Polygon: Xbox One policy "gross, despicable, greedy, pathetic, cowardly"

[Zappykins]

DigitalDevilSummoner said:

Zappykins said:
It's just a shift, and gaming is becoming more like everything else.

You get access to a virtual world, Kinde's - you own a license for the book - World of Warcraft - always online - and you have to wait in a cue, itunes - you own the license to the music. But people are freaking out because they want to hate Microsoft.

The new Xbox One is an all digital machine in reality. Yes, it's a shift from the game disk to your loginID. And just like itunes and the others, in a few years everyone will be used to it. A few years ago DJ's and friends had to carry everything to bring music around - it was heavy, bulky and would break. Now it's all digital and people love it.

It will be the same in a few years with gaming and people talk about how great it is not to have to carry around all those disk yet still have access to their entire library.

So that is my advantage, this is what I gain from the most restricting piece of hardware ever concieved ?

I am relieved from the unbelievable burden of carrying the disc around.

Sal.Paradise said:.

I agree, just like the PS3 targeted gamers with second jobs. 

snapalisious !

 

I don't think you understood my post.  It's not the most restrictive piece of hardware, not even in gaming. 

But it is a console catching up with what many other devices have already been for years.  Something like 30% of game sales on the Xbox are already digital.

That was, what I consider, one of the big changed Bill Gates made to computer tech - that you don't OWN the program, but a license for it.  It has lowered program's cost, but changed how you access them.  It means more people have access to it - but under limits.

And how did that work out for Microsoft?