gillterfy
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| 21 May 2013 02:16 PM |
Mandatory game installation required for all games; second install on separate Live account sits behind paywall
Microsoft has confirmed that all Xbox One games will require mandatory installation onto the system's hard drive and, to install the same disc onto another user's drive, a fee must be paid.
Individual games will be tied to Xbox Live accounts, Microsoft said, meaning that the software giant can detect whether a game has been sold to a retailer and repurchased, or handed from one friend to another. In such instances, the second user must pay a fee.
"On the new Xbox, all game discs are installed to the HDD to play," a Microsoft representative told Wired. The company added that, once discs are installed on the hard drive, games can be played without a disc being in the tray.
The Wired article then elaborates: "What follows naturally from this is that each disc would have to be tied to a unique Xbox Live account, else you could take a single disc and pass it between everyone you know and copy the game over and over. Since this is clearly not going to happen, each disc must then only install for a single owner."
It added: "Microsoft did say that if a disc was used with a second account, that owner would be given the option to pay a fee and install the game from the disc, which would then mean that the new account would also own the game and could play it without the disc."
Microsoft did not disclose what the second-user fee would amount too, and did not clarify further on the matter.
The article claims that there is no sweeping 'always-online' requirement for future Xbox One games.
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| 21 May 2013 02:19 PM |
Would you need online for this?
Also, because of this, besides a Wii U if I ever wanted a new console I am going with the PS4. |
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CatFaces
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| 21 May 2013 02:19 PM |
The company added that, once discs are installed on the hard drive, games can be played without a disc being in the tray.
sums it up |
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gillterfy
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| 21 May 2013 02:21 PM |
| Yes, and a form of payment such as paypal, so it's ruining the whole pre-owned gaming childhood we all once had. |
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| 21 May 2013 02:23 PM |
@Gill, so this is all ways online?
So if I am going to be buying new consoles/handhelds over the next 5 years it will look like this..
Wii U > Vita > PS4 > Atari Jaguar > Pile of crap > XBOX One |
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gillterfy
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| 21 May 2013 02:24 PM |
| I'm aware that a substantial amounts of games will require internet access to even play, yes |
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| 21 May 2013 02:25 PM |
YEAHAHYEHOHOOHOHOHO, OHOHOHO, GOOD JOKE MICROSOFT.
Wait.. Your serious? |
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| 21 May 2013 02:52 PM |
Ouch, the Xbox 720 (I think that was the title) is gonna have a lot of the games to be Always Online. Did Microsoft team up with the PC division of Ubisoft?
"Any Questions?" -Big Dog |
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