Adinnieken on 06 April 2013
| flagstaad said: Required online conection to even play. That one I cannot believe. They are officially throwing the rising markets for good. The other ones, required Kinect (it comes with the console anyway), and blocking of used games (maybe limited, maybe total)... those could happen, but I don't see how they can enforce the second one (blocking) without the requirement for online connection.... so I think is a partial blocking of all online features for used games. |
I think they effectively kill the second-hand market by undermining it. If a disc-based game is limited to x number of installs on x number of devices by x number of users, then the market for second-hand game discs becomes unreasonably risky for the gamer and retailer.
