| nightsurge said: That appears to be. Digital games require DRM and you are 100% against it from what I see. You obviously have nothing wrong with no resale if you buy lots of digital content. Granted MS could do better than a 24 hr/1 hr time limit. |
Well, then you can't see very well. My problems are with:
1. Microsoft ostensibly doing retail the same as last generation but turning the physical disc into a mere vehicle for a registration key. This is just a worse experience for the customer than the previous one without anything of value being added.
2. Controlling the resale of said discs by limiting it to approved retailers, which shuts out any non-chain mom & pop type game stores and all private sellers. Again, with nothing of value being offered to justify this inconvenience. (Except for this phantasmal "game sharing" nonsense.) Also, good bye, rental services!
3. Your console acting as your parole officer, forcing you to check in every single day to make sure you're not up to no good.
4. The pattern of every single decision Microsoft made with the 'bone breaking in their favor and not a single one of them breaking in favor of the consumer. It shows a corporation that is dangerously out of touch with the needs and wants of the consumer, and if there hadn't been this massive pushback, I cringe to think how far they would take it down the line.
5. The larger argument by many in the industry that because they have decided that every game has to cost more to develop than they can actually afford to spend on it, your consumer rights have to go out the window. That things that every other industry on the planet has to deal with - like first sale doctrine - don't apply to them because their business model is so broken. It's both unethical and disgustingly stupid. Just as the savings from the lower cost of manufacturing after the move to optical media was eaten up by exploding budgets, the same will happen from whatever financial benefits arise from the move to digital. And when the bugbear of used games is eliminated, what rights will they have to stamp out next to keep from coming to grips with the fact that you cannot sustainably double your budget, then double it again, then double it again, forever and ever?
Digital is perfetly fine. It has some upsides and some downsides, but Microsoft's all sticks and no carrots approach is patently offensive.
