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kitler53 on 07 June 2013
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BenVTrigger said:
kitler53 said:
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which is great and all, choice is awesome. ..but MS isn't putting a vast DRM infrastucture in place to protect free-to-play games.  there will be plenty of $60 (..or even $70 according to one rumor) games as well.  ..especially among the games that gamers want to play.  destiny, halo, CoD, uncharted won't be going free-to-play.

I agree.

But within 8 years physical media will be gone from gaming. Its simply inevitable at this point. Cheaper production, quicker to consumer, cut out the middleman, undermine the used market. Its a businesses wet dream even if it isnt a consumers. Steam and IOS have already proven it could work and PS4 and X1 are obviously designed to be the bridege in the gap from physical to digital. Their entire infasctructure is designed around this concept.

which businesses?  certainly not gamestop or any other games retailer.  certainly not gamefly or any other rental service.  there will be opposition to this and the retail side has power,. especially if ps4 doesn't do this sort of DRM manditory as sony has stated.   (...and before you tell me about that patent and that "up to third party" quotes let me remind you that the patent is a hardware solution.  if sony doesn't plan to do anything and watermarking feature isn't in the hardware third parties will be very hard pressed to establish their own online verification server setup.  hard enough that it just won't happen.)

back to my point,..  if there is an option at retail and retailers perfer the non-drm version and consumers perfer the non-drm version MS/EA/Activision and anyone else having a wet dream over this will have to go fuck themselves.   EA will be bankrupt within a year if 80% of the consumers go wiiU/ps4 and EA goes full xbone.  ..so they won't (in that senario).     and then physical media's lifespan will be lengthened.

 

it's like the minidisc.  the market rejected it so we didn't go there.  just because a businessman has an idea doesn't mean they get their way.  ..or maybe it's more like digital music and DRM,.   it took a while but we (consumers) won the war.