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[Keile]

Originally Posted by sodacat

What I heard at the reveal, and what I thought would be legit because it sounded reasonable, was that xbone games would work like ultraviolet blurays. The game would come with a code that let you download a digital version, and then you could use the disc for whatever. Maybe you'd watch the movie off the disc. Maybe you'd sell the disc, and someone else would be able to watch the disc, but they'd no longer have the UV code.

Instead you can trade the game to one person, and only one person ever, who you have verified is a person you know. That copy can then never be traded to anyone else again.

The reveal made it clear that buying the physical disc simply allowed you to install the game without having to download it. The disc contained the install, so that if you have shitty internet speed you can still install it....since shitty internet speed still lets the Xbox speak to their server and register the game, it just downloads the files slow.

The registering works far simpler than you think: It simply goes, "HEY! He bought this game! Let him play it!" no code is required, simply authorization to play the game. Once your account is flagged for that game you can play it any time, even if you uninstall it and lose your disc and take someone elses disc to reinstall. All that matters if that your account is flagged as having paid for that game at some point in time. So in reality what you pay for isn't the game per-say, but the authorization.

This is why you can give a friend the disc, and they can install it but they cant play it without that authorization.