How microsoft plan to stealthily bring back Always Online

[Puppyroach]

Raziel123 said:

Puppyroach said:

I was asking those questions in regards to PS Now. So the games you buy on PS Now can be played offline? I thought it was a streaming service? I don´t care if you can buy games physically, any game that you buy and cannot copy, resell or lend to someone else, has DRM attached to it. Every game I buy on XBLA has DRM, since they are all digital.

Such twist of logic to defend MS. I don't get it.

If you want to play Uncharted 1-3 or any other PS3 game you can..

1 - buy retail

2 - buy digital

3- rent on PS Now

You choose what you want. 3 requires Internet, the other two don't.

MS wants to make every game a service, which means they'll have always online DRM. So, if you want to play "future" (if this happens) XB1 games, you can:

1- buy retail

2- buy digital

But the problem is that regardless of your "choice", you'll always be subject to the same DRM. So effectively, your only "choice" is the equivalent of Sony's #3; the only one. And it so happens that it's the one that requires Internet.

So there is nothing in PS Now that prevent Sony to release games only on that service, making it mandatory to always be online in order to access them. That they haven´t done it yet doesn´t mean a thing, they have already built the infrastructure to be able to do it so they are going down the same route as MS, only in a different manner.