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Originally Posted by Zaku77

It was way too convoluted and explained like crap. It was more restrictive than steam in some ways (limited time for offline play) but it was also more open in some ways. You could actually trade in games (albeit to select retailers) and you could give them away (albeit only once) you could also gameshare with 10 different people--although I'm of the mind that it would have ended up being little more than extended demos. There were plenty of back and forths between it and steam, but due to it being more open in some ways and more closed in others, I really wouldn't call it any more or less restrictive than your standard pc DRM schema.

24 hour check-in is my major complaint

Even just on a purely principle level that is a terrible restriction

I need MS's daily permission to play my games

Great thanks for that

The game trading was innovative but technically they legally had to allow that if they ever wanted to sell it in Europe

Europe has laws that mandate the trading and selling of software licenses

A case against steam in europe has either gone through or in progress

Don't remember but most people expect steam to add game trading of some sort to align with european laws

And yes family sharing was likely PR spin at the last minute

If it was as good as claimed it would've been on E3 show or mentioned at E3 in detail

I will almost certainly buy an X1 now likely in a year or year and a half when Halo comes out and things with the system have been sussed out

Still dislike the mandatory kinect attachment though as that drives up the cost so much