FWIW this is the place of demos.... Which every game should be required to have.
I let my friend borrow Halo...the very first one for Xbox. He turned around and bought all of them... Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, ODST, Halo 4 the next week.
Meh hardly. He's right that we're transitioning away from physical media, and this console cycle we'll probably see a much larger swing. It'll be a painful adjustment for some people, and yes some people will lose out. Its not like he avoids the downsides, he just acknowledges there are more than just downsides.
And I would tell those fuckers to get bent. Intellectual Property is thought control. We agree to some of it, because it's a mutual agreement that benefits the creator and the users of ideas.
The creators are taking things too far, and people are starting to get tired of the manipulation and greed. Copyright has been taken too far, and the creators need to be slapped down. They're not gods. They don't get to control the thoughts and culture of the whole world. They need to learn their place.
FWIW this is the place of demos.... Which every game should be required to have.
I let my friend borrow Halo...the very first one for Xbox. He turned around and bought all of them... Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3, ODST, Halo 4 the next week.
It's not the creators... Lets look at it this way. Bungie made Halo, Microsoft published it. How much of the revenue from Halo went to Bungie? 10%? 20%? If it's that high I would be surprised. Microsoft does no work on the game but pockets most of the profit from it.
That's not an article. It's a paid shill fellating MS.
Here's a pretty good article. I recommend the people foaming at the mouth with hatred towards MS stay away from it though.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-21539_...t-need-to-be-the-end-of-gaming-as-we-know-it/
Why are game developers/publishers entitled to a cut every time yet everyone else who makes a product isnt?
Awesome article explained more eloquently than I could have myself.
License vs. physical product.. similar to an itunes library / digital book. Every usage the author / publisher or musician / label gets paid.
So if company A gives you the physical product for $60, and you can loan it, keep it forever, burn it in the BBQ pit, whatever, but company B gives you no such options, you pick B?
So if company A gives you the physical product for $60, and you can loan it, keep it forever, burn it in the BBQ pit, whatever, but company B gives you no such options, you pick B?
most people mess around with everyone in the cast, then fine who they like to play with, and THEN decide to start narrowing their main down.
Less choice! More corporate control! More DRM! YAY! *gobble* *gobble*
That's really not the comparison here and you know it. There is a lot more to this purchase than just this "issue" for a large percentage of users. I for one actually want the media aspects, I want the integration with the rest of their ecosystem, and I want the family options. Those things together are enough for me to justify my purchase of console B over console A because I don't give a shit about what happens with the discs or anything else. I don't buy used, I don't resell, I rarely loan outside of family.
This is just like Steam (with family sharing) except for the sales (that we know of), and I'm perfectly fine with that.
I still don't get why people are up in arms about all this. They're clearly aimed at different segments and people already know which one they want.
I hear nobody saying this about steam, itunes, kindle, etc... your choice is buy a PS4. jesus this isn't the only platform. I don't buy used games so, I'm good, I support the developers
So if company A gives you the physical product for $60, and you can loan it, keep it forever, burn it in the BBQ pit, whatever, but company B gives you no such options, you pick B?
XBOX Live already has trial support for DLC as I've seen it with some titles. I could see them allowing x-day trials for each character so you can see if you like them, or maybe allowing the character to be used in Training Mode only without paying for it. That way, you could see if you think the character is interesting or not. Frankly, I'm probably just going to get Cinder and maybe Spinal and be done. The only problem is... what if your friend comes over and he plays Thunder? Will he be able to use Thunder when he logs into his account as the second player?
Why do you act like the family share thing is something amazing. You've been able to do it all along already You aren't playing Halo and your son wants too, he can play it, hell anybody can play it that you give that disc too with no restrictions. I don't understand how this is some new magical feature just because MS made it a bullet point to try and make it look like one doesn't mean it is one.
I hear nobody saying this about steam, itunes, kindle, etc... your choice is buy a PS4. jesus this isn't the only platform. I don't buy used games so, I'm good, I support the developers
No, people freakin' hated Steam when it first came out.
Things like this were posted all over the net: