the-pi-guy said:
silentdj151 said:
Dr.Grass said:
And Steam.
Seems people are unable to distinguish between these obviously different things. I'll give them a hand:
NO-ONE GIVES A RAT'S ASS ABOUT DRM ON DIGITAL MEDIA.
and
EVERYONE WAS PISSED AT MS BECAUSE OF DRM ON PHYSICAL MEDIA
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HUH?
Steam took a product pc games that were traditionally sold on physical media cd/dvd
and made it digital with DRM...offering lower prices then the physical copy...now everyone sells pc games via digital with some sort of drm
if your counter argument is going to be...pc games were only licenses to play the game in the first place...the same can be said about console games all you do is buy a license to play the game you never acutually own it.
However, you can trade in your physical console game copy to ebgames for below market value or resell it yourself on amazon...ebay...craigslist for market rate.
So, I don't care about reselling console games ussually the trade in value is nothing or it takes to much time and effort to resell at market value...basically diminishing returns...
I'm not sure I get your argument or point
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But the thing is, that a lot of people complain about DRM, not the price. Even for music, a lot of people were begging Apple to remove DRM from iTunes music. It's a lot about the convenience. The only thing DRM helps with is with making things more difficult for legitimate consumers. Let us say I buy a song from my parents computer and use a flash drive to transfer that song to my computer. It didn't work because of the DRM. Then awhile ago, Apple removed the DRM from it's music.
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Spotify/Netflix/Steam
All companies that are moving in the right direction giving consumers what they want and guess they all have DRM.
Problem is that Xb1 did not point the benefits of going digital in a effective way...
Sony capitalized with there marketing after E3...
XB1 took a big hit management forced to give in...
Eventually consoles next generation maybe even this generation will go all digital I will not mind...DRM or not
