Comment on End of an era?

• Sabrinamycarpet@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨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.

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  • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Sabrinamycarpet@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨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?

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      • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You’re seriously trying to use price increases as a reason why their “physical as digital” plan wouldn’t work?

        The Xbox game library is amazing. They’re consistently the best publisher of the year. The game pass library is incredible.

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