So earlier today in the 'Paul Thurott: How Microsoft can fix Xbox one', I responded in the thread and posed what I believed would be the best solution for the game sharing and internet issues based on what I knew.
No one I have read since this started has ever posed this idea prior to me doing it earlier today. Here's the portion where I wrote of my idea:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=63832581&postcount=102
Someone on Redditt (shout out to 'veul') clearly read my idea in the Thurott thread and posed it to Major Nelson a couple of hours ago when he was answering questions on there. Here's the question:
Major Nelson's immediate response:
Other responses in the Reddit thread:
The POWER of GAF! This might actually be an effective solution and it came from posting on here.
If Major Nelson convinces the brass to implement this then Micrsoft could go forward on this without actually backtracking on their originsl ideas. You could choose to play games like they are on the 360 and earn achievements, and do whatever you like with your disc, but you wouldn't be able to use the cloud features that MS is promoting.
Like I originally wrote this would squash all of worries that you couldn't play games offline if you didn't have internet and the deployed Navy could play their Xbox One games while deployed if they bought the system.
No one I have read since this started has ever posed this idea prior to me doing it earlier today. Here's the portion where I wrote of my idea:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=63832581&postcount=102
The really problem for MS is how to approach the whole digital vs. Physical media thing.
If they didn't have restrictions to the console, then the average gamer could rent a game at Redbox, download it onto the console, return the game, and log on to play it forever in the cloud.
If you never had to go online ever then I could see the whole modding/ban hammer situation that the 360 faced returning. This time around the ban hammer REALLY sucks as we are now reading.
My personal opinion, but if Micrsoft want to truly solve this issue and NOBODY is currently saying this.
All MS has to do is make the cool features of downloading the physical game to the cloud OPTIONAL.
This means if you want to all of the Cloud benefits like sharing with 10 people etc. Then that's your option to tie the game to your profile at that point. You would then fall under those applicable restrictions.
If not, then you should be able to play you Xbox One games as normal and share, trade etc at will to ANY retailer etc.
This would ease people into the digital world, while preventingthe potential of gamers to face their console locking them away from their physical game that they just bought that day, because their internet was down for a few days.
This also would allow the Navy to play their games offline as was recently brought up.
But, who knows maybe MS has something else up their sleeve to resolve this issue. They will need it come launch.
Someone on Redditt (shout out to 'veul') clearly read my idea in the Thurott thread and posed it to Major Nelson a couple of hours ago when he was answering questions on there. Here's the question:
[–]veul [score hidden] 2 hours ago
Just an idea here. Why not allow there to be a Xbox Live option to allow "offline" mode, but it disables any family sharing? Like
"If Xbox One hasn't connected in 24 hrs: [] Disable game & Allow Sharing [] Enable Game & Disallow Sharing"
Major Nelson's immediate response:
[–]majornelsonMajor Nelson - Microsoft [score hidden] 2 hours ago
I'd have to check w/ the engineers, but I don't see why that would not be possible.
Other responses in the Reddit thread:
[–]JoshSundquist1 [score hidden] 2 hours ago
Please, please, please make it happen! That would be the best of both worlds and cement my purchase of Xbox One.
[–]SweZor [score hidden] 2 hours ago
If you could announce a feature such as this (even if it is set to "Disable gaming" by default), I believe that would have a huge positive PR-impact, I hope you guys understand that. This is currently the ONE thing that is keeping me (and I'm sure alot of others) from getting the console.Thank you for all of your responses so far, it's very good to see alot of the question marks about this new console being straightened out. I truly believe that we have an amazing machine here, and if you could fix these few issues that people have with it, it will probably be successesful as well.
The POWER of GAF! This might actually be an effective solution and it came from posting on here.
If Major Nelson convinces the brass to implement this then Micrsoft could go forward on this without actually backtracking on their originsl ideas. You could choose to play games like they are on the 360 and earn achievements, and do whatever you like with your disc, but you wouldn't be able to use the cloud features that MS is promoting.
Like I originally wrote this would squash all of worries that you couldn't play games offline if you didn't have internet and the deployed Navy could play their Xbox One games while deployed if they bought the system.