Remember on Xbox 360 how you were able to download a trial of Arcade titles and then pay to convert it to the full version if you liked? Well now that functionality is available on Xbox One.
ID@Xbox boss Chris Charla revealed the availability in an interview with Eurogamer. “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],” he said.
“[N]ow we do. In the same way that we update the Xbox One OS every month, they update the development system every month – or regularly, anyway. So that’s something that we recently turned on. I don’t think we’ve seen any ID@Xbox games yet that have shipped with trials, but we may well in the future. It’s something that’s open to everybody.”
Charla also revealed that Microsoft is working hard to ensure the visibility of ID@Xbox titles on the Games Store improves. “There are literally hundreds of ID@Xbox games in development right now. Many will be out this year, but still more have been locked in for release further in the future.”
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