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Originally Posted by Jameseh
Everything is done through Xbox Live & Microsoft, you can't just take your game to a mates, stick it in the disc tray and play.
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Yes you can.
http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/license
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Originally Posted by Xbox.com
Access your entire games library from any Xbox One—no discs required:
After signing in and installing, you can play any of your games from any Xbox One because a digital copy of your game is stored on your console and in the cloud. So, for example, while you are logged in at your friend’s house, you can play your games.
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Originally Posted by SnoopZ
I wonder what happens if a household has 2 or more Xbox Ones and only 1 bought copy of a game, do they then have to keep registering it with each console to play it, and is there a limit to how often this can be done?
It all sounds rather complicated to me, i am glad i won't be one of these people that blindly buy the console on the first day of release without knowing the true facts.
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It's explained in the Xbox.com article I linked to last night...
http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/license
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Originally Posted by Xbox.com
Share access to your games with everyone inside your home:
Your friends and family, your guests and acquaintances get unlimited access to all of your games. Anyone can play your games on your console--regardless of whether you are logged in or their relationship to you.
Give your family access to your entire games library anytime, anywhere:
Xbox One will enable new forms of access for families. Up to ten members of your family can log in and play from your shared games library on any Xbox One. Just like today, a family member can play your copy of Forza Motorsport at a friend’s house. Only now, they will see not just Forza, but all of your shared games. You can always play your games, and any one of your family members can be playing from your shared library at a given time.
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Originally Posted by cimt
Sony will be doing a very similar thing with the PS4. Also if you look at the EULA in any of your game manuals you will see that you don't actually own the game anyways. Also the publishers can already prevent trade ins if you read the EULA.
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Exactly. If Sony doesn't do anything similar, publishers would favour MS...
I think that Sony may just leave it all up to the publishers (it's already said there's no mandatory online requirement for the system). Then it can put on an innocent face, while laughing in private.
Instead of the system itself needing an internet connection every 24 hours, it could be on a per game basis depending on the publisher.
Play Game 1 from Publisher X? No online needed, you can play offline and you can trade it in, no restrictions.
Play Game 2 from Publisher Y? You must be online to play it, and you cannot trade it in unless you pay some sort of fee (or the person you sell it to pays a fee).
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Originally Posted by Jameseh
But why would it need to be connected if you can then just turn it off, it's clearly never off.
Infuriates me like hell because I really want to play Forza, Fable, Halo, etc.
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Because making it an optional accessory like the first Kinect would split the install base again.
Including it with every Xbox One and making its connection mandatory means the developers don't have to worry about whether people have one or not: They will know that *everyone* has one.
MS messed up with the 360 when it failed to make the HDD a standard mandatory component.