Then let them die. This stuff happens every generation. This stuff happens in business.

When one falls, another will rise to take their place.

If their solution to "fixing" the industry is to fuck over, blame and push all of the costs to the consumer then this industry is toast to begin with.

Of course that stuff won't go away.

What would happen is they would go 100% DRM and overall game sales and revenue will not reach where they expect. That or it does and then either they raise budgets or investors demand higher revenues. At that point they will just fucking blame us for something else and fuck us all in the ass again.

Most of you (Cliffy B. included) don't realize that would have taken weeks to come up with at the very least so I would have to assume they considered this right after the reveal. That means they were heading into E3 knowing this (a major reason why they weren't talking about DRM and blocking used games). The preorders weren't the reason they did this nor was Sony's E3 showing, those were just icing on the cake. The real reason was the backlash right after the Xbox reveal event. Also just because the obvious DRM was removed doesn't mean that DRM is fully removed. All those Xbone games are still relying on "the power of the cloud" so those games will still have some "DRM" in them.

Cliffy is getting dumber and dumber by the day.

I won't.

I don't think I have ever bought a single piece of downloadable content for any game ever. I also always read the metacritic on a game before I touch it. Same with the expansions. I have played several of those free online mmos but I have never paid them a dime for extra content other than for the TribalWars premium account which was totally worth it in that case. I played Planetside 2 for an hour and promptly deleted the piece of crap off of my computer. I'm not in danger in the slightest.

Free to play is the next route DLC will be taking with a vengeance. I always knew with  gaming they would be forcing larger DLC on us regardless of Microsofts policy on DRM.  Once I heard about the Killer Instinct downloads and People who pay for COD pay like almost $200 a year for the game, season pass and used to pay for elite. Mass Effect after EA bought them has DLC up the yin yang forcing people to pay $100 after DLC with the games. They are chopping up the games when we should be getting larger campaigns for our money. "Omega" and "Ashes" in Mass Effect 3 should've never been DLC. This would've never stopped knowing EA. Cliffy an Epic are no different with their DLC packs forcing us to pay $100 in the end for DLC with our game.

Videogames make revenue from merch as well as videogames. They aren't stupid and hold themselves down. Look at all they put into special editions. They sell making of books, music DVD's come on man.