Landguy said:
That is what I was thinking as I read all of these comments. Most of the commenters don't mind it if "evil" Microsoft doesn't talk about it first. What they really want is Sony to copywright it so that they can get paid by everyone to use the idea. That i one way for Sony to stay in business long term! Obviously, Sony has already adopted the idea of DRM by providing PSPlus and eventually PSnow. Anything that requires you to have an internet connection and log into is DRM. That's the whole point. People saying that Sony doesn't do DRM are just not understanding what it is to begin with. |
I am going to assume that some posters here are so hell bent on making this be a sony love thing that they are just ignoring the obvious things that people are saying.
PS+ doesn't work the way you think it does. And its not DRM in the bad way. With PS+ for being a member you get certain content every month. This content is yours as long as you are a member. You can go out an buy that content if you aren't a member. When you download a game off PS+, your current membership expiration date is time stamped to the content you download. So even if you aren't online, the OS will be able to determine when you "lease" for that game has expired. If you are online and/renew you PS+ status, the OS updates the lease expiration dates for all your PS+ content.
No one is saying MS shouldn't do this. The can do that if they want and they actually already do with games with gold. I will say again, for like the 10th time in this thread. What people don't want is when you can not play physical disc based or even digital games that you buy, own, that belongs to you, you get from a store, a friend or whatever unless you are conected to the internet cause the game "NEEDS" the internet to work. Cause there is a missing component of the games render engine that cannot run on your ocnsole so it needs the "cloud" to handle physics, A.I, lighting or whatever.
These are two very different things.
