| prayformojo said: No one knows what the future holds for the industry but one day we may look back at Sony and the PS4 as the console that saved gaming. If Xbone had released and went on to be successful in it's first, DRM happy form, we all would have been screwed. |
I always imagine people like you in a different world. A world where steam crashed and burned because of people's initial complaints, and so older PC games had to be bought digitally from their specific publishers, and not for drastically reduced prices. And the ignorant masses would be triumphing over how Steam would have screwed everyone, but EA saved gaming.
Guess what? a disc is a DRM of sorts. You step on it, you scratch it, you lose it, and your game, and all it's value, is gone. For anyone like me, who never sells back used games, and has reliable internet, Microsoft's plan was leaps and bounds better in every conceivable way. Game sharing would have enabled my friends and I to play the same games, without buying multiple copies, and if we played split screen games over each other's houses, we would never have even needed to think about bringing discs to other people's houses. Plans change at the last minute, end up over a random friends house? You automatically would have access to the games library of every person, due to their xbox live account, and every game being on the cloud. Sounds terrible, huh?
