Things that are made worse with todays Xbox One DRM change

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kupomogli said:

superchunk said:

5) This is a massive misnomer on your end. This is why I've pulled it out from the other four.
Gamestop was a ripoff because people allowed it to be and traded/bought from them. If MS policies went through, these types of non-deals would be the ONLY choice you have as you were forced to use Gamestop/BestBuy/Amazon/Walmart/etc for trade-ins and used gaming.

However, now you have the real choice of still using person to person, Craigslist, eBay, etc. That is where the real deals are for used games anyways. Selling and buying a game is ALWAYS a better deal through person to person channels than any retailer. Better for the seller and buyer. Your want for MS policy would have destroyed this option and definitely cost resellers/used buyers more.

This.  If it's a game I like, I don't sell it, but if I don't like it, put it on Ebay and usually I get close to what I paid for it.

There are far more Gamestop stores than Best Buy and Amazon gives much lower trade in values than Gamestop does, so Gamestop would pretty much have you by the balls if Xbox One kept the DRM.  The prices at which you trade in games would not increase, rather they'd decrease because Gamestop would know they're more than likely the only one you'd go through. 

The DRM benefited retailers and Microsoft.  It screwed gamers and independent retailers.  The way it is now, gamers have the power to do whatever they want with their games and if I want to sell a game day one after I purchase it, I can do so and probably get $5 or $10 less than what I paid, rather than $30-40 less at Gamestop.  People who use rental services can use those as well, so need to buy then sell to Ebay if they don't like it.  Try it out on a rental service and then trade it in for a new one.

There are lots of benefits to digitally based gaming with DRM which to me are 10X better than disk based gaming...I would be willing to pay more for games to have these benefits. But to each is own...

People really need to use Steam and PCs for gaming before jumping the gun on digital based DRM. It's really not the boogeyman.