Xbox One: sharing your games with 10 people

[MCD]

http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/xbox-one-allows-you-to-share-games-with-ten-family-members-but-some-details

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.

OK guys, I will get this POS and share my games with you poor people.

[Don Flamenco]

yyyyeahhh, i think i'll wait to see how that actually plays out. 

[MCD]

I think it's possible. I mean, Xbox is all about shooters and multi, right?

Then this won't work for playing the hottest COD with 10 family members. However, it will be godly for single player or old game releases.

[Don Flamenco]

If it's as lenient and consequence-free as they say it is.

[MCD]

You have to be online and offer your body to Kinect, what more do they need?

[Eel O'Brian]

Will last about as long as ps3 game sharing did

[Human Snorenado]

If I win a free Xboner from the might of the Dewritos promotion, I promise to let all of you dudes be my friend so I can play your games for free

[Momo]

If I actually know 10 people with a xbone to share games with, i'll kill them then myself.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Is this some kind of killer feauture? Thread worthy?

Right now i can share my game with as many people as i want, as long as i want aaaaand sell it.

[Damian79]

Yeah but you have to drive to them to share it or even post it to them if they are on the other side of the world.  This i sa good start to get on my good books MS.

[maxy]

Sure,but you have to give the disc to someone and that requires physical effort.With Xbone,your game is available to family members as soon as you buy(activate) it.

I bet subscription is needed.Not sure how many people can play the same game at the same time,some people say two(owner + friend),some people say one...

[Phoenix Dark]

Is this some kind of killer feauture? Thread worthy?

Right now i can share my game with as many people as i want, as long as i want aaaaand sell it.

Where's the fun in that? That just makes you like everyone else. Sharing is one of the first steps of a relationship, not something you do with some random guy on a bus. We share with people we care about, people we love, our friends and family. And some things we share are more important, more exclusive, than others. I might share a cigarette with many friends, but would I share my car with many friends? Of course not. There's only a select few who I could trust with my car. A select few. It's a club, a brotherhood...a band of brothers.

Ten friends. You choose who you can trust. Jump in.

[nudemacusers]

•Some games not transferable and have no resale value; restrictions on games usage apply.

Ooops, you can share but only stuff we "enable" you to share. That hot Titanfall game? Not transferable/ shareable in the first 3 months after release because FUCK YOU POORS AND GO BUY THE GAME.

yeah sorry the 'some games not transferable' is basically a weasel way out.

[MCD]

This Deal's Getting Worse All The Time

[Sho Nuff]

I will be saving so much money next generation by not buying anything

[nudemacusers]

I will be saving so much money next generation by not buying anything

i'm going back to old 4x space games and rpgs that run on windows 95 or lower. who's with me.

[G The Resurrected]

You can also "share" your live account as well with up to 10 people. Which is great for families or multi console homes like mine. The game sharing does have some restrictions. I believe I heard something about only two instances of the games could be used at the same time. Meaning the other 8 or 9 people could not use the software at the sametime. I'm looking forward to not having to buy two copies of Star Trek just to play a crappy coop game.

[maxy]

•Some games not transferable and have no resale value; restrictions on games usage apply.

Ooops, you can share but only stuff we "enable" you to share. That hot Titanfall game? Not transferable/ shareable in the first 3 months after release because FUCK YOU POORS AND GO BUY THE GAME.

It could also be a marketing tool.You buy Titanfall and want to play with friends but all your friends are skeptical.So instead of trying to talk them into it,writing long forum post,recording videos,etc you just make them a part of your family.

They can play the game for free but there is a catch,you can't play together as a group unless they buy the game.Only you and one friend at a time,the rest have to buy.

[Beezy]

•Some games not transferable and have no resale value; restrictions on games usage apply.

Ooops, you can share but only stuff we "enable" you to share. That hot Titanfall game? Not transferable/ shareable in the first 3 months after release because FUCK YOU POORS AND GO BUY THE GAME.

