You claim that is what they wanted to do , but infact they wanted to transfer over to a less expensive future for all of us.
For steam you can enable off line mode for certain games , for example I play civ 5 and xcom a lot while my gf has been playing my copy of south park.
The one would have a 24 hour check. So I would have been able to lend you a game and then play another game off line while your playing my original game.
Lets just start with steam that you claimed was a great solution. Did you ever borrow someone else one of your games, and were you able to play your other games when he was playing yours?
What you are suggesting is something totally different, that is using Steams offline mode and sharing your account to every single game you own.
What One was trying to do was full retarded instead of oscar worthy. If they had went ahead with everything they wanted just for DD they would have moved DD to the next lvl. But they didn´t get the oscar.
What we want is a clearcut supported DD solution where i can borrow my game to someone on my friends list without losing any access to my other games, hell i would accept a 48 hour cooldown before i could play it again when he was done. I would even accept a 7 day maximum on the borrow out period.
Of course the moment this was implementer instead of kinguin.net for keys for every DD service out there we would have kinguin.net for renting games with someone building a service that would make lots of money on being the Blockbuster service for DD, so i doubt it will ever happen without lots of limitations like steam has now.
Optical discs are a waste in so many ways.
1) They are slow as hell
They serve as a transfer medium right now so totally invalid argument, games never installed faster on consoles than they today, at least on the PS4.
2) They hold only 50 gigs and thus we will eventually get limited by the disc size or developers will have to shell out more money for more discs
7 GB is enough, remember? yeh, didn´t think so, since there is no artificial reason (7GB is enough!) to keep the 2nd disc expensive i doubt it will ever be a problem for really big games.
3) The optical drives are extremely bulky and expensive. For the price and size of an optical drive you can put in a fast 3.5 inch drive of larger capacity than the 2.5 inch drive and decrease the size of the console by a great degree.
4) Cost - Compared to carts they were a revolution in the gaming industry. Going from $30 for 32megs of storage to $3 or $5 for 750 megs was a huge boom. But even at the start we went backwards in transfer rates and now the difference in transfer rates and seek times is vastly lower than hard drives. With a bluray , you need to press the discs , add them to the packing , print the packaging and then ship them all over the world. DD the data is hosted on servers around the world nad downloaded.
Take these to our old thread, and be reminded of the good old days.
I am fully for a digital future , My music and my movies have transitioned and its so much better and on the pc I haven't bought a physical copy of a game in a long time . I'm just waiting on the consoles to go that way.
I love my cloud services as well, they are a fine compromise for convenience, but i still buy cd´s and watch blu rays when i want to go above the average quality. And i buy lots of games on the PC, they are dirt cheap and it´s almost impossible to not get some kind of DD crap even if you buy discs.
