Digitize game disc to my account
Resell
Second hand buyer tries to play disc
Can’t because Disc is locked to my accountIsn’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.
Digitize game disc to my account
Resell
Second hand buyer tries to play disc
Can
If you actually read the article before getting mad, you’d have realized this is actually better than simple physical media. You get the advantages of both physical (ownership, lending, reselling) and digital (play on multiple devices, no risk of damaging your disc).
Nah, you just have to drink a verification can.
how about a digital to disc solution
I would have no problem with digital if it was actual ownership instead of licensing
Considering digital games are the same price as physical currently they could do it as a free service
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”
Did anyone in the comments read the article? The disc is not permanently tied to an account. Only temporarily, to the account of whoever used it last.
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.
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.
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)
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).
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
Yes they do. Any account in your home console can play all of your digital games. Stop spreading lies.
https://www.windowscentral.com/xbox/xbox-pc-game-pass-crackdown-breaks-family-setup
They changed it. Then they changed it back after some outcry and blamed it on a bug.
The point stands.
It was clearly a bug, and it only affected child accounts. It was also a Windows 11 bug, didn’t affect xbox consoles.
Oh, don’t worry. They won’t work anyways after a firmware update.
That’ll help to digitise aLl ThEsE gAmEs that are coming out, eh Microsoft?