| mike_intellivision said: I can understand the rationale. But you can't escape the consequences.
If you have to verify used games to play them -- then there will not be any value to old games once the servers are off-line. If you have to check-in periodically (once a day) on line to play the system -- then there will not be any (much) value to old systems when the servers go off-line.
In other words, you no longer own your hardware or sofotware. You use it so long as the company sees fit to have servers running.
To me, if I am interepreting this correctly, it makes spending $400 or more on a lnog-term rental of a machine that will be useless (and have no disposal value) in 5 or 6 years a very questionable investment.
Mike from Morgantown |
No, because at this point, we still have one true video game company that's still in business....Nintendo. The haters can say what they want about Nintendo, but they're not some huge corporation that dabbles in video games....video games are all they do and they've made more money in the business than any other company ever has.
