enditall727 said:
Hypocritical people who claim to be against used game sales AND DRM? Im not sure if i've ever seen somebody like that so could you give some examples of the users you saw on here who actively do that?
I almost feel like you made that up at this point |
I'm referring to people who dislike the used games sales industry insofar as that the profits don't filter to the developer basically. There's plenty of those around likely half the userbase here who take gaming seriously and have a favourite developer etc.
I'm saying that the Xbox One provides a method so that developers can finally get what they are (in the minds of these users) due - a cut of the used game sales market.
This method comes at the inconvenience of the people that support the idea.
However my argument would be that these same people are en masse decrying the DRM used to enable this method to work as some kind of travesty and violation of rights. When at the end of the day, it is all but inevitable that DRM of this nature would be needed to enable it.
Therefore, to take the stance people are against the Xbox One is hypocritical, or at the very least fickle and a badly thought out opinion to share in the first place prior to the Xbox One announcment. Anyone who has given such a profit share consideration on an intellectual level would know that it would take heavy DRM to enable such a profit share.
I'm kinda stirring the pot here, but it goes back to not being able to please everyone (I am not pleased with the DRM)...but I and many others never advocated the destruction of used game sales and rambled on about how the developers should be entitled to some slice of that pie. I won't call out, it's been discussed every now and again with people who likely mean well saying that developers should get a cut, but they really should have considered what this meant to them, because they aren't happy about it now.
It makes me think of people who think the idea of renewable energy is brilliant...until a windfarm is built near them and they have to see it every day. Except in this case it's more personal. Certainly not making this stuff up, I've done the whole "calling people out" before. I certainly won't be naming anyone because there's no need, there's enough people here that are against all profits of used games sales going to the retailer alone to not need to.
Honestly surprised that nobody has posted sharing their view who take that stance.
