Share your game library with up to 10 Family members

[AvalonX]

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/06/microsoft-defends-the-xbox-ones-licensing-used-game-policies/
Since its announcement, there has been some confusion over the details of sharing your Xbox One game library with up to ten "family members." Mehdi couldn't give comprehensive details, but he did clarify some things.
For one, a family member doesn't have to be a "blood relative," he said, eliminating the extremely unlikely possibility that the Xbox One would include a built-in blood testing kit. For another, they don't have to live in the primary owner's house—I could name a friend that lives 3,000 miles away as one of my "family members" Mehdi said.
You'll be able to link other Xbox Live accounts as having shared access to your library when you first set up a system and will also be able to add them later on (though specific details of how you manage these relationships is still not being discussed). The only limitation, it seems, is that only one person can be playing the shared copy of a single game at any given time. All in all, this does sound like a pretty convenient feature that's more workable than simply passing discs around amongst friends who are actually in your area.

Also, from Penny Arcade: http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/xbox-one-allows-you-to-share-games-with-ten-family-members-but-some-details

Just like today, a family member can play your copy of Forza Motorsport at a friend’s house. Only now, they will see not just Forza, but all of your shared games.  You can always play your games, and any one of your family members can be playing from your shared library at a given time.

If this is true, is this a game changer?

 

[jh1997sa]

If it is true, I suppose that it is better than not being able to share at all, but people should be able to lend their games to however many people they want.

 

[AvalonX]

If it is true, I suppose that it is better than not being able to share at all, but people should be able to lend their games to however many people they want.

True, it doesn't make the DRM any better but trying to calculate the TCO for both consoles needs to be taken into account as well.  Especially for those of us that have kids.  I am not paying subs for 3 people on 2 consoles.  

 

[Ollivander]

I don't think this changes the outlook of the Xbox One to much.  In the end, there's still a limit to used games, and if you have access to a shared library, imagine the space requirements it'll take too keep the games saved on all systems linked.  

Also, if only one person can play at any one time, that destroys any hope for co-op/competitive gaming among family.  

 

[daenerys]

This is pretty interesting though, you could just get your 10 closest friends to all go in together, share everything! Xbox communism for all! I'm very put off by all of the DRM stuff I've heard so far about the Xbox, but this is actually pretty neat. But Ollivander makes a good point, I wonder if they'll limit it to one person accessing it at a time, and if you can play with them. Seems as if that'd be difficult with them on the same account as you. Gaming is so complicated on the Xbox One, even when stuff might be cool like, the level in which it complicates things majorly turns me off still.