• Xbox One games will be "tied to owner's account"
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[QUOTE=Key_in_skillee;40729672]isn't "tied to that certain account"? Have you ever even used steam?[/QUOTE] yes i use it on a daily basis, and i also operate in a building that has many different steam accounts tied to one pc when im signed into mine, if i try and click modern warfare 2 multiplayer, it'll pop up saying "Purchase", because that game is on another person's account and installed on the PC. now if i sign into that account, i can play that game!!!
[QUOTE=Steve Harvey;40729620]steam doesnt charge you a fee for using it on another PC though so no, its not[/QUOTE] You are just jumping on a hate bandwagon at this point. You will be charged to put the rights of the game on another account. Think about the games you own on steam. If you want a friend to try a game out on YOUR account, you would have to give them your account. You can't just give them the game. The Xbox One will only charge you if you try to transfer the rights of the game to a different account. Use your own account to login to their box and play. They don't have internet connection? Bring your own box. People are trying to make problems out of nothing. In 12 months everyone will no longer care about these little things people are bickering about and will go back to arguments about, "WELL MY PLAYSTATION HAS 3 EXLCLUSIVES, THE XBOX ONLY HAS 3! SO HA! SONY IS BETTER!"
[QUOTE=Hunterdnrc;40729707]That's some stupid logic. We're all going off of the same information, just interpreting it different ways. Anything either side says is basically speculation regarding a lot of topics, so saying that someone is a "fanboy" for interpreting vague information is fucking dumb.[/QUOTE] not really, xbox fans will defend this blindly because it's theirs, same thing as sony fanboys will defend theirs you're not going to change any sides rabid fans will just stick to what they think loves them best
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;40729708]yes i use it on a daily basis, and i also operate in a building that has many different steam accounts tied to one pc when im signed into mine, if i try and click modern warfare 2 multiplayer, it'll pop up saying "Purchase", because that game is on another person's account and installed on the PC. now if i sign into that account, i can play that game!!![/QUOTE] That is literally the opposite of what you were saying earlier.
[QUOTE=Sardonus;40729704]I like that you keep saying "you sign on to your friends" seriously they'll find a way to prevent you from doing that if they didn't want you to play games for free your only defense for this piece of shit is speculation[/QUOTE] your only defense is speculation as well though, like seriously all we know is that games are tied to accounts and all that jazz. why do you think they'd change the system so you can't log into your account on a different box out of nowhere? you seriously are only going on about this because "microsoft is evil muny grubbers omg shit console"
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;40729686]You're paying money to play it on your own anyways! if the game is tied to your XBL account then that means you have an XBL account!!! you then sign into it on your friends box (for free mind you, just like how it works now!!!) and then play tekken using your account as the main one why do people find this difficult to understand[/QUOTE] But I don't have an XBL account, so that's where my problem lies, ya dig?
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[QUOTE=Steve Harvey;40729620]steam doesnt charge you a fee for using it on another PC though so no, its not[/QUOTE] but guess what? you can't take the disk and put it in his pc. SAME DAMN THING
[QUOTE=Steve Harvey;40729620]steam doesnt charge you a fee for using it on another PC though so no, its not[/QUOTE] "Another [B]user's[/B] drive" implies "installing while logged in as a different user" It is not clarified if it will work like steam or if it will require you to pay to play a game on a different console using your account. [B]Please stop posting like it is.[/B] Unless I missed some source not in the OP. I might not like the Xbox 1 but it's really irritating to see a reputation tarnished just because some people don't read or some people don't give out the right information.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;40728854]How is this any different from games that come on disk but activate with Steam?[/QUOTE] Steam games don't cost 100+ dollars in oceania
"Yes it does, if you try and play a steam game installed onto a computer that isn't tied to that certain account, it'll prompt you to purchase it." "when im signed into mine, if i try and click modern warfare 2 multiplayer, it'll pop up saying "Purchase", because that game is on another person's account and installed on the PC." both of these posts say that "if you try to play a game that's not tied to your account, it will prompt you to purchase it"
its a really nice time to stop playing videogames
[QUOTE=Sardonus;40729728]not really, xbox fans will defend this blindly because it's theirs, same thing as sony fanboys will defend theirs you're not going to change any sides rabid fans will just stick to what they think loves them best[/QUOTE] I went into this gen consoles completely blind. Before Xbox released anything, and all we had was rumors I for sure thought I would go Sony. Now that I have seen the Xbox, it is a viable option for me. It doesn't look awful, it looks relatively good. If Xbox comes out and says they are going to charge a dollar for everytime you load a game up, of course I'm going to be pissed. However, Microsoft has yet to say anything that instantly rules out the Xbox One.
lol
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;40729730]your only defense is speculation as well though, like seriously all we know is that games are tied to accounts and all that jazz. why do you think they'd change the system so you can't log into your account on a different box out of nowhere? [I]you seriously are only going on about this because "microsoft is evil muny grubbers omg shit console"[/I][/QUOTE] Not saying this. I have an xbox. It's pretty cool, I guess. I am going on about this because this is actually pretty scummy shit.
