Xbox One the Facts on Game Ownership

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Xbox One will introduce day and date digital/retail delivery of games.

Discs will "continue to be a great way to install your games quickly" - but you can also download them.

The games you buy are tied to your account.

That way, you can sign into any Xbox One device and play all your games.

Any games you assign to your owned device can be played by anyone who turns that device on, whether they are signed in as you, themselves, or a guest.

You can also allow up to ten friends or family log in to your library remotely from any Xbox One and play your games.

You can even be playing different games from your library at the same time from different locations.

Xbox One, again, is not built with anti-preowned measures.

But Microsoft has transferred the decision about preowned games to publishers.

Its up to them if you can trade their games in at retailers.

Microsoft is not charging a fee to retailers, publishers, or consumers for enabling transfer of these games - and has been clear it is not taking a slice of the cash.

Its first-party games can be traded in with no extra fees or stipulations or second user charges.

But it is allowing publishers to charge if they wish.

And it looks like trade-ins can only be done at 'participating retailers'.

"Third party publishers may opt in or out of supporting game resale and may set up business terms or transfer fees with retailers" is how Microsoft describes it.

You can still lend your games to your friends, and it doesn't cost money to transfer/lend the licence to them.

But there are stipulations: "you can only give games to people who have been on your friends list for at least 30 days and each game can only be given once."

So if you lend a game to a friend, get it back, and they ask to borrow it again, they will have to buy their own copy.

But in many ways a lot of this is moot - Microsoft says that 'loaning and renting games' isn't a feature available at launch of Xbox One.

That suggests that this plan has been tweaked in the days since the Xbox One reveal.

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Sure, cool, great, 10 peeps can acsess your library from any XB1! Great, riiiight?
But think of this: when the XB1 servers go down in about 7 years, you'll have a useless black box and some cases lying around in your TV room due to the fact it can't perform it's interwebs check.
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