14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft is trying to encourage developers to showcase its games on the Xbox Live store by introducing demo and trial unlock support for the Xbox One computer entertainment system.
A lot of users have been asking for the feature to be reintroduced, as the game trial unlock functionality was present on the company’s previous generation console, the Xbox 360, and now Microsoft is showing once again that it’s willing to listen to its fans, if that’s what it takes to keep them.
The functionality allows gamers to download a trial version of a game from Xbox Live, as a free demo, play it, and should they choose to purchase it, they simply unlock the full game without having to download it all over again.
“When Xbox One launched you could do game demos and you could do games. But we didn’t have the functionality that was on Xbox 360 - that ‘trial’ experience where you could download a demo and then convert it [to a full version]. But now we do,” Chris Charla, Microsoft's ID@Xbox chief, has told Eurogamer.
For now, there aren’t any games that make use of the feature, but any future title is free to do so from now on. Considering Charla’s statement that there are hundreds of games currently in development on ID@Xbox, expect many such demos to pop up in the following months.