If anything it was a bad omen that gaming will soon go in the direction of PC's where consumers own nothing and play licensed games, except its on a closed format OS. Where physical copies of games are tied to a CD key. This is a gamer rights issue and no one should be jumping on Xbox fanatics about how PC was so amazing when a good portion of the games they are enjoying we're already playing. Can someone please explain this to me? I just got get it at all.

Thanks.

Using a "Closed format OS" as an excuse for playing down the PC is just silly.
What do the consoles have? They're completely closed platforms.

As for ownership, I own my games on the PC, not rent them through Steam, it's not like you go buy a game and the next week the publisher and developer takes it away from you, the vast majority of games also allow you to play them offline.

Don't get me wrong, I'll buy the Xbox One and PS4 for the exclusives, but my main platform of choice will always be the PC, it's superior in every way.

All your game library saved in the cloud with your game saves, DLC and gaming history tied to you...following you around no matter where you go? Forever and ever...What is not to understand about why this is appealing? Its the freeking future...

If you know of a way to incorporate this type of freedom in to consoles and create a viable online digital ecosystem, without sacrificing "game trading" and still protecting developer revenue since we know what human nature is like...please call Microsoft or Sony and let them know how to proceed.

Your first point was exactly my point. I never said PC was closed.

No, you paid for a license to your PC games. Steam protects your license of use through their system (cloud gaming) which the PS3 and 360 have been using since 2005 and 2006. You essentially own nothing. Physical ownership is the only ownership that matters.

I beg to differ that PC is superior outside of hardware upgrades, open format and being able to mod which I care nothing for truthfully.

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The vote doesnt match the number of responses. This is not proving anything for the case of PC.

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The ability to buy and sell used games is becoming less appealing on consoles which was the main advantage to me.

My point was that people were saying they would switch to PC gaming because of the Xboxes issues. Problem is even with all the issues the Xbox has right now Xbox gamers still have more gamer rights than PC gamers as far as ownership is concerned. The second anyone believes a digital game truly belongs to them they are sadly mistaken. This is exactly what companies want, to push the anti-consumer agenda. What Microsoft did was a scary omen for console gaming, but gamers own their game as long as its on their console. The problem is putting terms on that ownership is a huge hot button issue that MS will have to answer for. Very anti-consumer.