nanarchy said:
DRM while unpalatable to many is currently the only way to move forward if like myself you consider digital as moving forward. I hate and despise disks, they are something to get lost/damaged/stolen and the requirement to put it in the drive is an pointless irritation that results from lack of good DRM solution. The online every 24 hours I think was at best an average idea for implementing it and was terribly marketed. However a well thought out DRM strategy that allowed me to move to digital only where my library follows me and not the physical disk while still retaining my rights to sell/loan/share my game to me is the future. This could be done by including certificates or unique identifiers in disks and with downloads giving the best of both worlds (ie not crippling offline play while still giving full benefits of a digital world). |
This is a fair point, im the opposite though. I like to actually own my stuff. And im not too lazy to have to get up and change a disc, but to each his own. I dont think digital is the future, but having it as an OPTION is. THe fact is that MS was doing a crap job of implementing features. Like you said they had a poor strategy. They COULD have giving people the best of both worlds, but they DIDNT, doesnt matter would could have happened it only matters what is happening, and what was happening was not what people want, they let MS know and here we are. Thats not to say they cant implement better features in the future we just have to wait and see.
IMHO them removing the actual good features, was just one final. "You dont like what we were doing, so now you get nothing." Like a spoiled child. THey could have implemented that stuff without the crap DRM but thats just me.
