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Xbox One blocks used games. Offline Pass confirmed
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And if Sony does it too, I'll skip them as well.
Trust me, I can live on a Wii U, Vita and a 3DS.
Neuromancer
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Fuck that if true.
Tylahedras
Banned
I imagine there is a CEO from Gamestop reading this at his desk at home while eating a sandwich. When he gets to Phil's statements he softly places his sandwich on it's plate, picks up the phone, waits calmly for someone to answer. When they do he says just three words, "Burn them all."
Knux-Future
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Somebody needs to ask about rental services.
also they need to ask Ja
also they need to ask Ja
castaction
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lol xbox fails
Fine Ham Abounds
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If Sony allows publishers to enforce this on their side as well, there's gonna be a lot of games I will never feel bad to have never played.
Never expected to say this, but the bold new future is making me want to invest in nothing but handhelds.
Yikes... I thought the fee would be around what GameStop charges for new used games ($50-55). This... this is even worse than I thought it would be.
And the sad fucking thing is, if MS is delivering info like this all casually, and if EA got rid of their Online Passes, they probably have absolutely nothing to fear from the Sony side of the fence.
And the sad fucking thing is, if MS is delivering info like this all casually, and if EA got rid of their Online Passes, they probably have absolutely nothing to fear from the Sony side of the fence.
I don't see how it isn't. What they're doing is a cash grab, why would they leave such a big loophole?
Neuromancer
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Yep.
No more lending games to friends, no more borrowing games from the library, no more Redbox, used game prices will plummet.
well lets be serious though, it's a terrible practice but not because of that fee. That fee is buying the game, full stop. the idea that it should be less than the price of the game to get a new copy of the game is ridiculous.
Whats terrible is that if you want to play the game with your friend your friend needs to own the game on his console. The idea that you cant bring a copy over, play for a bit and take that copy back home with you is insane.
NullPointer
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That's going to be hard to pull with a Gold sub in the mix.
Phife Dawg
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Says "They would then have to purchase the right to play that game through Xbox Live."
I read it as they have to purchase the right to play that game through the storefront (XBox Live). Not a native speaker though.
Is that confirmed somewhere?
enigmatic_alex44
Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
"offline pass" LMAO!!!
so in the future if I replace my Xbone but Microsoft has shut down the servers, and has moved on to the Xbox Two or whatever, then all my discs will be useless coasters cuz I can't buy the "codes" that I was never going to in the first place. This is as bad as "digital distribution" in my eyes.
This will be a PS4 and Wii U only gen for me
so in the future if I replace my Xbone but Microsoft has shut down the servers, and has moved on to the Xbox Two or whatever, then all my discs will be useless coasters cuz I can't buy the "codes" that I was never going to in the first place. This is as bad as "digital distribution" in my eyes.
This will be a PS4 and Wii U only gen for me
MikeE21286
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Will they tie the accounts to one (or several) system. Can I not just login somewhere else and re download? Like Steam?
Hahahaha no way. That's making it just like nintendo. It wouldn't make sense. That would be too much!
If nothing else it explains why they ditched Nintendo the way they did. Jesus...
Neuromancer
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Well if only one account could ever be online at a time it's not that big of a loophole. Its the way XBLA games work already. Shitty that we're talking about a disc here but, hey.
Little Green Yoda
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R.I.P. Gamestop
BloodMoney
Banned
nail in coffin
I don't even really buy used games, but I do like to hop around to my friends' apartments with games and stuff. I've loved my 360, but this kind of anti-consumer attitude kind of blows. Hopefully Sony doesn't do this too.
/Aegon
/Aegon
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
I'm fairly sure they will relax this anti consumer approach before the console comes to market. Or Harrison just doesn't know what he is talking about and made a bad statement. Microsoft is idiotic sometimes, but they aren't this stupid.
And if they are, and Sony does not follow suit with similar policies, then MS deserves the massive trampling they are about to receive by Sony this generation. I mean seriously, do they not know their own userbase?
And if they are, and Sony does not follow suit with similar policies, then MS deserves the massive trampling they are about to receive by Sony this generation. I mean seriously, do they not know their own userbase?
Vincent Alexander
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Welp, here's your chance, Sony. Microsoft has tossed you an easy one. You don't even have to, do anything amazing. Just don't do anything as fucking stupid and you're gold.
Lee Chaolan
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I was feeling meh about the console after the press conference, not totally dismissing it.
After this news now? Wow, yeah, good luck Microsoft.
After this news now? Wow, yeah, good luck Microsoft.
NullPointer
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For serious.
MarauderShields
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Thats my guess. I will hold off on getting my torch and pitchfork.
Dave Meltzer
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Do you guys think Steam is anti-consumer?
This is the way things have been going for years. I don't get the big deal. Trading in physical media is going to be dead before you know it.
This is the way things have been going for years. I don't get the big deal. Trading in physical media is going to be dead before you know it.
AstroNut325
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LOL... called it! Lend a game to someone... $60 please!
Just think of it as a new game.
Ramocalypse
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Seeing as all major EA games will undoubtedly be on PS4 also, and EA just eliminated their online passes...
I think we can all put 2 and 2 together here.
Alec
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Love it. Read it as "Ecks-bone".
Schobeleth
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If you really need to pay the cost of the original game - WOW. I have no words after that. Just.... wow...
ZedIndyLil
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I can't wrap my head around how this is going to work if MSFT does this unilaterally. Otherwise it will simply be cheaper (sometimes massively so) to get the PS4 version.
You aren't lending because once they pay that fee you'll both be able to play the game. It isn't that there is a fee for lending, it is that lending is impossible.
Phife Dawg
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Steam gets away with it because I can get like 6 great games for 60 bucks, not happening in the console space.
If Sony isn't doing it they should come out right now and say so, they couldn't ask for better publicity at this point. We're all pissed at MS and they could come in riding a shining Pegasus to save us all. That they aren't doing so is a little concerning.
Microsoft just shot themselves in the foot.
I dont know how much the rest of you know about the gaming culture (Im an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. Its not like it is in America where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over world wide, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.
What this means is the gaming public all over the world, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase the Xbox One, nor will they purchase any of Microsofts other games. This is HUGE (like Xbox). You can laugh all you want, but Microsoft has alienated an entire market with this move.
Microsoft, publicly apologize and make those second hand games playable on other people's consoles or you can kiss your business goodbye.
I dont know how much the rest of you know about the gaming culture (Im an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. Its not like it is in America where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over world wide, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.
What this means is the gaming public all over the world, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase the Xbox One, nor will they purchase any of Microsofts other games. This is HUGE (like Xbox). You can laugh all you want, but Microsoft has alienated an entire market with this move.
Microsoft, publicly apologize and make those second hand games playable on other people's consoles or you can kiss your business goodbye.
computers putin'
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I forgot about the reveal lol. I already figured this was gonna happen, the rumors were just too persistent, So I took the Xbox clean off of my radar. Still, I was hoping to be pleasantly surprised when I did hear news, instead every awful rumor has come true, except for always online; and I bet the Xbox One did have always online as a feature at one point, but it was scrapped after the negative response.
I thought that at first but it lines up with EA dropping project 10.
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