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Juez said:
What if I want to loan my friend a game? Would that mean for him to enjoy the game I would have to have him constantly use my account? What if I want to borrow a game before I decide whether or not I want to commit to a purchase? Xbox wont have that.
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With the aforementioned workaround your friend would never have to login to your account again but still play the game on their own profile. IMO borrowing would be a waste of time when you could just give the game to them for free.

I do this with all my arcade games, most of my dlc and games on demand titles between two consoles.

In case you missed the link its possible PS4 will also adopt this system too. I think a lot of people are jumping the gun on this hate train tbh.
 
Reave said:
Two things.

1) If MS keeps its current license system which I believe it is. Then you can buy...idk...Destiny or Assassin's Creed 4 at a retail store and take it over a friends house, recover your gamer tag, install the game using your tag and your friend can play it free of charge from his tag or any other tag on his X1. You can then go home recover your tag and play your game at your house after installing it again. The same would also apply with day 1 digital purchases of games so its nowhere near as bad as PC's one license practice but you would need to be connected to live in order to play at your house.

2) For all the people claiming jumping ship they need to step back and pay attention. EA stopped the online passes for a reason. EA games are not Xbox exclusives. Also this should have set off a few bells a long time ago. It did for me.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/21/yoshida-used-games-caveat/
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well EA stopped online passes because XBOX is doing it for them. if sony doesnt follow suit, which im expecting them not to, EA will either put online passes on sony games, or not make games for sony im sure.

also we're not thinking about the short term - certainly you could take your games to your friends house and still be able to play the games on your account. the problems are a) your buddy cannot borrow your games, b) 10-12 years down the road when those authentication servers go down, your games are nothing but useless plastic.

Reave said:
With the aforementioned workaround your friend would never have to login to your account again but still play the game on their own profile. IMO borrowing would be a waste of time when you could just give the game to them for free.

I do this with all my arcade games, most of my dlc and games on demand titles between two consoles.

In case you missed the link its possible PS4 will also adopt this system too. I think a lot of people are jumping the gun on this hate train tbh.
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im not certain, but im pretty sure the XBOX ONE also requires you to sync your games after a certain amount of time as well - correct me on that if im wrong. some games will also require always online DRM besides, thanks to the capabilities of the cloud.

To address your link as well, sony has already stated in another article that they do not view DRM to be a viable option for the console. if they change their minds and follow the way of microsoft, well i wont be buying their console either because its not worth it. there would no longer be a point to gaming consoles, especially when i have a perfectly good PC i can use anyways. in fact these things are priced right up there around the same as a PC equivalent anyways, so might as well build yourself a PC. at least then you wouldnt be under the restrictions of what the console can do. you would have a machine you could literally do everything on, and unlike consoles, you could always upgrade it later, meaning you could make it more and more powerful as you need to.
 
Reave said:
Two things.

1) If MS keeps its current license system which I believe it is. Then you can buy...idk...Destiny or Assassin's Creed 4 at a retail store and take it over a friends house, recover your gamer tag, install the game using your tag and your friend can play it free of charge from his tag or any other tag on his X1. You can then go home recover your tag and play your game at your house after installing it again. The same would also apply with day 1 digital purchases of games so its nowhere near as bad as PC's one license practice but you would need to be connected to live in order to play at your house.
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Its already confirmed that thats not possible. If your friend would want to play the game on his account, be it with the actual game disc or the installed version, he would have to pay a fee or keep using your account.

This article explains some of the stuff in more detail:
http://www.nowgamer.com/features/1936823/xbox_one_preowned_secondhand_and_always_online_fully_explained.html
 
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