Haven't studies shown that PC piracy has gone down due to the relatively lax DRM and easy access (price, safety, and amount of clicks) to games that programs like Steam have brought along? In fact, I'd be certain to say it has just looking at some of the people on there right now with 200+ games bought (with something half not even played yet).
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A digital future is a good thing, but are the restraints of a digital system a good thing to place on a still physical market? I don't even know why they're bothering with discs when they might as well just be selling code cards at Gamestop instead. Sure, it's nice for people who have slower connections that don't want to wait an hour every time a new game comes out, but seeing as they need the internet to even verify the game anyway, why bother?Don't fool yourself. People want to get up in arms about DRM, but the industry is dying. It's on life support. Is piracy the only reason? No, far from it, but the point is that it has to change--to evolve into something different to survive. This sort of crippled-trade (which people don't have the full story on yet) issue people take with the XBOne is stupid. Can you trade your Steam or Origin games after you've played them? Can you trade a PSN title or Xbox LIVE Arcade game? No. They're digital, which is exactly where the industry is going. Microsoft simply manned up and decided it would be willing to take all the tomatoes from the audience while Sony still hasn't even shown us what the system looks like.
The methods of the Xbox's store are still to be determined as well, so I won't get into that right now until more is known. All I can say is I hope they looked to how Steam works and aren't thinking a system where every game is $60 at all times is going to work as well.
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I can understand your position on this. I can also understand from my position as a consumer, that this console is not for me. Agree to disagree, I suppose.
