Shinobi-san said:
fordy said:
Shinobi-san said:
fordy said:
Shinobi-san said:
Do you want names? Just have a read through the forum you will find the people you are looking for.
There are less intrusive and convenient ways to implement DRM. If MS wanted to implement some sort of sharing plan they would have.
Im pretty sure me and 99.999% of other people are not the ones falling for crap.
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Give your best shot. As a developer who has dealt with DRM publishing issues before, I'll be happy to shoot down any shortsightings, including the ones I already did with Microsoft...
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Yes yes you're a developer I'm a developer we are all developers. Great now what?
Riddle me this though, why doesnt MS still implement the sharing plan with digital only content?
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They most likely can, but number one, it's an area where NO major distributor has set foot into (Steam is only just talking about it) so there IS no clear defined safe area between developers and consumers.
Secondly, the original idea, as I already have provided my analogy several times, was that Microsoft saw this as a good middle-ground, but to keep physical media in a separate form to digital media would have made the system feel like it was an unfinished platform. Their intention was most likely to have DRM as optional with the benefits coming with opting in, but publishers threatened to pull support, because there was no way to control piracy on particular situations (such as installing the media and then selling it privately to somebody who will only use it offline), hence the online checking part feeling like the rushed out part of the policy.
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Yes they can. Thats the main point.
The only reason they are taking that away is because when they had DRM they tried to sell it by saying all this other stuff now becomes possible. Since that was all very very very public, they obviously cant take away DRM and then keep those features. That would mean their original press releases and PR was all blatant lies? Thats damn near illegal.
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Way to only get half of the story there. Perhaps you should be reading more on the other side of the argument before jumping to such blatant conclusions.
You have not adressed the issue of physical media management. As I stated in the reply, keeping digital separate from physical in the account would make the system sppear rushed and not as seamless as what the original intent was. So, I take it you have some brilliant idea as to how these things are implemented seamlessly for physical media, too?
