Posted on 06/29/2013 at 06:30 PM
| Filed Under Feature
Most of us have no problem with the "Steam model". The problem is microsoft had a lot of red tape restrictions along with it. Also, we don't know how "great" the family plan could have been because MS was so obscure about it in the beginning. Now they can simply make something up to tell us how great it was just to redirect an angry lynch mob at the gamers who rebelled so hard against them in the first place.
Online sharing and online distribution are great ideas but not when there's a 24 hour check, 1 hour check when playing games at a friend's house, and a limitation put upon consumers when it comes to which retailers they can buy from. Add all this atop charging indie game developers fees to patch their own games, region locking,and the possibility ot MS being in bed with the NSA and it's easy to understand why so many people were upset.
It had nothing to do with "gamers refusing to accept the future". We simply didn't want to lose consumer rights and have our privacy violated.