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Edited by lonepaul2441: 5/24/2013 4:09:54 PM
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This is how Xbox One game trade-ins will work *Update- good news no fee*

[quote]If you want to trade in an Xbox One game you will need to find a shop that has agreed to Microsoft's terms and is therefore connected to the Xbox One cloud. The game will be registered as traded in and will be wiped from your Xbox Live account. The shop can resell it for whatever price it likes but the game's publisher now takes a cut and so does Microsoft, a source-based MCV report revealed. Anyone buying that second-hand game will need to pay an activation fee of £35, a separate unconfirmed report on ConsoleDeals.co.uk claimed.[/quote] Except for that activation fee it's a clever idea, get a cut of the profit in a re-sell and it'll probably keep new used games (1st few months) around the same price be it £10 cheaper. Also if you go and buy a game from 10 years ago the developer still gets a cut just like steam. [quote][/quote]Update: You, the shopper, won't have to pay the activation fee for a used Xbox One game - the shop will. Therefore, the price you see on a second-hand Xbox One game in a shop is the price you'll pay to be able to play it. That's what a high-ranking UK industry source explained to me this afternoon. The reason there's all this confusion is because Microsoft hasn't decided what the activation fee will be yet. The £35 figure reported in the story below sounds too high - perhaps it includes the shop's sale price as well.

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  • £35?! to activate a used game just wow greedy of Microsoft. Might as well buy the game name as the fee is price of a new game! Everyone will be going to PS4 anyways and I Hope Sony do not do anything like this. I can imagine the tears of fanboys when Sony comes out and says you will be able to play used games just as before. This will make a lot of xbox fanboys come to the ultimate next gen console the PS4.

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