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Pibituh on 29 March 2014
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DarkD said:
g911turbo said:

More like they saw the backlash building and quickly leveraged it to be the good guys.  Sony is just as much a king of DRM / copyright protection as anyone, seeing as they have heavy hooks in bluray (Cinavia protection).


I'm not entirely sure that what you are saying is any different than what I said.  Yes everyone knew there would be a backlash over newer more strict DRM practices.  They've proven it so many times now.  The developers don't want that responsibility anymore because it hurts their brand image when they do that.  That's why I think they all got together and said that it should be the platforms that enforce the DRMs.  If Sony and Microsoft both enforce a DRM at the same time, the users would be forced to swallow it regardless of how pissed off they got.  

I think Sony secretly stabbed all the third parties in the back at the last minute by not having DRM.  That's why afterwards we had third parties coming forward saying that this whole thing came out of nowhere.  Sony was supposed to have DRM too but they leveraged not having DRM to make them seem like the heroes of this generation.  

So yea if you are saying that Sony was just as guilty as Microsoft in the DRM category, then we are in agreement.  

What ? How and why ? 

 

First you say Sony stabbed 3rd parties in the back. So, for Sony to stab someone in the back, is obviously favouring someone. That someone would be the gamers. And for MS not stabbing 3rd parties in the back, they were obviously going into their needs about DRM. Going into their needs, is going away of OUR needs !

All you got from Sony is that they will still be 'normal', without any agressive DRM in their games. But, 3rd parties could do whatever they wanted with THEIR games. With that, Sony managed to get 3rd party support, because, I believe 3rd party publishers can still use that kind of DRM on PS4. But Playstation will continue to have no agressive DRM on their own games. Basically, they were affraid of loosing 3rd party support like Ninty, but they were keeping their games as it is supposed to be. 

It is as it should be, whoever wants to make agressive DRM games, should go for it. - And not make one, and then say: ''It isn't us, it's MS and Sony doing it!''.