Microsoft Confirms 'Pre-Owned Fee' for Xbox One

Microsoft has confirmed that all Xbox One games will require mandatory installation onto the system's hard drive and, to install the same disc onto another user's drive, a fee must be paid.

Individual games will be tied to Xbox Live accounts, Microsoft said, meaning that the software giant can detect whether a game has been sold to a retailer and repurchased, or handed from one friend to another. In such instances, the second user must pay a fee.

"On the new Xbox, all game discs are installed to the HDD to play," a Microsoft representative told Wired.

The company added that, once discs are installed on the hard drive, games can be played without a disc being in the tray.

The Wired article then elaborates: "What follows naturally from this is that each disc would have to be tied to a unique Xbox Live account, else you could take a single disc and pass it between everyone you know and copy the game over and over. Since this is clearly not going to happen, each disc must then only install for a single owner."

It added: "Microsoft did say that if a disc was used with a second account, that owner would be given the option to pay a fee and install the game from the disc, which would then mean that the new account would also own the game and could play it without the disc."

Microsoft did not disclose what the second-user fee would amount too, and did not clarify further on the matter.

The article claims that there is no sweeping 'always-online' requirement for future Xbox One games

Source - CVG

With only a 500gb Hd?

What else did they say? Curious minds want to know that can't google this stuff at work.

Does this mean that if you have multiple accounts on a XB1 that you have to pay a fee for each account to play the game?

you xbox guys are going to need a teribite drive or more ! should be a option to install to drive or not ! but should play better on the drive as long as it is a decent drive !

X box 360 games will not work on the new X Box 1

X Box 1, part of Microsoft's new "Stackable" gaming consol series

NukeLaCoog wrote:

Does this mean that if you have multiple accounts on a XB1 that you have to pay a fee for each account to play the game?

I would think so.

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It added: "Microsoft did say that if a disc was used with a second account, that owner would be given the option to pay a fee and install the game from the disc, which would then mean that the new account would also own the game and could play it without the disc."

More on game fees-

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22623010

Sounds bitter sweet; great new graphics and engines but will probably need additional HDs, considering how big the next gen games must be.

And no more swapping games with friends. I know everyone's online these days, but what if you don't subscribe to XBL or don't have internet where you are.. how would you play your games??

The system needing to validate your games once per day is crap. Add to that the fact that you are licensing the game to one user and why wouldn't you just get a PC instead? The TV voice and movement functionality that they mention is already being announced for PCs using Windows 8 as well and you don't have a camera and always on voice recording on your PC.

Even if the games are cheap as they are on the PC, which I highly doubt, you can't update the hardware like you can on a PC. I was really considering getting the XBox this time around, but I don't see that happening now. I guess I'll wait for the full details to come out on both, but I was not impressed with XBox's offering yesterday.