Glorious prophet crazy buttocks on a train: TRUTHFACT M$ buying 3rd party to show , DRM worse than stated, LIVE paywall still exists.

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4k1x3r said:

makingmusic476 said:

One of the other gaffers that's prone to revealing things had this to say about DRM:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=62300963#post62300963

I've also heard multiple times in the last few days that the microsoft DRM news is going to get worse.


I honestly can't even imagine how it could...? Are the discs going to fucking explode?

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=62301841#post62301841

I have no idea. The last I heard anything about sony was before I inadvertently started a rather noisy movement. Not that I regret that - it's been awesome and hopefully does some good... but I have not heard *anything* about DRM inside of sony since then. That leaky boat got plugged up quick.


I'm feeling optimistic. That doesn't really mean anything though.

Edit:

And a speculative post by the same guy:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=62303011&postcount=1248

There are an a lot of signs that we are going to get good news. 


1. Yoshida making the joke about DRM (vita game) on Twitter. He isn't dumb... that would be pretty shitty if they were planning on delivering bad news.

2. OMGWTFBBQ's leak that EA is giving MS exclusives (games and DLC) because MS were pushing DRM and sony wouldn't commit to it (this was during the winter, if I understood OMG's post correctly)

3. Having not committed to it publically they've been able to watch all the feedback against MS - and then our protest - and then even more feedback against MS after they put up the website explaining it better. Can they really see all of that and think it's a good business decision?


Common sense is telling me that the PS4 will have little to no new DRM over the ps3. But, of course, Sony hasn't always been known for having common sense...

I was drinking water. Almost died!!

I don't get why Microsoft would be the one coming up with this idea of DRM, most of the games are selling better on their system, I don't see why they would feel the need for this. :/

Nope, It's very genre specific. FPS and WRPG sell best on 360. Action, adventure, JRPG, fighting, non-American sports games sell better on PS3. I'm guessing even GTAV will sell better on PS3 now that there's install base parity.

One of my guesses for how DRM is worse than they make out is that for as long as a game is tied to one account it's not possible to get achievements on any account (family members, and playing over at your friend's house). After all if game lending is a thing that requires formal transfer of the game to another account, why would anyone do that if you can use an account on any Xbone to play the game.

Some people also seem to be thinking that you'll be able to play a game on a different Xbone via the cloud, rather than having to take the disc and install the game on the second Xbone. So that would be like a person's Xbone acting like an Onlive server. That ain't going to happen. I also suspect it won't be carte blanche on this.

On the PS4 side, every passing day that SOny doesn;t come out and say that there's no change from PS3 to PS4 wrt DRM I worry.  E3 should tell us a lot. If Sony says nothing, then my worry will escalate exponentially. So I really need Sony to come totally clean on their DRM approach. Say once and for all whether they're being totally neutral on DRM or if they're implementing some DRM supporting middleware into the console.