| TX109 said: i have done steam. it ok, but i still much prefer an actual copy of a game . and at least with steam i know my game will always be there and not randomly gone cuz the server shut down...and i don't have the money for an iPhone. i guess my biggest problem is that its not a hard copy. believe it or not, people actually do like owning their own games. when you pay for these games on Onlive, you just buying a ticket to play them, not the actuall game. as well, how long you have the game is mostly dictated by how long the service provider chooses to stream the game. if i find a game that is truly memorable to me and i want to keep around for a long time, im SOL if the service decides to end the servers for that game. i still do not believe that this is the immediate future of games. but if it is, then im done with gaming as soon as all the major console makers pick this up. i prefer to own the games i buy. ill go retro and play all the games i missed in the past. |
You know, people said exactly the same thing about music and movies. Yet music seems to be almost only digital download/streaming and movies seem to be heading in that direction. Hard copies won't go away all together, but I get the distinct feeling digital download/streaming is going to be huge.
And are you really going to give up a hobby because you don't like the distribution method? What happens when all your physical retro copies break/scratch/degrade?
