| gergroy said: Well, 0% of pc gamers buy used games, they dont seem to mind buying new (and yes, pc games can cost $60). Part of the problem is the x1 was reveal was the way they went about it. Trying to hide drm and being sneaky about it. Another problem is that they were the only ones doing it. I think they expected Sony to have a similar policy and were caught off guard when they didnt. However, I fully believe that if sony had come out with drm policies as well, people would have grumbled a little maybe, but mkst people would have just accepted without much of an issue. My guess, next round of consoles will be always online with integrated drm and nobody will care. World wasnt ready for it yet, but both sony and microsoft seem to be doing stuff that will prepare people for a always connected future so that it isnt an issue in the next gen. |
The funny thing is, you are completely right with whatyou just said here, the sad thing is that it doesn't maean the practice in of itself is right.
I don't think sony is a saint or that they wouldn't jump on this if given a chance, after all sony charges for online multiplayer now which was free on the PS3 cause MS got away with it. I don't want a gaming future where you have to be connected for your games to work. I think that i scrossing the line.
First we had to be connected to play online. Thats ok, it made sense. Then it was that you had to pay to be able to use your already existing internet connection and play your games online. I hated and still hate this. But I was already paying for PS+ that had added value to it that had nothing to do with online mutiplayer, so I saw nothing wrong with paying to continue getting games anyway and pretend that i wasn't also paying to play my games online. Gamers dealt with that. Now MS is trying to make us actually require online to even be able to make us play our games???? Naaaaaahhhh... that right there is crossing the line.
