...By not talking about the family plan (share your Xbox One game library with up to ten "family members" digitally from any system with Xbox Live).
Basically, MS is giving people the full ability to share games digitally. Not physically though. In some ways it's better since when you give a game disc to someone to borrow, you can't play that game (obviously). With this plan though, you can play the game that you bought at the same time that someone else in your family plan is "borrowing" it.
And to be perfectly honest, this would work better for me. I have family members and friends that live a pretty far distance away from me. Instead of going a long distance to give them the disc to play the game, I could just send the game into "family sharing" and have them get it from there within minutes.
This would have been the perfect thing to announce/talk about in reply to the Xbox One controversy I think. Especially since for many people, this would be more convenient than borrowing discs.
The question is though, why haven't they done a good job stating this? It's funny how they seem to be focused more so on what they are doing to discs in terms of restrictions instead of what they're doing when it comes to bringing game sharing into the digital world. But then again, I guess it's good that they are being straightforward and honest when it comes to discs.
Either way though, it seems like MS wasn't prepared at all when it comes to their public statement/interview strategy. I mean, a feature like this will probably not even get recognized by many due to all of the bad news surrounding the Xbox One -- all mainly because of what has been stated publicly by MS employees. Don't get it at all.
Basically, MS is giving people the full ability to share games digitally. Not physically though. In some ways it's better since when you give a game disc to someone to borrow, you can't play that game (obviously). With this plan though, you can play the game that you bought at the same time that someone else in your family plan is "borrowing" it.
And to be perfectly honest, this would work better for me. I have family members and friends that live a pretty far distance away from me. Instead of going a long distance to give them the disc to play the game, I could just send the game into "family sharing" and have them get it from there within minutes.
This would have been the perfect thing to announce/talk about in reply to the Xbox One controversy I think. Especially since for many people, this would be more convenient than borrowing discs.
The question is though, why haven't they done a good job stating this? It's funny how they seem to be focused more so on what they are doing to discs in terms of restrictions instead of what they're doing when it comes to bringing game sharing into the digital world. But then again, I guess it's good that they are being straightforward and honest when it comes to discs.
Either way though, it seems like MS wasn't prepared at all when it comes to their public statement/interview strategy. I mean, a feature like this will probably not even get recognized by many due to all of the bad news surrounding the Xbox One -- all mainly because of what has been stated publicly by MS employees. Don't get it at all.