Video Games: Xbox One to allow sharing between 10 people?!?

brIt-()nstar

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The idea is that ten people in your family group can all share your games. Think of it like a loaning system, but you're not loaning anyone a phyiscal product. If you're in my family group, you can play my games, and vice versa.

“I think the policy makes sense,” Spencer said. “It’s not ten different people all playing the game concurrently, but when you think about a real usage scenario, and we thought about it around a family, and I know certain people will create a family group of people that aren’t all part of the same family, and I do think that’s an advantage, and people will use that. I saw it on NeoGAF instantly, the Xbox Family creation threads, where people said 'Hey be a part of my family.'”

“No birth certificates will need to be sent in!” Spencer said when I asked if the service required a blood test. “I do think that’s an advantage of the ecosystem that we have.”

So that answers one question: Microsoft doesn't seem to care whether or not the ten people in the group are actually family members. They can be friends, roommates, boyfriends, girlfriends, your dog's groomer… you pick ten people, and you share games with them.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=588871

Wait this is actually finally good news for Xbox One. Death at their PR not even announcing it @ E3 making it a disaster.

It still needs clarification though. I mean, Sony done the same with PS3 through Gamesharing between 5 people and the publishers said "hold the **** up to them".

Golden

Lawd woooo @ you making 478 threads about the Xbox One every day.
Lawd woooo @ you realising the Xbox One is a better product than the PS4.
Lawd woooo @ your backlash.

Wings

Death at Microsoft just now talking about this, probably scrambling to put it together after they got slammed at E3.

brIt-()nstar

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Originally posted by Golden

Lawd woooo @ you making 478 threads about the Xbox One every day.
Lawd woooo @ you realising the Xbox One is a better product than the PS4.
Lawd woooo @ your backlash.

You think so?

I'll still buy a PS4 as it could also handle gamesharing. #oops.

Red

This is the first non-gaming related news I've heard about the Xbox One in a while that doesn't make me want to rip my hair out. IF it works like Phil Spencer says it will, it can be a nice feature for the console.

I doubt the Xbox One would have this feature in place without the system-wide DRM on the system, but it's at least nice to know that I don't have to share games with just "family members".

FlyOnTheWall

Not gonna buy one. I bought the Xbox 360 because I thought it had potential with KINECT but almost all of the KINECT games were... mehh. And I'm not gonna support this "pay for share"thing

Won't buy a PS4 either tho. Seems like the only console of this generation I'll get will be Wii U.... Nintendo>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Dollas n Diamonds

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Originally posted by Golden

Lawd woooo @ you making 478 threads about the Xbox One every day.
Lawd woooo @ you realising the Xbox One is a better product than the PS4.
Lawd woooo @ your backlash.

the fact that the Xbone reps have show such arrogance and ignorance toward their consumers,
coupled with the fact they are basically selling a glorified spyware system with a phone plan attached to it, it wouldn't even matter if it was a better product (it isnt) they don't deserve one damn coin.

Arking

Brite Lites ☆

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For one, a family member has to be a "blood relative," he said, and the Xbox One would include a built-in blood testing kit. For another, they have to live in the primary owner's house.

Haus

That's cool. My PS4 will let me share my games with as many people as I want

Pie-kun

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Originally posted by Haus

That's cool. My PS4 will let me share my games with as many people as I want

Plus it doesn't have to be online every 24 hours to be played.

Plus it will work in any region of the world.

Plus I don't have to have a Kinect plugged in to use it.

Plus it's cheaper.

But leave it to the Xbox stans to think sharing a game with 10 people is some kind of revolutionary concept

Neptune

How is this good news

brIt-()nstar

Wait you need to share your account name and password to the one you're sharing to? Isn't that unsafe?

Thomasuxx

A bloodtest?

Rico Shameless v2

lll;;;;;;;;;f

They might as well hit the delay button.

manwhore

do you people not have jobs to not afford your own interent? Momma not paying for it after high school next year? Oh i see.

xBox one games >> then the ps4 exclusives.. please explain how thats not so.

RideOrDie

What the actual **** Microsoft?

The heart-beat-seeing-thing was already a mess and now a bloodtest? I don't want to build a mini hospital in my house, no ma'am.

Sunshine.

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Originally posted by Thomasuxx

A bloodtest?

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Originally posted by RideOrDie

What the actual **** Microsoft?

The heart-beat-seeing-thing was already a mess and now a bloodtest? I don't want to build a mini hospital in my house, no ma'am.

Where does it say you need a blood test?

Dollas n Diamonds

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Originally posted by RideOrDie

What the actual **** Microsoft?

The heart-beat-seeing-thing was already a mess and now a bloodtest? I don't want to build a mini hospital in my house, no ma'am.

wait. that was a joke wasn't it

no, it cant be real just

brIt-()nstar

I don't think you need a blood test.