| JoeTheBro said: Why did you have to mix sarcasm in with your serious bit of games being a license? Anyway games are exactly like movies, music, and other creative works. If one of these industries tries something, expect the others to follow. However this also shows games will never be sold by the minute. No way would the movie industry be ok with this so we can assume the game industry is more or less the same. |
The game being a license (all software is) was just there to clarify. It was a side note from the original post. From a practical standpoint, the way people have games now, they own it. Legally, it is a license and it can change. It is just now that people think they own.
My sarcasm only comes out from my thought on what I was writing here, which I don't agree with. I wrote it from the opinion of the industry, trends i am seeing now on where it has gone beyond merely opposing piracy to actually cheering the industry on for blocking resale of licenses to software people don't own, and hatred of Gamestop for facilitating this. This has been a shift in opinion here. In regards to game rentals, the videogame industry, like the movie industry fought against they. They actually won a court case which forbad the likes of video rental stores from including copies of game manuals. They didn't like it. They have wanted everyone to buy what they have, even to try it. They don't want any use uncompensated. But, once they locked down, they will then push to continue to get money for what they produce. You see DLC being pushed, and season passes, because they want to continue to get paid for what they have. This is the motivation and the thinking.
So, sarcasm here underscores what is going on, so thus I used sarcasm.
