Sony: Moving Towards Digital Distribution Is A "Natural Progression"

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badgenome said:

Andrespetmonkey said:

Really? The only real issue I can think of is maybe not being to go back and play really old games, since the servers may be down or whatever. Personally that's not a problem, I never go back that far, the farthest I've gone this gen is playing Fallout 3 in 2011.

I'm looking forward to it.

How can giving the content provider complete control over the content be a good thing? There's already problems enough with digital distribution, like people getting banned from the EA forums and losing access to their Origin games. Fuck that shit. Maybe I'm just old, but games as a service rather than a good sounds beyond horrible to me.

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.