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Zkuq on 20 June 2013
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happydolphin said:
Zkuq said:
I say the cons outweighed the pros by far. It's not about ignoring the pros, it's about the cons outweighing them.

Problem is we barely got to hear the pros because the cons were constantly drowning them out.

What about DRM would've been better for the consumer?

1- The retail game is always in your library, even if you lose the disc.

2- Less pirating means more money for the publishers, means more games.

3- Mergining retail and digital business into 1 for a more manageable process.

4- Possibly better tracking of digital software sales (good for vgchartzians).

5- Digital perks due to more money with publishers:

 

  • being able to share games with 10 friends.
  • Steam-like sales.

 

1. True, can't argue about that. There's the thing that you still need access to the servers, though, and if after some long time servers go down, you're probably screwed. And of course it's more than likely that servers will be down for shorter periods occassionally. So overall: Convenient as long as things work but when things go wrong, you should expect to be screwed.

2. It's not about piracy, it's about used games. Piracy is a very small issue on consoles. And used games save consumers money, which will allow them to spend more money on games (and on other things, true, but also on games). And then there's the question: Is more games better or worse? Personally I've had enough with all those huge-budget games aimed at the mass market, they're pretty soulless generally. Variety and quality are what needs to be encouraged, not quantity. Besides, the amount of games is more than sufficient as it is. In fact, there's more games than I have time to play. I'd say more games isn't a plus if it means what I think it means. Either way, I don't see the benefit here.

3. I don't see how that benefits me at all.

4. I don't care. Also, I doubt tracking would get better. Why would it?

5. We could already get Steam-like sales, the technology is there. The fact is that we don't, and I don't see any reason at all why that would change. And being able to share the game with ten people is a good thing but I don't think we got to hear all the details just yet. As far as I understood the system, only one person at a time could play the game. Sounds like a mess to me if several of your friends wanted to play the game at the same time - a mess you wouldn't get with physical sharing. Overall, there's some benefit here but really it's hard to say how much without more details.