grade

Not that this was difficult to find amongst the other link under the video, here is the Sony 'Making The Grade'


http://www.gametrailers.com/full-episodes/sn4oxm/bonus-round-sony-e3-2013---making-the-grade

 

[Twigg4075]

Twigg when did you start hanging out in the SLUMZ

That's the first link that came up when I googled 'xbox one family plan'.

 

[jms493]

Yusuf Mehdi confirms borrowing and game sharing for the Xbox One.

So this ties in with the used game policy that Microsoft has created. Bacially when you get your Xbox One you can select up to ten people to add to your "family list" that you want to trade games with. Now the people you add doesn't have to be blood related in anyway, shape, or form. This is just the name of the people you want to trade games with.

This allows those people to download the game and play it... So it's basically letting them borrow the game.

Although this is no different than the classic way of letting people borrow games as more than one person can't play the same game at the sametime it's definitely easier. Now although it's ten people I'm sure it will work out alright as I barely borrow games from a single person so ten is actually a pretty solid number

In theory it sounds great but lets see if it ACTUALLY works.

 

[Garrett67]

In theory it sounds great but lets see if it ACTUALLY works.


Although this is no different than the classic way of letting people borrow games as more than one person can't play the same game at the same time, it's definitely easier.

This is what I wonder. I read that paragraph several times and although it doesn't say you can't play it at the same time (even though there is a comparison to the classic way), I'm sure that there has to be a caveat to it. I can't imagine them
allowing jms to buy a game and then sharing it with 10 of us here and allowing any of us to play said game concurrently.

 

[jms493]

This is what I wonder. I read that paragraph several times and although it doesn't say you can't play it at the same time (even though there is a comparison to the classic way), I'm sure that there has to be a caveat to it. I can't imagine them
allowing jms to buy a game and then sharing it with 10 of us here and allowing any of us to play said game concurrently.

I think I read that only 1 person from your family list can play from your shared games at a time but not including you. Who doesn't say the the publisher puts a restriction on this like EA telling MS you cant share Battlefield 4?

 

[Garrett67]

I think I read that only 1 person from your family list can play from your shared games at a time but not including you. Who doesn't say the the publisher puts a restriction on this like EA telling MS you cant share Battlefield 4?

and really, that is how it should be.

 

[JBauerisGod]

My theory is that the person who buys the game owns the license forever (not including the one trade-in stuff). Then he has the option to share the game with 9 other people in his "family". Once he shares the game with the other person, the other person is the only one allowed to play the game. The original buyer has the option to take the game back whenever.

 

[jms493]

My theory is that the person who buys the game owns the license forever (not including the one trade-in stuff). Then he has the option to share the game with 9 other people in his "family". Once he shares the game with the other person, the other person is the only one allowed to play the game. The original buyer has the option to take the game back whenever.

I disagree. it says that you will ALWAYS be able to play your games regardless of who is playing your shared games.

You can always play your games, but only one of your family members can be playing from your shared library at a given time.

 

[Garrett67]

My theory is that the person who buys the game owns the license forever (not including the one trade-in stuff). Then he has the option to share the game with 9 other people in his "family". Once he shares the game with the other person, the other person is the only one allowed to play the game. The original buyer has the option to take the game back whenever.

I disagree. it says that you will ALWAYS be able to play your games regardless of who is playing your shared games.

Although being able to play your game while someone else is 'borrowing' it is ideal, it really shouldn't be that way.

I agree with JBauer on this. Of course I'd rather be it be an open lending option, but from a developer point of view, they would lose a ton of money.


Am I wrong?

 

[JBauerisGod]

I disagree. it says that you will ALWAYS be able to play your games regardless of who is playing your shared games.

Oh shit I didn't see that. So I'll revise mine to say that you will always be allowed to play your game, but only one other family member can play at the same time. Maybe you still have to choose which person to share with?

 

[PP]

Why doesn't MS come out and state exactly what the deal is? Oh yeah because they are afraid of the backlash.

 

[Garrett67]

Okay, I just read that article, sorry didn't realize what you quoted was from Twiggs link . I can kinda see that working but I can also see someone getting money out of this, like a subscription service or something.


I mean, you could give your game disk to someone before but only one person could play it. So , there has to be a limit or some catch somewhere. I could theoretically let jms buy ALL of the games and I just
play his, right?


Perhaps I 'm still groggy from my nap but I think I'm understand this correctly.

 

[jms493]

Why doesn't MS come out and state exactly what the deal is? Oh yeah because they are afraid of the backlash.

This idea sounds so potentially awesome that it is worrisome why MS would not demo it at E3. My thoughts are that the whole procedure is not fleshed out yet...details are not finalized. THats why we are getting drips and drabs of information.