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BinaryDelt on 12 June 2013
kitler53 said:
listen, any time you have to "educate" the consumer it means:

A) your approach is too complicated.
B) your benefits are not obvious or your benefits are not wanted.


^This



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JerCotter7 on 12 June 2013
scat398 said:
Somini said:
scat398 said:
The disc truly is the horse and buggy whip of this generation and its time is quickly coming to an end. Microsoft is thinking two steps ahead of the competition right now.


Thing is, if digital ever became the standard, or at least leading over physical, you'll see laws and regulations that will allow for reselling your digital content. We're not there yet, but in the EU for example, they are already busy establishing this.

So digital items; like games, music, movies and everything else will go second hand too in the not too distant future.

well if they do lets just hope the rights of the publisher are properly protected and royalties are paid.


Yeah the publishers will be protected. You wont abe able to sell 20 copies if you buy one. And hopefully they get what they deserve from second hand sales, nothing. Same as everything else that's sold. No one deserves to be payed for the same thing twice. Although if they buy it back and sell it again I can see this method working.



kitler53 on 12 June 2013
BenVTrigger said:
kitler53 said:
listen, any time you have to "educate" the consumer it means:

A) your approach is too complicated.
B) your benefits are not obvious or your benefits are not wanted.


Youll hear no disagreement from me. Especially on point A. I can see MS vision but my god have they done an awful job of communicating it or explaining what benefit it has on a consumer level.

Though Im sure that is what their huge lineup of exclusives is for. To try and bribe the consumer into buying into their model whether people want to or not.

i can really late to the party in this other thread but i'm just going to link to my post anyways.  if MS were to do it like this i'm sure everyone (self included) would be happy with them.  instead they choose probably the worst possible solution you could imagine.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=5428880

 

MS's bribe might have worked if it wasn't for the fact that sony has a bigger first party and MS doesn't have enough money to buy the entire 3rd party development community.  sure they have a few great exclusives but so does everyone else and like last gen 90% of their library will be on sony's machine.

 



Talal on 12 June 2013

What they should have done is:
1- Make digital games cheaper 50$ for example.
2- Many deals and discounts on Live.
3- Being able to share your downloads on a few consoles.

That way digital will grow by a lot without pissing off people, or restrict some unfortunate people.



Zkuq on 12 June 2013

I don't think he really said anything there besides pointing out that they consider the portion of people opposing this new direction to be small enough to ignore.



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oniyide on 12 June 2013
Zkuq said:
I don't think he really said anything there besides pointing out that they consider the portion of people opposing this new direction to be small enough to ignore.


It'll will be interesting to see if he is right or not



BenVTrigger on 12 June 2013
kitler53 said:
BenVTrigger said:
kitler53 said:
listen, any time you have to "educate" the consumer it means:

A) your approach is too complicated.
B) your benefits are not obvious or your benefits are not wanted.


Youll hear no disagreement from me. Especially on point A. I can see MS vision but my god have they done an awful job of communicating it or explaining what benefit it has on a consumer level.

Though Im sure that is what their huge lineup of exclusives is for. To try and bribe the consumer into buying into their model whether people want to or not.

i can really late to the party in this other thread but i'm just going to link to my post anyways.  if MS were to do it like this i'm sure everyone (self included) would be happy with them.  instead they choose probably the worst possible solution you could imagine.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=5428880

 

MS's bribe might have worked if it wasn't for the fact that sony has a bigger first party and MS doesn't have enough money to buy the entire 3rd party development community.  sure they have a few great exclusives but so does everyone else and like last gen 90% of their library will be on sony's machine.

 


Yeah that would be an infinitly better system no doubt about it.



LurkerJ on 12 June 2013

DRM policies are obviously here to stay then, bad news. I was hoping the backlash would make them reconsider.



DarthVolod on 12 June 2013
mii-gamer said:
scat398 said:
The disc truly is the horse and buggy whip of this generation and its time is quickly coming to an end. Microsoft is thinking two steps ahead of the competition right now.


what happens to the collectors. Will they be an endangered species?

 

There is always retro collecting. I am a pretty big collector myself, but I am yet to come across a collector that has a complete collection of every system/game. It is sort of like collecting Star Wars toys/merchandise .... it would take a lifetime to collect most of it.

 

Or they can buy a PS4 ... that's what I intend to do.



BinaryDelt on 12 June 2013
DarthVolod said:

what happens to the collectors. Will they be an endangered species?

 

There is always retro collecting. I am a pretty big collector myself, but I am yet to come across a collector that has a complete collection of every system/game. It is sort of like collecting Star Wars toys/merchandise .... it would take a lifetime to collect most of it.

 

Or they can buy a PS4 ... that's what I intend to do.

Retro collecting is awesome.  We have 2 great flea markets that have a lot of old games near my house.  I also intend to buy a PS4.  Preordered on Amazon.