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Digitize game disc to my account
Resell
Second hand buyer tries to play disc
Can't because Disc is locked to my account
Isn't that the same fucking thing Microsoft tried to do on the Xbox One and Sony mocked them on a PS4 ad??? Time is a flat circle except this time it's both of them doing it.
how about a digital to disc solution
I would have no problem with digital if it was actual ownership instead of licensing
The hot new thing that is wildly popular with all consumers! Definitely not something universally despised that Microsoft tried and reversed generations ago, which will surely make people buy $1000 Xboxes.
Uh don’t do it. They’ll just some how add a encryption lock chained to a subscription to your “local drive” and force you to pay to play that game (Didn’t even read the article - sounds sketch or sus)
Oh, don't worry. They won't work anyways after a firmware update.
I'm going to suggest that they can already do this.
We know that Xbox won't let you use a second account to play games you purchased on your original account on the same device. One way to get around this was to use physical disks. But there's no stopping them from modifying the OS to read a disk already registered with one account and prevent that disk/key from being used on another account.
They are taking a shortcut though (probably to cut out the resale market) and just doing away with physical disks (just like Sony).
Didn't Mixrosoft try this already with thr Xbox 360?
I remeber "digitally" ripping Fable 3 to my HDD to run it. Still needed the disc for license validation.
I expect the same here.
What you're talking about is also how every physical Xbox One and Series S and X games behave. This would be, how I see it, also allow you to use the game without the disc at all and it would also be tied to your account. You can then trade the digital license, I guess.
Well that's installing from disc but still using it to play the game, a precursor to the way it continued to work on future Xboxes (with the differences that install was optional on 360, and that on later Xboxes sometimes games required a download to even install).
This rumor would have to be a step further.
Well this is about the exact opposite of what I wanted to hear after Sony’s announcement
Sometimes we get "our competitor has made a very publicly ridiculed mistake, and now is our chance to gain favor with our audience by doing the opposite" and others it's "our competitor has made a very publicly ridiculed mistake, but we really wanted to do that so now's the chance while they're taking all the heat for doing it first"
how does a disc to digital feature work without the reader to actually read the disc. This seems weird. I assume its either going to be used as a service they provide, meaning that they take the disk and give you the digital form, or an additional piece of hardware that you have to buy on top of it, but instead of it just reading the disc like a normal disk , it copies to digital like how the VHS recorders worked.
Sounds to me like this is them angling for a way to advertise backwards compatibility without a disk drive. Put a disk that hasn't been "digitized" to an account in your current console, your account now has a license for the digital version. Get new console without disk drive, game is available to download as if you'd bought it digitally to start with.
That'll help to digitise aLl ThEsE gAmEs that are coming out, eh Microsoft?
Guys, we lost. The Young's dont care about this. They will buy anything shoved in their faces. They dont even think about seeing a billion ads a day. Its ingrained. We are basically as old as dirt, with our cartridges and CDs.