Xbox One: Fee to play preowned games

[Adam91]

 

Microsoft confirmed that there will be a fee to play preowned games. When you put in a brand new disc in to the Xbox one you will be prompted with a mandatory installation to install the game onto the hard drive, if you wanted to loan or give that game to a friend or relative for example their xbox will detect that it was used on another console and that person will have to play a fee to install and play the game.

 

This article is from

CVG

 

 

Microsoft has confirmed that all Xbox One games will require mandatory installation onto the system's hard drive and, to install the same disc onto another user's drive, a fee must be paid.

 

Individual games will be tied to Xbox Live accounts, Microsoft said, meaning that the software giant can detect whether a game has been sold to a retailer and repurchased, or handed from one friend to another. In such instances, the second user must pay a fee.

 

"On the new Xbox, all game discs are installed to the HDD to play," a Microsoft representative told

Wired.

 

The company added that, once discs are installed on the hard drive, games can be played without a disc being in the tray.

 

The Wired article then elaborates: "What follows naturally from this is that each disc would have to be tied to a unique Xbox Live account, else you could take a single disc and pass it between everyone you know and copy the game over and over. Since this is clearly not going to happen, each disc must then only install for a single owner."

 

It added: "Microsoft did say that if a disc was used with a second account, that owner would be given the option to pay a fee and install the game from the disc, which would then mean that the new account would also own the game and could play it without the disc."

 

Microsoft did not disclose what the second-user fee would amount too, and did not clarify further on the matter.

 

The article claims that there is no sweeping 'always-online' requirement for future Xbox One games.

 

Update: Jon Hicks, the editor of Official Xbox magazine, has claimed that pre-owned games will be un-installed from the previous owner's system and installed onto another's. It is not clear if this process would negate a pre-owned fee.

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[Guest chris davidosn]

I know this will be confirmed by release date, but, why would they cahrge a fee if to play it? if person buys, and installs on there system the givesthe disc to friend and they pay the fee to install and play, now this is assuming that the fee is low, lets say $10, and i know that isn't thge fee, just for argument sake. Ok, first person buys game at 70 dollars, now 2nd person installs for 10 dollars. microsoft just lost 10 60 dollars in this deal. and we know microsoft isn't going to lose money right. so I think keep it all the way it is now, requirement of disc in system to play, If the fee to play on another console is actually envoked and used I think Microsoft will be losing alot of consumers. just my opinion.

[wildfire C]

As long as we can play a game on a seperate console if we use the same account (if XBOX breaks and we need a new one)

[kill-time]

I can see this being bad, it definitely puts me off wanting an Xbox. Not because I use pre-owned games often (have maybe 3) but because I consider what I buy MINE to do what I want with it. If Microsoft did not want games to just be installed willy nilly on hard drives everywhere, why they hell are they making us do it in the first place? It's not all about hacking.

 

It's more likely to be hacked on the HDD. Secondly I can see store's paying a levy of maybe $20 for pre-owned to MS to make the game more appealing for resale, store pays MS to get the new key or whatever, then store add $30 on top for themselves. Nice little money maker.

[DarthWeasel]

this will kill the used game market and renting a game will become a thing of the past. also if i buy a game i'd prefer to have the right to do with it whatever i please. im betting there will be a lot of people hacking the xbox one.