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The games play as they install. You don't need the last 2/3 of the game when you start to play.

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I'm sure they'll have a pre-loading option for pre-orders like Steam too.

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Sure, if you bought the disc... if buy it digitally.... :lol: hope you can play or watch something else for awhile.

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Looks like I made Mr. Music's list. :(

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I would to see huge bandwidth consumption enablers like MS, Sony, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Pandora, Spotify, etc unify in battling ISPs constantly restricting user access.

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Remember, they said earlier that accounts will work a bit differently as far as family members are concerned. You know they'll have some restrictions in place to prevent sharing among friends. For one thing, sharing account credentials violates the ToS and can already get you banned from XBL this generation. It'll hurt even more on the One when a ban would mean none of your games work anymore, even ones for which you own a physical copy.

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That would be the hotness.

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It is kind of funny to see Microsoft be the only one being slammed about being consumer unfriendly when Sony could end up having a similar set up.

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Sony's winning this battle just by keeping quiet. Once they open up, things could change instantly.

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What a bunch of idiots over there. Seriously, what does MS have to do to get a positive spin? I mean, they basically said users can do EVERYTHING they want to do plus more, and the only "drawback" is checking in online once a day? Seems like a GREAT day for XBOX news, not a horrible one.

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I seem to be Mr. contrarian in this thread. I was willing to give MS the benefit of the doubt and thought the backlash to the announcement was way premature, but these terms are a deal killer for me. The biggest issue is that publishers can control if, when and how much it will cost to sell resell a game disc.

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i would think that if you are "sharing" a game from your system, you can't be playing one while it is "sharing." if that is the case, what is the fucking point? i'm not going to sit around and wait for a "family member" to finish their game so i can play.

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I guess I have loaned out the discs to a handful of games that never ever made it back to me. Older titles that I probably simply forgot about.

My brothers might want to play my copy of Saints Row 2 I have on my current shelf. If they could play it out of the cloud that would be even easier.

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i guess we need more info. to me, this reads that it takes info off your system, not the cloud. sure, you play it over the internet, but your system is the starting point. if it doesn't require your system to do anything other than "authorize" the game to be played, and allows me to use my system concurrently, then i'm totally fine with that.

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I'm almost positive that it's accessing your cloud, not your entire system, for shared games.

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Have you been reading the thread? It does everything I want it to do except, you know, let me rent games, or sell them on my own terms. Those are big negatives.

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Yep, Comcast had a 250GB a month limit that they are not enforcing.... talk is they are trialing a larger limit... 300GB or 350GB... how generous of them...

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I'm pretty sure that only one system can play each game at the same time (while online)... you know... unless you bought 2 licenses.... they tried explaining that after the reveal.

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I'm guessing it goes like this.

Game Owner: I wonder what I should play...
Aunt: My nephew owns CoD on his XO. I will log in to my account, and play it as a shared game.
Game Owner: Oh, it looks like my Aunt is playing CoD, so I can't play that right now. However, I can play any other game I own.
Aunt: YEAH HEADSHOT TAKE THAT YOU LITTLE SHIT

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It will probably be like this based on what was said before:


You: Whoo hoo, gonna get some COD in and kill some n00bs with my friends
Brother or other person on your account: (already playing your COD) Headshot bitches, eat my poop!
You: Son of a bitch!.... sends angry message to Brother or other person on your account " Get off my game, I gotta play!"
Brother or other person on your account: Voice message back "Suck it! Headshot bitches!...."

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Yes, probably, but I think Deftones's concern was that if anyone was playing any shared game from your system, then you wouldn't be able to use your Xbox at all, and I don't think that's the case.

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I guess the biggest question for me after reading through all of that a couple of times is what exactly constitutes a "family member" and what restrictions will be placed on it. Can you make a friend a "family member" and if so, how will it work? Is there some way they could restrict things by geographic area or something to that effect?

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Is it viable to play next gen games strictly streaming from the cloud? If so then why isn't Steam already doing this? Also, if it were possible then why not simply buy a license giving you access to the game online rather than having to install it on your system. I still don't believe that this cloud business will be possible for these newer games and will believe it when I see it.

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I've been curious about that as well. It's not a feature that affects me, but I know a couple people that it would.

It'd be great for single player games that you don't really touch after finishing. However, I'm willing to bet there will be tools in place to prevent game sharing with friends.

Not really. All this equates to is spin. Seriously, they're acting like they're doing us a favor by letting any family member play a game on that console. Thanks MS! It's listed as a feature. It has bold and everything! rotfl

All the cons are still there; can't sell games of my own free will(pubs set market value), can't rent, can't loan, gotta phone home*, Kinect required & always listening**, etc.. It's a finely crafted piece of spin, but it's still spin. Some of it sounds okay, but all of it is still too vague and too many questions remain.

*they still haven't addressed what happens if Live goes down. Do 10 million people get the RROD at the exact same time since they can't phone home?

** if you can shut off every feature and command including "xbox on" why does it need to be plugged in at all?

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Shout "xbox off" through your mic to his kinect to kill his system. Problem solved. :)