Seeing as how Sony as a whole has a lost a lot of money, them going digitally will save them money. It cuts back on man power to manufacture disks and less disks end up in landfills because they are very toxic.
badgenome said:
I'm not a huge fan of online passes, but the way they've been handled so far seems to be that if you buy it new, you get to play online as a part of the deal. If not, well, that'll be $10. Seems a relatively reasonable way of handling used games, if a bit of a pain in the ass. Has there been a case of an online pass locking people out of single player content yet? No, but we seem to be heading in that direction, especially since games are becoming more and more "social," so more of the game is gonna be online. The upcoming Sim City is a good example of this, you have to be online to play it. Of course, anti-consumer behavior has to be stood up to regardless, but I'm afraid that the power shifts far too much toward the content providers in a streaming-only future. Steam is great and all, but Valve isn't perfect - far from it. I don't see how it gives them that much more control. What's to stop a publisher from making their games require a constant internet connection and an activation code? |
| thranx said: But that isn't the fault of digital distribution. That is the fault of supporting a shitty company. Steam seems to do it fine with no issues. Amazon does too. But origin from what i have heard is a joke. I won't use it so I can't buy any games that require it. So no BF3 for me(unless i get it on a console). But Steam is very good. Amozon is very good too as it is basically jut a download client. I haven't really used Xbox live digital distribution yet or sony's so i can't comment on them. |
I agree to an extent, and there are certainly upsides to digital distribution, but it's inevitable that it moves the needle in favor of publishers and platform holders over the consumers. It's just the nature of the beast.
hmmm i agree with both side....
but you have to consider technology availability and price in the future.... in not to long hosting the entire library of every single game ever created won't be an issue... so if it goes streaming for real you will have lifetime access no doubt...
heck i'm even sure that one day you'll have a second hand market for digital copies or even streaming access.... it's right around the corner..... paper and plastic will probably disappear by the end of the century one way or the other.... digital and cloud everything is the only way....
| Andrespetmonkey said: I don't see how it gives them that much more control. What's to stop a publisher from making their games require a constant internet connection and an activation code? |
Nothing, other than consumer backlash. The internet has already enabled companies to do a lot of unseemly stuff. An all digital future is just going to be that much worse, and an all streaming future, that much worse still. No more being able to find games that are out of print (the digital version of this being that the company has gone under or there is an IP dispute and the game has been removed from DD services). No more being able to sell a game because you didn't like it. No more being able to shop around for the best deal on platform exclusive games. I'm not saying it's the end of the world or that there aren't some economic forces still at play, of course, but I'm convinced that it's still going to be worse than what we've had.
"paper and plastic will probably disappear by the end of the century one way or the other"
sadly it will happen way earlier this century
Well didigal distribution will grow but the people which buy a a version in the shop will always exist.
Thats only wishfull thinking by the companys.
| SunofKratos said: Well didigal distribution will grow but the people which buy a a version in the shop will always exist. Thats only wishfull thinking by the companys. |
nope cause if you don't have a drive on the said bix yoy won't have hard copies to buy in the 1st place...
plus as said before a lot of the biproduct of crude won't be available for ever so it will be atechnical constraint anyway... we will have to rethink the way we consume sooner rather than later...
| Significant_leap said: "paper and plastic will probably disappear by the end of the century one way or the other" sadly it will happen way earlier this century |
why sadly...??? i can't wait... we are a time were we will be forced in great scientifuc achievement.... since we've been using crude for 80% of what we do we've been stalling on so many things... i can't wait.... it'll be rough at first but we'll see it through....
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