metered billing.. wave of the future
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > I read some scary stuff the other day along a similar vein. > > Basically if you're selling 25mbps then you'll need a 4:1 oversubscription > ratio to support peak hours hi def streaming without complaint. > As adoption of 4K video increases, that ratio will approach 1:1. You'll > have to either start supplying 100meg, or start billing for > consumption....or jack the price way up. > > They were looking only at streaming video trends, and didn't even consider > stuff like this. > > > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "Jeremy" <jeremysmi...@gmail.com> > To: af@afmug.com > Sent: 6/21/2017 1:03:09 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ready for the Xbox one X and 100GB games? > > Yeah, this sucks for us. Even worse, many of these games come out with > dual licenses so that you can play on Windows 10 or XB1 for the same > purchase. I bought a couple games and checked it out. It was amazing to > be able to just continue my Halo Wars right where I left off on my laptop, > but it was double the download size. This makes Forza potentially 200GB, > without DLC. When you are providing customers 300-500GB per month without > overages it makes heavy Xbox customers very quickly switch providers. I'm > not sure if that is a blessing or a curse. For now, it has not been a > gigantic churn issue for us, but the future of 4K content will likely hit > us all pretty hard. > > My main issue with this is that purchasing a disc is not an option. I > initially bought discs, only to find that even after ripping them to the > hard drive, I have to walk down to the network closet to insert the disc. > Digitally purchased games can just be loaded from a menu, like all of the > hacked consoles. There is no option to 'upgrade' to a digital license if > you have purchased a disc. Also, if you own multiple Xbox One consoles > (say at home and at work), you can play any of your games on either > console, at any time, just not simultaneously. Discs are now useless to > me. The only way to get this digital license is to download it from the > Internet (or hack the console...not yet an option). This has been a big > bummer to heavy Xbox users when they get hit with massive overages, and > they usually switch to Comcast. > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:19 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> This will be the new normal with the next generation Xbox, when many >> customers start bringing them home... >> >> https://m.hardocp.com/news/2017/06/18/forza_motorsport_7_wil >> l_be_100gb_download >> >> >> >
