It's something that you usually get for example in Bigfish games.This seems really werid? Why even have an hour limit in the first place then - to get money from lazy people or the uninformed?
Too bad I don't have a family. Fuck you, Microsoft.
1 hour of unabridged gameplay which is saved is better than a restricted demo.
Honestly, how can anyone trust current leadership at MS?
Complete and utter deception.
Uncharted 3 = 43.5GB File
I'm not DLing and Installing (need another 43.5GB allocation) just so I can try it for 1 fucking hour, it's pointless
What the hell do you think next-gen games were going to be? 5-8 GB's?
Yeah I'll DL Halo 5 @40GB and play for a hour, yeah I hear Halo is something special!
Bandwith caps be damned!
Uncharted 3 = 43.5GB File
I'm not DLing and Installing (need another 43.5GB allocation) just so I can try it for 1 fucking hour, it's pointless
What the hell do you think next-gen games were going to be? 5-8 GB's?
Yeah I'll DL Halo 5 @40GB and play for a hour, yeah I hear Halo is something special!
Bandwith caps be damned!
Next gen consoles will allow you to play while it's downloading, so it probably make sense
Buy digitalThat's the thing. I was one of those thinking it was the good version, because frankly, it was made to sound that way.
Ragging on people who were simply accepting what they were hearing isn't fair (not saying you were).
I'll still miss discless gaming though. That was my number one feature I was looking forward to.
No reason for them to drop this, due to dropping DRM, except out of passive aggressive spite.
Next gen consoles will allow you to play while it's downloading, so it probably make sense
Yeah, it was incredibly misleading. Going back and reading that interview you can see him conveniently side stepping the question with typical shady PR talk. No hard answers. What an ass.That's the thing. I was one of those thinking it was the good version, because frankly, it was made to sound that way.
Ragging on people who were simply accepting what they were hearing isn't fair (not saying you were).
I'll still miss discless gaming though. That was my number one feature I was looking forward to.
Yea I fail to see any real reason why future owners couldn't, and shouldn't, have this feature. Used games wouldn't open any flood gates here.It really is bizarre. Unless they come out and clarify their reasons or someone here can come up with something logical, spite is the only way I am able to interpret it.
Buy digital
Problem solved
Uncharted 3 = 43.5GB File
I'm not DLing and Installing (need another 43.5GB allocation) just so I can try it for 1 fucking hour, it's pointless
What the hell do you think next-gen games were going to be? 5-8 GB's?
Yeah I'll DL Halo 5 @40GB and play for a hour, yeah I hear Halo is something special!
Bandwith caps be damned!
Microsoft exceeded expectations... in this being something with little to no value whatsoever. I at least thought it would be the ability to lend your library to one other person, who could play a different game from you concurrently.
This glorified demo/marketing scheme... I don't even.
I'm just laughing my ass off at people who thought they'd be able to split the cost of games between 10 people and all play different games simultaneously. People who talked about it being the #gamechanger that made all of the DRM and no real lending, unrestricted resale or gifting. The "this is the future" "get with the times" "this is worth it" people.
Just lol.
And the kicker is that even without all the DRM and restrictions they could still implement this scheme.
Suicide by PR?I wish they unveiled this before they scrapped drm
I would die of laughter
There's no way this is true. Otherwise, they wouldn't have limited it to one user accessing the shared library at a time.
Hell, they wouldn't limit it to 10 family members. What would be the point? If they're just demos, let your entire friends list access it.
You guys are freaking out about something that isn't true. Anyone with a shred of logical thinking should see this.
Hey, look, it's on pastebin and its written with some degree of competence, it must be true.
Can't believe people actually believe this stuff, but hey I guess whatever helps you sleep at night.
The source to this article is pastebin! Are you kidding me people? This is nothing more than some posters stupid story to get attention.
Where's my Prince of Persia CBoaT?
Hey, I loved the Halo trailer but I want a PoP 2008 follow-up!
Jim Sterling said this on twitter.So did the press pick up this story? People need to know how good this feature really was.
Jim Sterling said this on twitter.
Won't cover it tell more concert proof in his eyes.
Next gen consoles will allow you to play while it's downloading, so it probably make sense
I haven't seen X1 info, I might have missed it
How hilarious would've been, the file hasn't fully DL'ed yet your 1 hour is up LOL
Totally reasonable.
Sweeping it under the rug. Bad press is something MS can't afford right now, and keeping this plan would require detailing it to the media, which would in turn expose how much of a horseshit fest that was their initial vision, which would pretty muh kill all the good press they got from backpedalling.No reason for them to drop this, due to dropping DRM, except out of passive aggressive spite.
The people trying to discredit CBOAT are hilarious. Cry harder!
Special props to Deadly Cyclone for trying to attack CBOAT on one of the very, very few rumors he was wrong on. You get a D for effort.
Jim Sterling said this on twitter.
Won't cover it tell more concert proof in his eyes.
Wow, people are saying this is responsible journalism?
Uh, MS has proven time and time again that "straight from the company mouth" is a bold faced lie.
You want the truth, you go to buttocks.
Thats truthfacts.
you know ps4 games can be played while they get downloaded (and you can choose between SP and MP download) and there is gaikai too
Ok MS has no features like this but yeahe... mhhh... yeahe you are right when it comes to X1 xD
is this confirmed for X1?
Wow, people are saying this is responsible journalism?
Uh, MS has proven time and time again that "straight from the company mouth" is a bold faced lie.
You want the truth, you go to buttocks.
Thats truthfacts.
If the video game press were "real" journalists, imagine how theyd cover watergate!
"These files are interesting and all, but I think we'll trust the white house pr on this one"
Wow, people are saying this is responsible journalism?
Uh, MS has proven time and time again that "straight from the company mouth" is a bold faced lie.
You want the truth, you go to buttocks.
Thats truthfacts.
If the video game press were "real" journalists, imagine how theyd cover watergate!
"These files are interesting and all, but I think we'll trust the white house pr on this one"
This is almost the same as PS+ trials, the only difference is that MS was toying with multiple sessions instead of just one 60 minute trial
you can download and play for XB1... it was confirmed.
Not to discredit him as he is clearly an insider and knows what he leaks, but he was 'wrong' before on Dead Rising 3 as well. It ended up getting scooped up and took way longer to reveal than he anticipated, which just shows that in the gaming industry a lot can change quickly to even throw insider info off. He said ME3 and PoP were at the MS conference, neither were, and PoP didn't show up at all. But I'm sure it exists like he said.
The xbox one originally WAS always online, then after orth was made 24 hours. So I have no doubt that at one point the game share was 60 minutes, but the vaugeness from MS seems more to me that they were still figuring if they should expand the feature as it was the one thing that people liked the sound of. But it all got dropped now anyway, likely due to preorders.
I'm not questioning cboat who in this matter is almost certainly correct. But if you are a journalist you need a respectable source. Keep in mind that Jim didn't say that he didn't believe this, just that he wouldn't report it.