Sharing of digital distribution as though they were physical discs was the one damned thing I was looking forward to. It's the one thing physical distribution of media still holds over digital distribution.
Yes. Locking your down console tighter than Fort Knox sure was "progressive."
You are OK with Steam, yes? THAT is locked down tighter than Fort Knox. NOTHING leaves an account, with the exception of 'unopened' items, and used games are locked down FOREVER. With this being airtight that NOTHING leaves your "possession" EVER, then yeah Steam is somewhat flexible with offline mode as the DRM allows nothing to leave anyway. "Oh but Steam has insane sales". Yes they do, and I have no idea if Microsoft could or would have done the same with sales, but if you have been on Steam you'll realize what was so damned progressive.
I'm speaking as someone with a Steam backlog and ultimately a fair bit of wasted games/money that I regret. Microsoft was going to offer sharing and reselling of USED digital distribution licensees. Shared game libraries, same limitations of a physical disc with one console per game. That's never been done before.
I was actually OK with the online requirements. There's no other way they could juggle the DRM of keeping one person per license at a time on opposite ends of the Earth at any moment. This was acceptable to me. How do I know this is the reason for the "Fort Knox" connectivity requirement? The fact they shitcanned the whole thing when they dropped the connectivity requirements.
I actually WANT this model NOW on PC.
But it would need to be proven first before anyone seriously adopted it. And now it's dead.
So you're disappointed that a vague idea, which was only presented because people were angry about not being able to share games, was canned?
The terms for used games sharing was announced on June 6th, FOUR DAYS BEFORE E3.
The whole Sony's "Used games Sharing on PS4" and "XBONE YOU CANT SHARE GAMES" Etc was a bunch of Sony propaganda by NeoGaf and such.
I swear NO ONE read the actual Microsoft Statements detailing ANYTHING about it and just bought into the circle jerking.