Dmick90 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Dmick90 said:
What rights? There are no laws saying games have to be made on disc or laws against having a constant internet connection. Because it's not what you're used to you feel threatened by it. Some people don't like change, you are one of those people. Come on it's 2013, at least 90% of the population have some form of broadband internet connection. People without internet could tether their Xboxs to their phones. And don't use the people in other countries don't have an internet connection excuse, that's such a cliche. Microsoft could have easily made adjustments for people in other countries so that they could be able to play offline.
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Microsoft undermined the first sale doctrine. Look it up. Understand your rights as a consumer. DRM alienates the used market if you take it to a certain extent and that is one of the major things that makes console gaming special opposed to PC gaming, which basically has zero right to resale because of the fully digital and code-based form. If Microsoft put the paywall up they and Gamestop would've had some issues and a larger sum of people than you think would've defected to Sony on principle.
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Microsoft has said they were gonna allow the reselling of used games, did they not?
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If Sony sided with EA and Microsoft, console gamers would've been fucked. Give at least that much thanks to Sony regardless of how you feel about them. Microsoft drew a line in the sand and sided with EA. EA stepped back on Online passes because they thought Microsoft would succeed in their endeavors to bring DRM to consoles, but since Sony didn't pick sides and stayed true to their relationship with both consumers and EA, they consumers sided with Sony and EA backed away from both online passes and Microsoft to save face. Microsoft took the fall because of a leak that happened post Xbone reveal that let everyone on the net know about the DRM and the extent of which it would affect their ability to resell games. No one likes a paywall and Microsoft had the structure in place to impose it upon us. Chances are high right now that I will get the Xbone first because of KI and Titanfall so if they dont choose to screw me I'll follow through on that first purchase.
