Johnny Awesome
Veteran
IMO the Used Game and Always Online issues that forumheads are going on and on about right now are about as big a deal as backwards compatibility was last generation.
Everyone went bananas about BC last generation. In the end, no one cared. Consumers aren't buying new consoles so they can play old games on them. Everyone realizes that now.
It's the same thing with Always Online. Consumers aren't buying powerful online capable gaming machines so that they can leave them offline. Even if AO were true, no one would care a year from now.
Used games? People will get used to whatever gets decided. It's basically a way for publishers to get a secondary revenue stream going at the expense of gamers and/or retailers. It really depends on how costly it is. Even at $5 per game no one will care later.
It's all a tempest in a teapot.
Everyone went bananas about BC last generation. In the end, no one cared. Consumers aren't buying new consoles so they can play old games on them. Everyone realizes that now.
It's the same thing with Always Online. Consumers aren't buying powerful online capable gaming machines so that they can leave them offline. Even if AO were true, no one would care a year from now.
Used games? People will get used to whatever gets decided. It's basically a way for publishers to get a secondary revenue stream going at the expense of gamers and/or retailers. It really depends on how costly it is. Even at $5 per game no one will care later.
It's all a tempest in a teapot.
