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DirtyP2002 said:


 And the publishers don't jeopardise anything, because people will go out and buy their games anyway.

Well, I cannot argue with someone who sees the future.



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DigitalDevilSummoner said:
J_Allard said:

The claim is the PS4 will have DRM.. not sure why you and some others instantly equate this to an attack on Sony and rush to the defense.

Because it's a blatant lie ?

So Sony is telling a lie? They are the ones who confirmed publishers can put whatever DRM on there they want.



J_Allard said:

So Sony is telling a lie? They are the ones who confirmed publishers can put whatever DRM on there they want.

Well, now you are just blantantly lying to yourself.  Just like hynad said it's useless to talk to you so I won't even try but Sony said no such thing. All we have right now is sony saying online registration for a system that requires no internet connection that can play used games.



Max King of the Wild said:
J_Allard said:
 

So Sony is telling a lie? They are the ones who confirmed publishers can put whatever DRM on there they want.

Well, now you are just blantantly lying to yourself.  Just like hynad said it's useless to talk to you so I won't even try but Sony said no such thing. All we have right now is sony saying online registration for a system that requires no internet connection that can play used games.

Can play used games, if the publisher allows it. I guess you forgot about that one.

Instead of crying about what I am saying, maybe go read the quotes from Sony themselves? That might help you out a bit here.



DigitalDevilSummoner said:

DirtyP2002 said:


 And the publishers don't jeopardise anything, because people will go out and buy their games anyway.

Well, I cannot argue with someone who sees the future.


Learn from the history my friend.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/13/how-not-to-boycott-modern-warfare-2/



Imagine not having GamePass on your console...

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Max King of the Wild said:
Kasz216 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Kasz216 said:
 

I suggest you take a logic course then. If the argument is ambigous or a premise isn't explicitly specified then you must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume the best case scenarios of the argument is what is being said.


Then i'd suggest you retake a logic course then.... since you must not of understood what you took.  Or just never learned about trust.  Instead only hard science logic.  When this would be social science we're talking here.

I note you've completely ignored answering my questions that had examples... because you know i'm right.

Honors Logic 100% A+... pretty sure I understood it perfectly and if my logic book wasn't in Milwaukee I would turn to the page that talks about being generous to peoples arguments

People's areguements who are known directly to mislead on a fairly consistant basis?

So again.  You believe Obama on everything he says in regards to the NSA and all the other recent scandals?

That's what your claim on logic suggests you do, or your being illogical right?

For a slightly exagerrated example... if someone tries to sell me a house, and i buy it and found out it was owned by someone else.  I should totally believe them the next time they try and sell me a house.

 

The problem here, as shown by the textbook you mentioned and class you mentioned is that your trying to apply formal logic(mathmatical logic) to non mathmatical statements made untrustworthy databrokers. 



So question about were the drm is used from. Thefes a rumor going around the every x1 game has dedicated servers which I would assume come from ms. So would the drm come from these servers or some where else? Im just asking because if theres one company that I think could handle the server load of drm its ms



Hynad said:
Kasz216 said:
Hynad said:
Kasz216 said:
Hynad said:
Kasz216 said:

 

 




A) Are you sure it's actually  up to them?   Or do they have to get permission and pay off sony for online passes?  

B1) Do you think Diablo 3 on PS3 will require an always on connection?  The PC version already does... the Xbox one version will.  The PS3 version will right?  More or less answers if Publisher could do it no?   People won't be able to play Diablo 3 offline even though it can be played fully single player.

B2) As for what Sony said about some countries not having good enough internet structure.  (Which by the way, the US falls into that category in a number of areas).  Aren't you going off base?   We both agreed Sony doesn't have a say in the matter right?  So what Sony's opinion can be completely  ignored here.  They think this, yet for some reason aren't forcing companies to not use that kind of DRM.   Why?   They control the system.  They can mandate it just as eaisly as they mandate more content.  They clearly haven't however.  


B3)  EA is killing their online passes, understandable considering the Xone makes it so they get money off used games another way.  Online passes were shown to be pretty profitable.

Do you really think EA is just giving up that revenue stream on PS4 with no compensation?  Or perhaps they'll use Xbox One like DRM?  Or maybe that disc watermarking so you have to pay money for each installation after the first?

What is the best case scenario is.... Sony is demanding less of a cut of sales?  

If EA was getting NOTHING out of it, don't you think they'd be demanding SOMETHING.

At the very least, doesn't it seem extremely likely that EA will implement such a system since they are not using pay for online anyore?  

B4) Why do you think Microsoft implemented these anti-consumer polcies, it's not like they don't understand the software situtation in poor countries.   Hell, it's funny, before this Microsoft's general software strategy has been "If you are going to pirate... pirate us!"   The XBox, and the 360 were both extremely easy to hack and pirate, with no real effort taken to protect from piracy unlike say the PS3.

Specfic publisher interest seems likely, no?

 

It's not like it'd of been the first time Sony has specifically misled people about something.  (Nor microsoft or Nitnendo if it was them.)

One should always be suspious about corporations and never take anything they say at face value.

A: Are you sure of the contrary? That's baseless speculation and not based on anything that was stated ever. 

B1: Diablo 3 has been confirmed to be playable offline. Keep up with the news.

B2: Yeah, they "control the system". My point is that the developers will want to sell their games in those parts as well. XBO may not care about them, but that doesn't mean ALL publishers will feel the same. 

