BenVTrigger said:
tiffac said:
BenVTrigger said:
Soleron said:
They plan to "educate the customer" on in hy DRM is good? Good luck. |
That is indeed their goal. No idea if it will have any success or not but that is what the X1 is designed to do. There is already no rights with digital titles. When you download a game off iOS, Steam, or PSN / XBLA you cant resell it. Its yet another obstacle in the way that the consumer isnt fully used to yet.
If MS can somehow convince the general consumer to get used to not being able to resell or lend physical media they will be less likely to fight them over digital rights of games. As I said MS is trying to train the consumer to embrace digital only model over the next 5 or so years. For better or for worse.
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But there are ways to share digital games. I mean MS is doing the 10 share family thing. On the current consoles you can log in your account on your friends console and redownload the games that you have already purchased and he can then install it on his account or play it off yours.
So I do not see the reason for this training thing with regards to restricting the Physical media and does the exhaustion doctrine even apply to digital content?
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There are sharing systems in place with digital but they are still restricted. Its not a wholly free market where you can do whatever you want with your property like there is with physical media.
Its a question that is going to take HUGE focus over the next 10 years and not just In gaming. There is going to be a lot of discussion about what we own and what rights we have as consumers in an all digital market.
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These are all good and fair points, but why does gaming companies have to make it so damn hard, where it seems every other media, books, tv, music exist digitally and physically with no issue.
