I used to work for EB Games and we all know how they make a large percentage of their profits from used games (and none of that profit goes to developers or publishers). Am I the only one here who is glad Microsoft is pushing always online DRM to kill the retailer's grip on the profits from the used game market?
On another note, if Sony doesn't follow suit I feel like they will suffer in the long term, and will be helping gaming retail to scam developers and publishers out of the money they deserve. I actually think the #PS4noDRM crowd is going to damage the industry if they succeed in persuading Sony to keep things as they've been.
Why don't you and people like you get some fucking perspective? OMG GameStop! Oh no! Oh no! You're so damned short-sighted. This is not all about the here and now. This is about history, rights, preservation and choice. If you think MS and other videogame companies give a damn about you either way, you're a loon.
This isn't just about the short-term profits of today (and it is yet to be proven that such DRM will help the industry. It is just as likely that the industry will stagnate and become more consolidated as people become more cautious in their purchases). This is also about 5 years, 10 years and more from now and your rights to continue to enjoy your games. To buy any game you want and to not worry about certification servers being shutoff. *gasp* I bought a SNES/PS2/Xbox 1 game off of eBay. How did Nintendo/Sony/MS profit from that? OMG eBay! Oh no! Oh no!
But I hate GameStop! I hate used games! Are you such a corporate sycophant that you hate yourself too? If so, okay. But why you and others expect the rest of us that don't loath ourselves and bootlick those who don't really have our interests at heart, to get on that train with you is beyond me and shows the worst kind of critical thinking (or lack thereof).
This obsession with getting money from used games is the basest nonsense! If the industry wants money from used games, why don't they setup an online store and sell them competitively themselves? What's stopping them? Buy used games and resell them themselves? That GameStop, eBay and every other Tom, Dick and Harry does. But that would require effort. Can't have that in the games industry!
Most of the automakers have certified used cars, from which they make additional money when they are sold. The automakers make money off those used cars, because they have added value to the deal beyond the original manufacture of the vehicle. The currently proposed DRM setup adds no value of any kind beyond taking away rights and then giving some of them back to you for a price. Compare the two! Automakers: Sell new car. Make money. Get used car, expend additional effort, make even more money! MS and current DRM proposal: Sell new game. Make money. Do jack squat with used games, do nothing to add value to said used games. Make even more money! Can you see the difference between the two methods? I can!
The fact that people like you praise these methods with a straight face, policies that hurt you at least partly as well, whether you acknowledge it or not, is just astounding to me. That you and others of the same bent seem puzzled that others don't think like yourself, it almost seems like a posture.
If I've offended anyone, I'm sorry. But I keep seeing these 'GameStop! Oh no! Oh no!" -like comments from people and their reasoning makes almost zero sense, even if you take things wholly from their perspective and use no others. If it doesn't hold up even to their own internal logic, what chance does it have to hold up to others who don't agree with them?
GameStop is not the fucking evil empire. If you don't want to do business with them, then don't. But cutting them off, cuts off everyone else whom you don't hate (unless you hate that people can sell their games on eBay, in which case, good luck to you). This desire to hurt yourself and others, just as long as GameStop is hurt, is kind of sad.
