“You’re all being played” Bleszinski slams Sony’s lack of used game blockers as a PR tactic

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Kyuu said:

Like Microsoft, Sony is giving the option for publishers to go "DRM" it's just not "imposed as a console policy" which is what Microsoft was initially rumored to do. Sony's first party titles will be 100% DRM-free but its not up for them to decide what other publishers will do with their games (pretty much the PS3/X360 policy)

The rage against Microsoft is caused due to a lot of mess ups, DRM just happened to be one of them. While Sony went ahead and made themselves clear by saying "DRM is NOT imposed" Microsoft didn't want to comment on their policies. This made people even more skeptic. Larry Hryb himself said Microsoft is failing at making itself clear.

Microsoft wasnt rumored to have DRM, the heart of the Xbones infrastructure is their Azure network authentication system which locks out used games. It was going to lock out every game that wasnt new and put up a paywall, but apparently the blacklash has caused them to state contradictions to the initial statements, which means they are back peddling and doing exactly what Sony is doing which is not implmenting DRM, but leaving it up to third parties. EA is backing off from the DRM because all eyes are on them. Sony played it smart and let the people do the talking and now EA is stepping back.