Microsoft confirms 'pre-owned fee' for Xbox One
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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.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/407912/microsoft-confirms-pre-owned-fee-for-xbox-one/
Get the ? out of here, me and my bro always share games when one of us buys something that the other does not have.
Live subscribers should have no problem with this though.
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xbox one???
more like xbox lost -
Thats wack as ?
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They need to get the ? outta here with this ? ... I guess Lexus/Toyota, Mitsubishi, and Mercedes will just mail me the bill whenever I need to borrow a family member's car.
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So basically, every used game, whether you play it online or not, will require a fee, huh?
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Well I just found this tweet from XboxSupport sayin' that's a lie...
Not really sure who to believe at this point. -
Ps4 here i come
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It's true, but they claim you will be able to sell your used games, but letting someone borrow the game will require them to pay the full price of the game for activation, rofl horrible idea and Kinect must be on at all times too.But what if you want to bring a game disc to a friend's house and play there? You'll have to pay a fee—and not just some sort of activation fee, but the actual price of that game—in order to use a game's code on a friend's account. Think of it like a new game, Harrison says.
"The bits that are on that disc, you can give it to your friend and they can install it on an Xbox One," he said. "They would then have to purchase the right to play that game through Xbox Live."
"They would be paying the same price we paid, or less?" we asked.
"Let’s assume it’s a new game, so the answer is yes, it will be the same price," Harrison said.
http://kotaku.com/you-will-be-able-to-trade-xbox-one-games-online-micros-509140825
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6 years of dedicated Xbox stannery. 6 YEARS and this is how Microsoft repays me. With a Cable Box I can't even borrow games on.
Copping A Wii U and PS4 for this gen. This that ? for real! -
They're probably thinking this will get them more exclusives, and overtime they will get more sales due to their exclusives.
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Microsoft bout that ?
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Damn, Thats some ? . So basically you need yo be online to install a game anyway? I Cant just bring 2k Over a homie house and play offline without him getting charged $60?
If this is True, goodbye Microsoft. Ill even sell my 360 smh -
I would complain but I rarely ? with pre owned games.
I wouldn't mind paying £7.50 to play a brand new title though if I borrowed it off a friend. -
I would complain but I rarely ? with pre owned games.
I wouldn't mind paying £7.50 to play a brand new title though if I borrowed it off a friend.
Nah you would have to pay the full price of the game. -
I Live off pre-owned from amazon. Why pay $60 when you can pay 45? I hardly buy games once they release anyway so its usually even less.
And I guess xbox is off gamefly too? -
LOL
Come to Sony.
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^credit goes to Jamel aka Black Samson.
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I was gonna not credit it to you, just to ? w you, nh
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@Vibe...i hope you still laughing when Sony announces something similar in addition to a revamped Sony+ system where there will no longer be free online gaming...
I will come back to this thread to quote you...
That's cool.
I'll eat my words.
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microsoft just lost a customer
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@Vibe...i hope you still laughing when Sony announces something similar in addition to a revamped Sony+ system where there will no longer be free online gaming...
I will come back to this thread to quote you...
Nope.
Now I'm about to go watch this ? AlphaOmegaSin rage on youtube. -
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lol
a good sport you are sir...
Sony won't do what Microsoft is doing.
This is why I think it was smart for them to hold off for them to make their first claims, the online backlash they will read will show them what they shouldn't do and what they might change.
The paying full price for a pre-owned is pretty wack, especially if you're just going to borrow a game. Granted you can log in with your friends gamertag, but the idea itself kills the gaming community.
I don't think Sony will ? around like that. As for paying to play online, I basically do that already with PS+, so I'm not worried.