B3: Could it be that those online passes that EA is "killing" were just not bringing in that much money to begin with? And that by getting rid of them, they make sure that more people get online and feel compelled to buy DLCs/microtransaction content? Would that be that surprising to you? Basically, MS is trying to go a route similar to Steam, where all content is locked to a user account. Sony has said they're not going that route... Just like Nintendo. So, take a game like Watchdog. That game won't cost extra money to use on the PS3, 360 and Wii U. But you're saying it will include all those barriers on the PS4? Because those are in place on the XBO? That's all speculation. And I try not to take those as facts as much as possible. Here, we have Sony saying they don't have such a system in place for the PS4. So yeah, there are no such system in place for the PS4. What third parties decide to do with their games is up to them, but that doesn't mean they will implement them. Just like Online passes weren't used by all devs on the PS3 and 360...

B4: What seems likely doesn't mean that's exactly what happened. And as for those markets, MS doesn't sell in as many markets as Sony and Nintendo in the first place. So who know if they truly care about those. From the looks of things, they don't seem to.

As for the bolded, I think I prefer going by what has been said and announced and not go all paranoid like the ones defending MS. If Sony comments differently regarding these issues, then I'll have a reason to be worried. So far, I don't have any reason to be. Based on what was announced and said about those things.



A) I'm speculating off your speculation.  Console manufactuers own the console and have complete control over ther ecosystems.  Whether or not they decide to exercise that control who knows?  In general, it makes sense to assume so however, because they could literally stop anything they don't approve of.

B2)  No, but to assume otherwise seems like a bad idea.  Considering how the vast majority of publishers do everything they can to lock down games, and have generally lobied specifically for laws that say used sales should have a "tax" that goes back to the original IP maker.

You're also assuming that it's the Xone that doesn't care about those markets... and not Market Pressure from the big publishers like EA, Activision and Ubisoft who have been lobbying like crazy for the above laws.

B3)  Yes, that would be surprising to me, since Online passes started off small and made like, 15 million dollars off used games before they even got around to the second installment of said sports games... and were such a huge success basically everyone started copying them.  They had them for years, everyone thought they were great, and then EA decided "eh we don't want to do this anymore" like... a few months before the Xone revieal?  That's supposed to be a coincidence?

Sports games for example don't really have much DLC/microtransations... and the people who do buy that stuff... probably are going to be buying new anyway.  Don't you think?  Who loves sports so much they have to have special edition rosters and legendary players.... but doesn't actually buy the sports game until after the season is over and the rosters are all completely different?

Let alone by $10 worth of that each transaction?

 

B4)

As for Watchdog... the Xone and PS4 versions are different... they're going to have more indepth physics, more features.  They're going to be upgraded versions of a game.  So the arguement basically boils down to "Do you think the premium version games will be treated the same way and have the same features/be more restrictive/ cost more then the cheaper version.  Or just one of them because a company says it's up to the developer what kind of drm they want."

 

Again, they haven't been as direct as you think they have.   They may or may not implement these things, but there is nothing in those statements that should make you feel like it's likely they won't.  It's all pr "Lets keep the doors open who knows what we might do". doubletalk.


For a specific Sony case that's similar...  Remember when Hackers got to the PS3 through linux?  Sony removed the linux feature and a lot of people argued it was ok because online as different, and that not updating your console wouldn't effect your ability to play games, since sony said if you refused to update the firmware sony said it  " Wouldn't Effect any games that can be played on the PS3."

People pushed sony for a hard answer and got no reply.

Then the update rolled along... and it turned out they told the truth.  "It wouldn't effect any games that could be played on the PS3."  However it would effect every game released for the PS3 after.  At that point the initial wave and backlash had somewht blown over and it was easy to sail over the criticism.

(Which by the way is exactly what i said would happen, and people ignored.)

 

To show consistancy, Microsoft by the way just recently likely did the same thing during the Xone reveal.   That whole section they did "demonstrating" the console was almost definitly prebaked.  I'd be money on it.  They never say it's actually running, they say things like "it's just that easy".  However, i HIGHLY doubt it was actually running.  (Espiecally based on how he kept saying Xbox casually and yet nothing wonky happened).

 

To believe this stuff whole heartidly because "they said so", is a mistake, until something is in a solid difinitive statement, they take questions on that statement and take every grilling question about it.



Kasz216 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Kasz216 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Kasz216 said:
 

I suggest you take a logic course then. If the argument is ambigous or a premise isn't explicitly specified then you must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume the best case scenarios of the argument is what is being said.


Then i'd suggest you retake a logic course then.... since you must not of understood what you took.  Or just never learned about trust.  Instead only hard science logic.  When this would be social science we're talking here.

I note you've completely ignored answering my questions that had examples... because you know i'm right.

Honors Logic 100% A+... pretty sure I understood it perfectly and if my logic book wasn't in Milwaukee I would turn to the page that talks about being generous to peoples arguments

People's areguements who are known directly to mislead on a fairly consistant basis?

So again.  You believe Obama on everything he says in regards to the NSA and all the other recent scandals?

That's what your claim on logic suggests you do, or your being illogical right?

For a slightly exagerrated example... if someone tries to sell me a house, and i buy it and found out it was owned by someone else.  I should totally believe them the next time they try and sell me a house.

 

The problem here, as shown by the textbook you mentioned and class you mentioned is that your trying to apply formal logic(mathmatical logic) to non mathmatical statements made untrustworthy databrokers. 

So when did peoples arguments become mathematical? You are wrong, just admit it.

Also Mark Cerny said the PS4 can be played old school style, with no internet conection at all. Stop trying to twist things to your liking. Sony has said time and again they aren't implementing DRM on their system. They are going far enough to freaking joke about it. Do you really think they are going to just blatantly lie? They are being pretty straight forward, it's just people like you who like to twist things to their liking that are the problem. Then you like to make yourself sound smart by belittling others. You tell someone that they didn't take the class they took, and that you know more about that subject than them. You are a real piece of work.



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