| Mummelmann said: That's a retarded argument in those photos, I have never in my life lent a game to friends all over the nation and I never will. Besides, Cliffy's concern is used games killing the industry, won't it kill it if you can simply share your games with others and they won't have to buy it themselves? Isn't that even worse? At least if ten people buy used copies, that would mean that there had to be ten original sales in the first place (of course, one game could be purchased several times though). |
It would've been a really cool feature if they let you do that. It also would've been far, far worse than the current situation, as it would mean that people would have less incentive to pay a dime to anybody at all. Why bother, when you could just split the price with people in your friends' list and all share one copy? I don't buy it.
The only way that it would've worked for devs if there were severe restrictions on how much people on different accounts used your copy. The demo situation is the only one I can imagine being palatable to publishers. I'd love to hear details on what MS was going to do that was so much better without pissing them off...but with their digital plans, they've been far more interested in giving us heady declarations about the future than the meat-and-potatoes of their actual plans.
