Oh this should be interesting to see play out.Andy Shandy said:Turns out that pre-owned fee thing is false, at least if Xbox's official support Twitter is anything to go by.
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Oh this should be interesting to see play out.Andy Shandy said:Turns out that pre-owned fee thing is false, at least if Xbox's official support Twitter is anything to go by.
[Tweet t=https://twitter.com/XboxSupport/status/336933801517260800]
Well obviously they're going to have "Family Bundles" Where they rip you off in an entirely new way that is unfathomable at this point, I sense bad things ahead but hopefully i'm wrong.Aris Khandr said:It also says that this is account-based. So odds are, it will work like Steam, keeping track of all of the games you purchased, whether they are installed right now or not.Zombie_Moogle said:Let me make sure I've got this
A disc is good for 1 install on 1 500GB HDD. How many AAA games could 500GB hold? Eventually you'd need to delete older ones to install newer games; does this mean they're gonna try to charge customers to play the game that they themselves already bought brand-new at full price?
Forget resale. Can I even play the same game twice?
My question is more to "What about multi-user homes?" We've got a generation right now where every member of a household has their own account, with their own achievements, friends, and history. I don't think you'll entice too many people to buy the activation for each family member who wants to play the game you've already paid $60 for.
Sure there will be a lot of people hurt, but guess what we got out of the last crash? Nintendo as we know it.scorptatious said:And cost many many people their jobs in the process! YAY!Azaraxzealot said:I'd say there's bullets in all the chambers. One for one foot, one for the other, one for each leg, one for the gut, and one for the head.Fappy said:The bullet's in the chamber. Will they shoot themselves in the foot?
I want this to fail so hard that the industry crashes and starts being run by the Indies.
Seriously, why would anyone WANT the industry to crash?? Regardless of how you feel about things right now, that just seems incredibly selfish.
OT: Well, either way, I don't plan to buy this console. I'll probably just settle for the PS4 and possibly a better computer so I can get more into PC gaming.
I'll hop on board the Ouya train when they fix it and promise not to release a new one every year.aba1 said:Just hop on board for the Ouya they seem to be the only system who give a flying fuck at this point.Azaraxzealot said:I'd say there's bullets in all the chambers. One for one foot, one for the other, one for each leg, one for the gut, and one for the head.Fappy said:The bullet's in the chamber. Will they shoot themselves in the foot?
I want this to fail so hard that the industry crashes and starts being run by the Indies.
I literally did the exact thing you did with transitioning to PC. And I feel the exact same way.Nowhere Man said:I really don't have enough middle fingers to give these guys at this point. I'm really glad we're all of the same mind when it comes to the Xbone (hysterical name!) but I fear sales from the uninformed and uncaring general consumers could send the wrong message to these Xbone heads (see what I did there?). So I say anyone caught buying this abomination to gaming should be tied to a post, have the console wrestled from their hands and traded in for a PC to send them home with. And I never used to be a PC gamer until the last several months. This cements my transition.
I fully agree on all your points! It's time to start fresh and let the indies take over. At least they actually love video games.Azaraxzealot said:snip
But the sad fact is, while they would, and it would be awesome for a while, eventually they would turn into the EAs and Activisions.Nowhere Man said:I fully agree on all your points! It's time to start fresh and let the indies take over. At least they actually love video games.Azaraxzealot said:snip
You're assuming that a crash is automatically going to fix everything. While it is true that Nintendo rose from the ashes of the last crash, it's kinda unlikely that the same kind of thunder is going to strike twice.Azaraxzealot said:Sure there will be a lot of people hurt, but guess what we got out of the last crash? Nintendo as we know it.scorptatious said:And cost many many people their jobs in the process! YAY!Azaraxzealot said:I'd say there's bullets in all the chambers. One for one foot, one for the other, one for each leg, one for the gut, and one for the head.Fappy said:The bullet's in the chamber. Will they shoot themselves in the foot?
I want this to fail so hard that the industry crashes and starts being run by the Indies.
Seriously, why would anyone WANT the industry to crash?? Regardless of how you feel about things right now, that just seems incredibly selfish.
OT: Well, either way, I don't plan to buy this console. I'll probably just settle for the PS4 and possibly a better computer so I can get more into PC gaming.
I want a crash to force the industry to re-examine its priorities.
It's like a forest fire. Sure it's tragic and destructive, but in the long run, it does so many good things for the forest that we can't honestly say it's a bad thing.
And similarly, the game industry is like an overgrown forest in DESPERATE need of a cleansing fire to get rid of all the dead shit below and all the suffocating canopy above that prevents new ideas from being born and living.
PC gamers haven't had a real used game market for over 10 yearsMoonlight Butterfly said:PC gamers who use Steam don't buy second hand games because they can wait for a steam sale and buy it cheaper than it would be marked down in the store anyway.
At least that's true for where I live.
Verrrrry good question. I don't keep all that many games (I like the trade in deal at Gamestop too much) but the ones I do keep I like playing over and over again with a significant time lapse in between playthroughs.Zombie_Moogle said:Forget resale. Can I even play the same game twice?
I did not assume a crash could fix everything. It would be a slow process, but things would get better than they are. And with so much time between crashes and so much happening, I believe that it's highly likely another Nintendo could grow from the ashes.scorptatious said:You're assuming that a crash is automatically going to fix everything. While it is true that Nintendo rose from the ashes of the last crash, it's kinda unlikely that the same kind of thunder is going to strike twice.Azaraxzealot said:Sure there will be a lot of people hurt, but guess what we got out of the last crash? Nintendo as we know it.scorptatious said:And cost many many people their jobs in the process! YAY!Azaraxzealot said:I'd say there's bullets in all the chambers. One for one foot, one for the other, one for each leg, one for the gut, and one for the head.Fappy said:The bullet's in the chamber. Will they shoot themselves in the foot?
I want this to fail so hard that the industry crashes and starts being run by the Indies.
Seriously, why would anyone WANT the industry to crash?? Regardless of how you feel about things right now, that just seems incredibly selfish.
OT: Well, either way, I don't plan to buy this console. I'll probably just settle for the PS4 and possibly a better computer so I can get more into PC gaming.
I want a crash to force the industry to re-examine its priorities.
It's like a forest fire. Sure it's tragic and destructive, but in the long run, it does so many good things for the forest that we can't honestly say it's a bad thing.
And similarly, the game industry is like an overgrown forest in DESPERATE need of a cleansing fire to get rid of all the dead shit below and all the suffocating canopy above that prevents new ideas from being born and living.
Who knows though? Maybe that kind of thing will happen. Although at this point in time, it's all just speculation. And I'm rather hesitant to place my bets on something that's only speculated about.
Because FUCK YOUCJ1145 said:I often take multiplayer games to my friends' houses so we can play them there. Since lugging my Xbox around is dumb as shit, I just carry the disk.
Someone care to tell me why this new system is screwing me and my friends over when we're using the product as (presumably) intended?
And it's a better name than its actual nameGrey Carter said:It's not a typo. That's what I'm calling it.Elijah Newton said:Oh sweet manky jeebus, please don't let this be a typo to be corrected. 'Xbone' is too terrific, just go with it. I think it's how I'm going to refer to it.Grey Carter said:However, unlike PS3 games, once installed, Xbone games can be ran without the disc in the drive.
I say this as an owner of an Xbox and an Xbox 360 - based on what I'm reading I really don't think I want to get Xbone'd.
Don't quote me on this, but it's looking like that the 'fee' will be equivalent to the price of the actual game. In essence they will have to buy the game for download, not just have a friend borrow it.SonOfVoorhees said:I dont think its all that bad, depends on the price they will charge for playing a pre owned game. If its a few pounds its not that big a deal if you bought the game for £10. Although, for me, most of the games i play are rentals from Lovefilm and i only buy new games if they are something i really want.
I guess we will have to wait and see.