Hopefully down the road sharing comes back.

See how Steam does it than maybe MS/Sony will copy the process.

I don't see what the difficulty keeping is in keeping the status quo for sharing and renting games. If you're done with a game, give the disc to your friend/sibling/whatever. As long as you have a disc you can play. You will still need mandatory installs but that's cool - i believe it's going to be play while you install. If you don't want to give the disc to your friend, they can buy the "license" to play the digital copy that's on their HDD.

For Digital Download, as long as you log in with your GT you can play on any console. Of course the same ownership rights as current will still apply which is totally fair. As the consumer, what matters is the choice to choose between the media. For me, unless it's on sale, I'll not bother with a "license". Online passes have always been up to the publisher and there have been so many current games which do not require online passes for multi-player.

By stone age - meaning consumer still has rights as long as they have disc? That's not suckage - that's awesome in my books.

The only good thing about steam is the sales.

Otherwise, you're stuck with one game identity, one copy. Which is the worst DRM inplementation of the current generation

Granted steam can allow publishers to slash the price kaokao 'cause they don't have to play nice with retailers. MS/Sony/Nintendo still rely heavily on physical retail.


Seeing MS back peddling on their DRM stance shows that society is still not ready to accept full digital.


I was really looking forward to game sharing, at least now can import Xbone and play without the hassle of region lock.


Last time before X360 launch @ SG ada orang kasi import ar?

I understand what you mean but we are now a step backwards, My meaning of stone age is we have lost the new Digital age (Like Steam) Now we just got an upgrade of Kinect + Graphic card on our Xbox360 with facelift that cost $499 = Around RM1600++?

Don't get me wrong ill still buy Xbox One, its just that the console is no more a Premium Console

This post has been edited by IccyAsd: Jun 20 2013, 02:01 PM

I've mentioned before on these forums, I've chosen the 360 over steam this generation because i didn't like the idea of having my games tied to one digital identity. This already made sharing my steam games with my real family illegal and in breach of their own drm policies. Most of my media is physical except where i can't avoid it (sales/xbla). The only reason why we put up with steam crap is because it is sometimes so, so cheap.

I don't think they're changing their plans for simultaneous releases for physical and digital so you will be able to download any game you want digitally. From that announcement, they don't seem to be changing their rules on that, so for every download, the digital download will still be digitally signed to your gamertag and the first console it's downloaded on.

The convenience of not disc swapping is still there, and if you really want to, you can loan out your gamertag to another xbox if you want to "share" your digital copies - just like steam. The convenience of console is still going to be there - ie no need to worry about compatibility/drivers/specs. No convenience of being able to share with 10 family members - but this was never going to mean having all 10 gamertags gaming at the same time - in exchange for giving up the right to actually own something.

edit: also, my take on this is that MS backpedaled based on projections for pre-orders. For this generation no one is going to pay for both ps+ and xboxlive gold seeing how they're both required for multiplayer. By losing too much ground to sony at the start, and therefore the multiplayer community, they would have put themselves at a permanent disadvantage from which they would never recover.

This post has been edited by Kidicarus: Jun 20 2013, 04:10 PM

To those who didn't realize the news,
From now on XBOne will be region free, no mandate online check & your game disc is now no restriction on trading.

My only hope is the storing of the game image to cloud is still applicable..... so I can bring the library everywhere with me..... without the physical disc....

http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update

Now let hope by region free means what it means, for digital as well as DLC.

How soon can we expect the Xbone to be sold in Malaysia? And what is the expected price?

how soon? you mean asia version? i think sep next year. playasia have asia version that estimate release sep 2014

Some stores will be stocking import versions earlier right?

Otherwise 1 whole year to wait

Just get it off Amazon hehe

Why so complicated? In this day and age where the world is so connected, Microsoft is still treating the world as if only the weat have Internet and had gamers. They don't care of emerging markets. It is on
Y focused in big fat US of A.

Azure server (Cloud) is not available here, this is why they are not ready to have a worldwide launch...

Will this affect our latency on Xbox one games that uses the cloud?

not really sure, the way that they announce region free now also means that they allow ppl to do import. but not all games uses Azure server afaik Forza 5 & Spark will be using it?

seriously there is no information on how it will work outside of those Azure coverage area. we will have to wait until nov/dec.

I understand it in a way that Microsoft don't want to launch a half baked XBL cloud service in asia and yet legally cannot allow whatever US enjoyed to the whole world

They explained this for the delay of Japan market

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Good New For All... Xbox One Has Updated -Region Free - No internet Check In-

more Information visit here -->http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXhPkjU1N5A

Yeah but malaysia isn't in the updated market. But they said they will release in Singapore.