There you are, staring in disbelief at your massive collection of Xbox Live Arcade games that has slowly accumulated over the years – a collection that until recently you forgot even existed. And therein lies the problem with digital copies of video games. Once you've completed them, or their appeal has long since passed, there's virtually very little you can do with them. When all we really want to do is loan them to a friend, or even exchange them at the local GameStop for even the most minuscule amount, the fact is we simply can't. But why? And will there ever be a way to bypass this seemingly gigantic obstacle that plagues owning digital content?
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Not everything is Microsoft versus Sony. I get most of my Microsoft Rewards through Bing search, and those rewards were gutted by Microsoft after they added A.I. to Bing. I personally think that if a company is going to burden users with ads, like on Bing and the Xbox homepage, some of those ad dollars should be shared with users. Otherwise I’ll stick with services that don’t have ads.
Online multiplayer is back for 11 more games thanks to Insignia's XBL 1.0 replacement service running on Original Xbox consoles and the Xemu emulator on PC. Multiplayer, voice chat, leaderboards, etc. have been a monthly addition for many games from Xbox's past library thank to the team at Insignia.live! The 11 new games are now playable online once again after 13+ years.
Nah they will be tho look at rscs3 they have psn made in there emulator why not xenia bro?
Booo!! I was hoping that was Rainbow Six: Black Arrow...Boo!! again. I thought this coming to Xbox. I don't even read it I was so excited.
That would be pretty cool. I'd take advantage of digital rentals for sure.
I'd love digital rentals, one of the many features I like about OnLive. While they're at it grab the Arena mode/brag clips too.
@donniebaseball
Ahh that's true, I didn't even think of that.
I believe Direct2Drive offers some games for rental, but I'm not sure I'd want to rent a game, download it (let's say between 3 to 12GB for PC games) and only have it for a couple of days. I know many people won't have an issue with that though, but since my ISP has a cap, I'd rather rent my games on disc for now.
Steam should do this.
By what the article is talking about, MS will allow people to rent XBLA titles to their friends over XBL, we're talking about $1 to $15 games, with MS taking a portion of the rental fee. Old titles that likely are no longer selling outright.