If I have to pay a fee to play a used game I have bought from a store or anyone, then maybe xbox one isn't for me. Who are they to tell me I can't even give my game to a friend and let them play it? So if it going to be true, if I was to lend my mate a game he would have to pay to play it on his system. That would be madness.
Steam doesn't allow me to lend my games or even buy second hand games. I hear nothing but praise for Valve and Steam.
Steam offers their games at way cheaper prices than Microsoft does, giving quite the competitive edge. And digital games are IMO fine to not be able to share, it makes sense and as time has gone on I've grown more accustomed to the idea.
The problem is that I feel a console is built to be a splitscreen/shared experience, compared to a PC (which is shortened from PERSONAL Computer, after all), which IMO is meant to be for one person to play on at a time. But a console is made for multiple people at once, so it always feels like a more shared experience. And so in this spirit of sharing and caring, I like the idea of being able to chip in some money with a few friends, pick up a game to play, and several of us sit down and play four player split screen. Then, since we ALL paid part of the cost, it seems fair to me that we should be able to bring the game from house to house, playing on multiple accounts. I mean, we all paid for the game, did we not?
Just my thoughts. Overall I'm leery about the next gen consoles as is, and if this is the case I'll probably just end up passing. PC gaming is probably cheaper in the long run anyways.
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