Tell me this " do you think it is right fro a person  to borrow firneds copy of the game and finish single player an plays hours of multiplayer without havging to paya single dime for the game amnd relies on doing that? Do you think thats right and legal? No it looks like  games today are reluctant to change. its obvious that we will eventually get to that stage in gaming where everythign will be on interent and everythign digital.  It almost as if gamers want to saty behind and not progress/ The days that we had back in the 80s, 90s and 00s are not goign to stay forerv. As technology so will the ways we will game.  Stea, does somethign imilar to what MS is doing. I have a friedn ho is harcore steam fan and he after lookng at MS policy said it reminds him of steam. He said the policy are not a big deal . My friend hates consoles and oves pc and he veen consoles conssle gamer infidels noobs but after watching xbox one E3 he preordered xboxone  which will be his first console purchase in his life lol. The checkign s bewcayse you are using teh ctsuss from tbhe cloud so they are just making sure no one is stealing the game for free. I am sureyou wo 't even relise it happeneing while its being performed in background whil e playing

How about this: If someone is dropping like $500 for a new platform to play content, and there are competitors out there, why wouldn't they pay attention more?  A $500 purchase is NOT something parents will do lightly.  A new game console isn't like a smart phone, or even a tablet, which are argued to be needed.  What a console is, is an optional toy.  Microsoft expects customers to NOT pay attention?

I didn't say you should rebuy it. I said your brother should make his own account and buy his own games using his account. Theres a difference here. It is piracy here as for each game a person doens't buy and borrow  to finish it ,, is equivalent to one less copy. Now if millions and millions do that , then milliosn of potential sales would have been lost. Imagine a good company misses target sales by 500k but finds out the game has been pirated 3 million times and now faces shutting down. Whos fault is that when it could have been prevented if you weren't allowed to share it like that. The reason why they are more strict because gamers these days are doign it more often we as gamners made thm do it by being chep skates. If you can't afford to buy the game ,, jsut wait till tis cheap. Is it that much important to polay the game straight away? Do you even know what Piracy means?

Um not all games. Metro2033 on steam requires me to be onlin just to get steam s you need steam to launch the game. You can't just put the game in an dlaunch it without launching steam. That itslef reyqures always on internet conenction. Same with Red faction armageddon. I have these games on pc hence why i know it requires an internet connection to just play the game. Haha pc market does not make as much as consoles. Wicther 2 doesn't have DRM and it was a bloddy good rpg yet people rather pirate it then pay fro the game. If teh game weren't pirated then teh dveloper would have attained bigger profit which would be useful to the company as its a small studio and any profit is good profit for them. PC gamers are generally cheap skates lol. There alot of good games that hav ebeen pirated alot because people don't want to buy it and pc games are genrally cheaper then cpnsoles by quite a bit  especially where i am based at .
Witcher company is against DRM hece the GOG site adn yet the game was pirated 4.5 millions time. What can you say to that?

"Microsoft is adding DRM for the sake of annoying it's legitimate customers, if people are going to mod and pirate games, they are going to do it regardless of a 24 hour check in or not, they will just disable that functionality." I am sure Ms woudl find a way to prevent it.  Gamers have to learn that nothing is free in life.. If you want to play game ,, spend the cash for it and if you can't afford it  then wait for a discount . Simple enough right?

Why do people play steam? Why do people  need to conenct onlien to play games on steam?  Why is steam really popular? Is the way of teh future and irts boudn to happen  .  Sharing gaems to friends hwo would never pay a diem and repa the benefits of finishing the SP and multiplayer is worng and piracy. Whats teh difference in waitign  for a new game to drop in price then buyign teh second hand game. As you gusy buy it because its cheaper right? Why ot wait for ne game to drop in price.Same concept right .

Good point.  They are technically saying that they fully expect people to pay attention and that their "data points" indicate consumers will side with them.  It's just hard to believe they think that will work.

When asked about the negative reaction of the internet and E3 towards Xbone's DRM, Microsoft Xbox Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer Yusuf Mehdi replied: "I think it's fair to say there's a segment of consumers at this show in particular who really pay attention, who are very passionate about all aspects of gaming, and that we listen to closely. In a broader set of community, people don't pay attention to a lot of the details. We've seen it in the research, we've seen it in a lot of the data points."

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/06/microsoft-defends-the-xbox-ones-licensing-used-game-policies/

Sounds to me like he is saying that they will get away with the DRM because most consumers are too ignorant. Do you agree?

Physical copies of Activision & Bethesda require Steam as well. My point was that even mega publishers go through Steam, because it maximises their profit. I believe you agree with that. Steam has a fixed % cut for digital purchases, I don't know if they get a cut for physical steam-enabled copies. Other than that, the publisher/developer sets the price. Personally, I don't care for call of duty. If I can get cool games like Alan Wake or Hitman Absolution for less than 10 bucks, then I'm cool with that. To be honest though, since I got Playstation Plus I don't have nearly enough time to finish the games I get from there, so go figure ^^.

Now you may not like Steam, but I assure you the Xbox marketplace will be A LOT more expensive. And yes you are wrong, the Bone will fail. Massively. DRM or not, 500 dollars is completely out of touch with the market.

Publishers go through steam because it is a widley used DRM platform that removes ownership from the user and results in no second hand market or (legal) way to lend/give away games which in turn results in being more profitable(in publishers eyes, I can go into the benifits of the used market but thats a long discussion). XBone could potentially be the console equivalent of that(though Im not sure what is going to happen with the 10 person share thing). I agree MS store will be a lot more expensive based on their abysmal(save for the occasional sale) G.O.D and GFWL digital services. $500 isnt too far off from $400 and people will go after it if their favorite games are exclusive to that system. There is a legion of "hardcore" gamers on the internet + many vocal fanboys. This is not a representation of the average consumer(which probably makes up 90+% of the market) or how the gen is going to go. If MS can exclusively secure popular games because of the DRM their machine provides it will be a success and will dictate the direction of next gen.

Publishers go through steam because it is a widley used DRM platform that removes ownership from the user and results in no second hand market or (legal) way to lend/give away games which in turn results in being more profitable(in publishers eyes, I can go into the benifits of the used market but thats a long discussion).