Nope this is big corporations that doesn't give a f*ck about anything else but their profit, that is pure evil in my world. They don't care at all about their customers unless it makes them money or costs them money. And for some strange reason many people thinks it's "allright" because money makes the world go around and nothing else matters. Nintendo is actually one of the few companies that has principles that cost them money but matters to them because of moral issues, at least from the outside. Sony and Microsoft couldn't care less, as long as it's within the law they will milk every last penny from their beloved customers.
But, as a customer and purchaser of a game i am entitled to owning that game and doing whatever the hell i want with it, including selling it to gamestop. Now just because Gamestop made a business on used games the world shouldn't stop. In capitalistic sense they should applauded for building a business on other peoples work, it's all about money after all and they did something smart.. right?
It would be the easiest thing in the world for Sony and Microsoft to compete with Gamestop.
But because someone made a smart move the consumer has to pay with time limited games that can't always be played and has very low resale value?
No thanks, then rather spend money on a platform where i can just "take my games" that i am perfectly entitled to own. And about steam, i have 2 PC's in offline mode so that the kid can play his Lego games even if i am logged in. I guess that is wrong if you ask the same people that wants to ban used games.. but it works, and it's been offline for a long time. That is sensible Online DRM. What Microsoft is suggesting is crap compared to that. In 5 years some people will own many games, maybe 30 games.. but if something happens, unpaid bill, internet down, hacker attack (it's bound to happen) then there is no way that person can play his collection because ET can't phone home. In 20 years every XBOX One game could potentially be useless. And to take it to the extreme, from this generation on there will be no cultural history kept for the next generations when it comes to games (there goes the tax break). If ONE and FOUR does this, so will the next generation. I would say we need the lawmakers to protect our cultural history, including the games.
But hey, when everyone just eats whatever it's served and even defends stupid consumer limiting technologies like this we can just wait for the next step. Games that only works for a limited number of days, how could anyone expect to buy(license) a game and just keep on enjoying it for months. It costs millions to create that game and in order to recoup the costs gamers that enjoy the experience should obviously pay for the second playthrough. It's not like it was meant to be used for unlimited hours.
