ListerOfSmeg said:
Osc89 said:
ListerOfSmeg said:
I agree. Let's be honest. A good portion of the people that hated were never going to buy the xbox1 to begin with. Valve has pretty much the same DRM and notice how 24 hours later, the internet is not flooded with hate against them.
I actually prefer being able to switch between games without swapping out discs. Wii U is the first console I have owned in a long time because I can go all digital. I still love my PC. While I am typing this, I have youtube open, Rift running, Civ5 at the end of the turn and Rosetta stone waiting for me to come back. Now I know some of that has nothing to do with gaming but it helps me be able to multi task. Once you get use to not being tied down to disc or 1 program at a time, its hard to go back.
I will never own a MS console but I don't have any issues with their DRM policy and I welcome it.
Rest assured if Sony had announced it, the internets wouldn't have exploded. It would have been heralded as the next big thing in gaming. Instead people used it as a reason to hate and stopped the advancement on consoles in the process. |
That sums it up really. With every console this gen you can go all digital, but you don't have to. MS tried to force everyone to go all digital, but if someone wants that they can do it anyway. The only people who this affected were the people who actually prefer to buy retail, who obviously don't want this.
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Thing is if you look at history people always fought advancement. When radio was invented book lovers fought it. When TV came along radio lovers fought it. When CDs came along record lovers hated it. It never has stopped advancement and never will though
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In this case it has at least delayed it. The reaction has forced MS to roll back to the 360 arrangement. I think the main issue was they messed up the reveal, so instead of hearing the positives we got all the negatives before they could tell us why this system was better. The rumours of the "always on" stuff got so bad they had to confirm before they were ready to. This gave the hate a chance to build, killing the X1 image.
