I..I..I'm sorry
But...That!, Was the most biggest pile of steaming rotting horse shit I have ever read. Let me explain as to why "I" am scared to death about this....(kind of a long read)
As a gamer for over 20 years, I have hardly seen any change until now (asides from the arrival of online gaming). Gaming was just simply playing a console. You plug it in, turn it on, and pop in a game and play. That was it.
Now it seems that you plug it in, turn it on, launch a game and play.....But wait-first the console tells you have to come to it's terms of agreement. This agreement tells you no longer own the game (physical or digital) and that your given the "right" to play the game so as long its tied to their servers and not the console/machine itself? Bull shit!
Judging from this article, this writer seems to like the idea of companies controlling, and restricting the consumer even more in the disguise of great deals and sales; forcing them to pay more money than they have to while only giving them the "right" to play and not also owning it. This is why I don't like Steam (or that dreaded game tap). They're doing this just to cover their own failures and screw ups. Just because their over priced/budget AAA game didn't sell well, we're forced to pay more for a failed product? No thanks.
Not only that but the day that we witness the death of used games (physical copies of course), is the day we see the impending death of retro gaming. No longer will people be able to hunt for those sought after games they want for their collection. Physical copies of games will be even more valuable. They will be like a prized fossil where only small quantities would be in exsitence.
Now I'm all for change, but if this is the change that the industry wants to adapt where you can't even own the game anymore; all for the sake of a saving some $ (for both sides), I'm quitting gaming and sticking to the extinct retro-gaming.
*stands like Leonidas from 300* Let the flaming/criticizing commence.
