20th June 2013, 5:42 PM
http://www.heyuguysgaming.com/news/12507...-must-read
Above is an MS person explaining how family sharing was going to work. Apparently it was going to have a 1-hour timer (he says 15-60 minutes depending on the game, other sources say 60 minutes flat). Yeah, that "one hour offline play at a friends' house" thing? That applied to the "family share plan" as well, MS just didn't tell us that. Apparently they had not decided exactly how many times other family members could launch a game hadn't been decided, but that time limit was there per launch (though you could save as normal, and it was the full game, unlike demos).
So yeah, losing "family sharing" isn't quite as bad as some of the MS apologists believed. Also, the stuff the guy says about how used games have to die because publishers need more income is pretty much completely horrible for the reasons I explained a couple of posts ago.
Above is an MS person explaining how family sharing was going to work. Apparently it was going to have a 1-hour timer (he says 15-60 minutes depending on the game, other sources say 60 minutes flat). Yeah, that "one hour offline play at a friends' house" thing? That applied to the "family share plan" as well, MS just didn't tell us that. Apparently they had not decided exactly how many times other family members could launch a game hadn't been decided, but that time limit was there per launch (though you could save as normal, and it was the full game, unlike demos).
So yeah, losing "family sharing" isn't quite as bad as some of the MS apologists believed. Also, the stuff the guy says about how used games have to die because publishers need more income is pretty much completely horrible for the reasons I explained a couple of posts ago.
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