It could also be a marketing tool.You buy Titanfall and want to play with friends but all your friends are skeptical.So instead of trying to talk them into it,writing long forum post,recording videos,etc you just make them a part of your family.

They can play the game for free but there is a catch,you can't play together as a group unless they buy the game.Only you and one friend at a time,the rest have to buy.

I don't see a problem with this. I'll stay skeptical though until MS officially clears things up.

[maxy]

It looks that way

In a family group, the head of household can always play any game; and one other member of the family, no matter where they are, can play too.]

Spencer: [After encouraging me to check Microsoft's published document on this] I do think that sharing in a family group is an important part of the positives in our ecosystem today...You don't have to send in your birth certificate. You define what a family unit is and the people who connect to you and how that library works.

http://kotaku.com/the-xbox-one-believers-513819282

[Barry Egan]

what's amazing to me is that Microsoft didn't emphasize this feature in either conference.  It's possibly the only  feature that suggests a benefit to gamers who are skeptical of an all-DRM all-digital future and they just casually tossed it out at the end. 

[DCharlieJP]

yeah, there's some bullshit attached to this - there's no way you implement a super restrictive second hand DRM set up then say "oh but you can just start a buddy list and 10 people can use your games"

Sony got roasted for this being set at 5 and they , from publisher pressure, reduced it to being playable on -2- units.

10? And it's just on a "family list" ? No way. Absolutely no way. Game sales would tank and publishers would go nuts.



annnnnd - i think i just saw the bottom of it....

you can share it with up to 10 people....

.... but i bet it's restricted to TWO physical consoles. lol.

[Powerslave]

*Further clarification on the policy tba

[Cerveza mas fina]

They already said you can lend a game once for 30 days max, i bet its like that with this too.

Otherwise you can just delete family members and add new peeps from your friend list.

Up to 10 people*




*1 ip.

And they all need active xbl gold too ofc.

[chronovore]

There's no way there will be simultaneous sharing. Just logging in to the network, it would check the s/n against its database, and when the 2nd user tries with the same s/n, it will say, "Someone else is already playing with this copy. Returning to Dashboard."

It may even let you know which GamerTag is using the copy.

Even way back in 1990, Adobe had this running in Photoshop and Illustrator, to prevent users having the same s/n copy running on the LAN. Microsoft's just going to use the same idea on the scale of the XBL network.

[maxy]

gaf

Found in the latest Steam Beta update.

Update to Steam Beta. Steam > Settings > Beta Participation
Go to you Steam/Public/steamui_english to verify

[The Sceneman]

MS IS BACK BAYBEE

[Tasty]

 

[The Sceneman]

[The Sceneman]

dont question, just believe

[Rufus]

Shh, no scepticism. Only faith now.

[archie4208]

[Rufus]

Step 5
Schedule playing times
Shit on that one guy who ignores them and hogs the licence

Step 6
Share only with Australians henceforth

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Step 1

Realize sharing is limited to two consoles (on the same network). Weep.

[close]

[Great Rumbler]

People actually think the Xbone's sharing is going to be like that?

[Brehvolution]

[Diunx]

[Don Flamenco]

(Image removed from quote.)

Damn, they have Rare doing some shameful ass work nowadays.

[Shaka Khan]

wrong thread

[maxy]

Say goodbye to this.

Digital future,lol

[chronovore]

Or say hello to Steam, no?

[Trent Dole]

Need to add a 'not' to that thread title now.

[Diunx]

lol people really believed this was gonna last more than a year?

[Shaka Khan]

It was a feature that wasn't going to be available at launch. And according to "INSIDERS" it wasn't planned from the start, but part of the salve they started concocting after the first wave of blacklash (i.e. Adam Orth's debacle). Other parts included going from "always-on" to "24h checks." The the details and restrictions of this feature were scarce, not to mention vague. In other words, it had all the elements of a bait and switch.

[maxy]

Or say hello to Steam, no?

If only it was that easy.

Steam is way too weak to replace console retail,console digital is nothing too.Unwashed masses are also scared of PCs.

Maybe with Steambox,maybe.

Something simple,press and play