The document also includes details about a way for players to get a digital version of a game that they already own on a physical disc, which The Verge’s Tom Warren reported on in July. The document says that if a player puts an Xbox One or Series game on disc into an Xbox One or Series X console with a disc drive, they’ll be granted a digital license that’s bound to “that disc and the player’s account.” The license will stay with a player across Xbox devices, but if the disc “changes hands,” the license will transfer to the new person. That should mean that gamers can still trade and sell discs; once the original owner of a disc does so, they can’t play the digital version they got from that disc anymore.
Remember when they were trying to charge people $15 effectively to transfer a licence for second hand games? There was an uproar and they canned the idea.
What a fair and simple system. Sony, take notes!
We’ve slid so far that the Xbox One reveal with internet verification of every disc is now celebrated.
Damn, you’re right. That frog has been thoroughly boiled.
It’s brilliant - all the fun of owning your own physical copy but with new and exciting extra verification steps.
Remember when they were trying to charge people $15 effectively to transfer a licence for second hand games? There was an uproar and they canned the idea.
I wonder how much they’re gonna charge this time.