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I don't really see how the features they removed are incompatible with not requiring online checkins every 24h and certainly not with the used game policy. I don't see why they couldn't have made the online checkins optional, but required to do any of the game sharing, and if you don't check in within 24h it just disables games that aren't yours and doesn't let other people play yours.

Sure, that could be gotten around but people are going to figure out how to pirate anyway.

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I think the problem happens when Person A buys a game disc and lends a digital copy to Person B. Person A then disconnects from the Internet and plays using the game disc and Person B plays with the 24H online check in. Now you have two people playing the same game at the same time with only one copy of the game bought.

how about this: before A can lend a digital copy to B, A must turn on his internet connection and tell MS's server that he is now lending to B.

B can now download A's game to play.

A cannot play his physical copy until B returns the copy back to the server (some state must be kept in A's console to remember this).

if B's connection goes down for more than some period (could less or more than 24hr, configurable by A), his copy is automatically relinquished.

does this solve the "only single active copy" issue?

How does that not happen with their old system? You buy a disc, install it, remove the disc (doesn't need to go back in) and then give it to someone else?

You need the disc in the tray to play games installed to the hard drive (that weren't digital downloads).

> Now you have two people playing the same game at the same time with only one copy of the game bought.

And?

Yeah, that is a much more reasonable way to think about it, and frankly the way it was presented was fuck you guys we are getting all of ours. I still dont think it was a messaging problem, it was a microsoft having a money boner problem. Plenty of people will be wailing about anything on the internet anyway. They doing something? You dont like it! They did something else to mollify you! Their cowardice has cost us great features!

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