Also it's a physical disk. If you lose it I assume you can't play without it in the console. edit: dat automerge break
[QUOTE=Sparkwire;40728839]So are games on steam[/QUOTE] Except Steam was based on a platform that has used CD-keys from pretty much the start, no one ever bought used or rented PC games. Console games are expected to rent and resell as used games.
This is literally the most repetitive thread I've ever seen. [B][I]NO I'M RIGHT[/I][/B] [B][I]NO YOU'RE WRONG[/I][/B] Lots of speculation, very few facts.
[QUOTE=Hoboiam;40729734]But I don't have an XBL account, so that's where my problem lies, ya dig?[/QUOTE] Well seeing as they said the games are tied to your account, they're either going to make the stupid choice of forcing XBL on you to get games, or they'll pull a Sony and have their online service be free. or they may make it so that if you're just using singleplayer it's fine. probably option two, very slim chance for 3
[QUOTE=FullStreak12;40729610]If a steam console came out it would do the same thing.[/QUOTE] But it didn't so it's not?
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;40729751]"Yes it does, if you try and play a steam game installed onto a computer that isn't tied to that certain account, it'll prompt you to purchase it." "when im signed into mine, if i try and click modern warfare 2 multiplayer, it'll pop up saying "Purchase", because that game is on another person's account and installed on the PC." both of these posts say that "if you try to play a game that's not tied to your account, it will prompt you to purchase it"[/QUOTE] The first one says "If you're on a different computer you can't play your games" the second says "If you're on a different account on the same computer you can't play your games"
Anyone arguing about Steam being the same way: look at it like this. With any system before, if I went to my friend's house to play some game, I'd bring the disc and we'd play on his system. Now, if I just bring the disc, I'll have to log into my Xbox Live account, wait for the entire game to install, and then we can play, and he'd either have to deal with the 25+gb used on his console for whenever I come over, or we'd have to reinstall it every time. Alternatively, I'd have to bring my entire console over, and if we played several games that only one of us owned, we'd have to unplug one system, plug in the other, and resync the controllers every time. It may be similar to Steam, but it's not similar to Xbox is the problem. It's destroying one of the basic conventions that sets console gaming apart from PC gaming: the ease of local multiplayer.
I'm assuming they'll introduce a "light" account kind of deal.
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;40729785]Well seeing as they said the games are tied to your account, they're either going to make the stupid choice of forcing XBL on you to get games, or they'll pull a Sony and have their online service be free. or they may make it so that if you're just using singleplayer it's fine. probably option two, very slim chance for 3[/QUOTE] I would think that the service of tying games to your account would be free and XBL would be a separate paid service (no way are they going to be making XBL fully free)
[QUOTE=Hoboiam;40729734]But I don't have an XBL account, so that's where my problem lies, ya dig?[/QUOTE] That's another thing I'll be waiting for. Will Microsoft charge for LIVE this time around? I think the answer will impact this issue.
[QUOTE=Sardonus;40729772]Not saying this. I have an xbox. It's pretty cool, I guess. I am going on about this because this is actually pretty scummy shit.[/QUOTE] why is it scummy though, operating under how you describe it would be suicide and would destroy themselves in the gaming scene. Microsoft may be a company out for money but they're not stupid, they know if they do something like you describe they're going to lose a load of consumers to Sony. if they operate under what i was saying, it would make a lot of sense and work in a very similar fashion to the biggest digital distribution service in current existence, while also curbing used game sales, because the used game business is basically just as harmful as piracy to the devs.
You guys jump on the bandwagon so fast when you know nothing it is hilarious. We have seen practically nothing from the PS4, maybe we should wait about taking sides before we actually know everything and look like idiots.
[QUOTE=Key_in_skillee;40729798]The first one says "If you're on a different computer you can't play your games" the second says "If you're on a different account on the same computer you can't play your games"[/QUOTE] I really think you're misinterpreting what he's saying. Both points are the same thing.
I don't like what I saw with the reveal so I'll probably just wait. I'm not upgrading to a new console until this gen cycle dies off.
I find it amazing that PC gamers bitch and moan about consoles for not being like PC gaming. Then when Xbox One released information about how it is coming closer to PC gaming, people start bitching about how the Xbox One isn't like a console all of a sudden.
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