Recent content by MrFloopy

Having worked with them on a few titles and working with others who have worked with them on completely separate titles, I would say that is the complete opposite of true compared to other publishers. We always enjoyed working with them, and they have always been very supportive of our autonomy...

My thoughts are that the online requirement was needed for two reasons. From a technical point, it was required for disk to digital conversion, which as others here have found, other alternatives are not particularly workable. From a business point of view it was necessary to control disc...

or PS3 or x360 or WiiU or Wii or PS2 or PS1 or N64, hell even C64....I can go on if you like. You don't need MS to give you any other options. Other companies can. Why do you see this as only a choice within MS. I have plenty of options if I want things the same way. See above. If I have a...

The minority had a multitude of other options. The majority don't. Do you see a problem? Sounds simple. Those people at ms must be morons for not figuring that out. You should offer your services.

Yeah, no wonder they changed that :) Not at the same time, no. I got 99 reasons to be sad, but this ain't one. ;) Hey look, I'm all meme-y and stuff.

I haven't used the sharing feature on PSN. How does it work? If I share it on 5 consoles, any user can use it without restriction? All 5 can use it simultaneously without restriction?

Oh please, every other post in the last 2 months in the console forum has included at least a veiled insult :) With regards to the game sharing being demo versions rumour: It makes no sense to me that this is what they would have been offering. Surely if that is what it was, they wouldn't...

I've been thinking about this a lot this weekend, starting with my thoughts about seller's right to set terms. Afterwards I started thinking about price theory and I was reminded that prices will always reach an items true value. My next thought was that if this is the case then games pricing...

So apart from the reasons people choose windows over other solutions, there are no reasons for people to chose windows over other solutions. Simple, really.

I agree, it's just silly to say windows has more appeal simply because many times more people choose to buy it over other products.

That's what I have tried to find out before. It certainly has not been clear at all. The direct statements I have seen from Sony execs seem to point at it being up to 3rd party publishers, but Sony as a publisher will not restrict resale. The unusually confused messages coming out of both...

If it is as they say, the same as the PS3, then it does indeed have built in DRM, as did PS2, as did PS1, and I know you know that. Unfortunately, as expected the argument shifts to implementation rather than policy, which was not the discussion I was trying to have. The policy of both MS...

lol, so by everything you mean nothing, gotcha :)

Ah, I see, so they've said that they won't allow 3rd party publishers to implement DRM on used game sales unless it's online, in which case they've said they shouldn't do that because they have PSN+ to cover that but they can't stop them from doing it. So again what's the difference with the...

Did they not say they wouldn't allow publishers to charge for multiplayer? So can third party publishers charge / restrict multiplayer or not. If they are not allowed to, as has been stated clearly elsewhere with reasons given for that decision, then what exactly can publishers charge for...