This is literally 'The Cloud'. The Xbox One has managed to render it perfectly. I would not recommend breathing it in, however.

EA has been enjoying keeping players on the $60 a year subscription pretty much unopposed for years now, and there is not much reason for them to change that model unless they had a way to make even more money from it. If they weren't in an exclusive agreement with the NFL, then maybe something might change, but for…

From my understanding you can still digitally purchase games on both systems, which ties them to your account, the same way Steam work.

EA isn't complaining about getting $60 a year for a product that isn't much different than the previous year. If they went to a completely digital model, I have my doubts that anything would change at all.

I'll pass on buying this game. They still owe me money from SimCity.

That analogy doesn't work because music and video games operate on vastly different business models. I will listen to a NIN song I bought 20 years ago because it only takes up 3 minutes of my life and doesn't really get old, but a video game I bought 20 years ago is not quite the same experience because it takes…

Why wouldn't they want to stop all sharing? They make the most money from zero sharing.

Really Kotaku? I mean come on. You could at least try to be sensitive to those of us who have schizophrenic family members who try to eat credit cards. This is insensitive bullcrap.

I'm offended by the new picture. My mother is a schizophrenic who routinely tries to eat credit cards, and I feel like this is insensitive to her.

Yep, Oculus Rift support has been in there from the beginning. It wasn't even a stretch goal.

Can you tell me a reason why a publisher would ever allow their game to be paid for once, and shared digitally out to 10 different people? Publishers hate used games, but this seems like it would have an even worse financial impact than used games would.

Why would you need to trust the person you are adding to your family sharing? Seems like if you're the loner type, you could google 'Xbox One Family Sharing Group' and find groups of people who specifically 'family' each other to be able to play free games. It it may be something more organized like a craigslist ad…

Yeah I agree. It's impossible that there isn't some sort of catch in all this that we don't know about. Since this plan is probably not going to happen anymore, MS isn't beholden to tell the truth about it's former details since it would only foster even more bad will towards them.

All of them. This game has the potential to bring out your inner misanthrope, by making you realize that the uninfected are far worse than the infected. Fuck the Fireflies and their doctors.

Ignore the PR and look at the logic. Ask any publisher if they're OK with a system that lets one person buy a game, and 10 of his friends are given a means to play the whole thing, for free (although not all at once). They will all tell you NO.

It makes no sense because publishers are upset about used games eating into their profits, and here comes a system that, supposedly, allows the games to be digitally loaned to anyone without charging anything. The consumer would win, but it is simply unfathomable to think this would cause less loss of profit than…

I recall hearing somewhere that you had to have the friend on your list for 30 days before they could use it. It still doesn't explain though why any publisher in their right mind would be OK with Microsoft halving their profits by means of this feature.

The question you don't ask is this: Why would publishers allow Microsoft to set up a system where one person buys a game, and potentially 10 people can play it in an unlimited fashion without buying it? This is worse than the used game 'epidemic' that is supposedly killing publishers and developers.

At the same time, why would any publisher tolerate their full game being digitally loaned to 10 people without them receiving any revenue for it? Used game discs are one thing, but this feature would mean an even greater loss of revenue. Maybe they abandoned the whole thing because someone woke up and realized how…