Comment on End of an era?
Sabrinamycarpet@sh.itjust.works 22 hours agoYou are ignoring the fact that these plans were made over a decade ago. You really expect MS to keep their promise when after watching Sony do this?
Comment on End of an era?
Sabrinamycarpet@sh.itjust.works 22 hours agoYou are ignoring the fact that these plans were made over a decade ago. You really expect MS to keep their promise when after watching Sony do this?
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
What exactly is your point?
Microsoft were doing their “physical as digital” plan which was literally the best digital-only system ever devised, and they were forced to ditch it by people who were too dumb to see the industry trends at the time, and by people who hate Microsoft/xbox.
Now no one gets that amazing “digital only” system.
Sabrinamycarpet@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
I’ll try to make it clearer for you.
Microsoft made a plan. Great. Anybody can ‘make’ a plan and that plan could sound amazing to some people.
You are nostalgizing the ideal parts of their plan without having to see it play out. How would sharing have really worked? Would the disc be tied to your account forever? Would your friend be able to install from it?
And for sake of argument let’s say Microsoft executed on this best plan ever. Fast forward 10 years and they are looking for more profits somewhere. What’s stopping them from changing the terms of their plan? Pretty sure the TOS you click OK to when installing the game says it lets them alter things as they fit.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
They literally outlined all of this. Everything single part. You could choose a friends gamertag to loan your game to. While it was on loan they could download and play it, but you couldn’t since you loaned it out.
As for your second paragraph, no you’re just inventing imaginary what-ifs because you want to be anti-Microsoft - just like I’m sure you did back when they announced these plans.
Thanks to people like you, you’ll now get all the drawbacks of digital and none of the benefits of physical. Congratulations, you played yourself.
Sabrinamycarpet@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
I’m imagining anti Microsoft things?
Tell me: what is the monthly subscription price of gamepass? What was it a year ago? 2 years ago? How’s their game library?