| nanarchy said: You may not be alone, but you are definitely in a small minority, PC has already gone this way successfully. Consoles are part way their already. The majority does not care about the medium of game delivery as long as it works and is affordable. |
The environment on PC is entirely different from what many of these "cloud" services entail.
Think of PC gaming much as how people work with ebooks nowadays. You can get all your books (mostly) without having to kill trees to do so but have to deal with DRM that tries to make it so that you never actually "own" your books. This, naturally, has been entirely destroyed by the community around it and now you can strip DRM with all of two clicks of a mouse. So what's happened? Well you download the book, strip it, and then, effectively, own it in its entirety and can put it to physical things like disk or even print it out if you want. You can pretty much do the exact same thing with PC gaming games even if they are DRMed to Steam... it doesn't take a long google search to find out how to make the games entirely self-standing (though you obviously forgoe updates and multiplayer but this is hardly a problem for single-player games or games well past their online lifetimes).
Now if Sony/M$ want to let me download their games to my PC in their entirety, I will gladly do so and strip them of every inch of DRM they may try to cram into it. But I highly doubt they'd do so...
