When Microsoft first unveiled the Xbox One in 2013, it detailed plans to allow friends and family members to share digitally purchased games by tying those purchases to the Gamertag and/or console they were made on. Unfortunately, digital game sharing was tied to the digital rights management plans Microsoft announced at the same time. These plans were so wildly unpopular that the entire thing was scrapped before the console ever launched, seemingly killing the idea of digital game sharing on Xbox One.

However, according to recent comments made to Game Informer by Xbox Partner Director of Program Management Mike Ybarra, reports of the feature’s death may have been premature.

“Steam has a great family plan right now. We’re looking at both from a Windows standpoint — well, what’s our policy of the Windows Store?” explained Ybarra. “How many people can play concurrent? How do you share? We’re going to merge those two topologies soon so that a whole new model for how you share games across that will be in place. We’re actively working on that now to try to figure [it out], but we want to get to a much simpler model and potentially one that lets you do more… have a little bit more freedom in what you can and can’t do.”

Ybarra stopped short of offering details on what that model might look like or when it might be deployed, but his statement confirms that Microsoft is at least revisiting Xbox One digital game sharing.

Source: Game Informer