I'm curious, what EXACTLY about the DRM offends you guys? I feel like people these days are just jumping on the "Hate on XBOX1 DRM" bandwagon just because it's the cool thing to do.
Do I like the DRM? No. Does it affect me? Not really. Does it affect a good portion of the community? No. Really the only people I've seen who can complain about it are military personnel who take xbox overseas for entertainment. My interest is somewhat peaked to get games 50% off. One reason I'm not much into single player games right now is I can't justify 60$ for a game with no replay value that I might not even like - but now with the ability to share games once with a friend for free it is only 30$. They are doing no different than PC games these days - and I don't remember Blizzard coming under fire like MS is today.
Let me count the ways that DRM offends me and affects everyone:
10 Things I Hate About the Microsoft Xbone's DRM
1. If I don't like the game, or if I've played a game to its conclusion, or if there is any other reason I am not going to want to play it anymore, I can't sell, trade or gift it to get something back in value - money, another game or the appreciation of a friend or family member not in the same household.
2. The likelihood that this DRM will actually result in the pricing of games decreasing is next to nothing. Despite all the hubaloo from developers and publishers over the years that resales of used games hurt their bottom line, I highly doubt that this restrictive DRM will result in them lowering prices.
3. Years from now when the Xbone is no longer produced and MS has moved on to XBVista, XBNext or whatever other non-sequential dumb name they will give their next gen console after the XBone, it is highly unlikely that the XBone cloud servers will stay online and functioning, resulting in consumers having a dead obsolete piece of technology that is no longer playable.
4. From MS server outages to ISP shutdowns to just plain laggy connections, there will be a moment, no matter how brief or how long, each and every one of us will experience that will prevent us from gaming on the console at one point or another. This will not just affect military personnel or people in rural areas.
5. Release day fiascos. Any PC user that has bought a DL game off Steam has experienced this. Heavy traffic resulting in hours long DL and install times.
6. Since we can't resell, trade or gift away crappy games, there is little to no incentive for developers and publishers to release non-buggy or non-crappy games. The customer gets stuck with them with no recourse. Using Blizzard as an example is not a sample. They are the exception. They will take years to develop a game and only release it "when it's done". Naturally, Blizzard consumers will take whatever the developer gives them DRM wise because it is an exceptional product.
7. I can no longer buy used games. Right or wrong, I prefer to buy certain games used at used prices. What MS and game developers/publishers fail to realize is that used game pricing is part of market pricing. People are willing to buy a used most of the time because it costs less than the retail price. When the option to buy used games is removed, it will not automatically result in those same people buying the game new instead. Those consumers will either be removed from the market altogether due to financial reasons, or they will simply wait until the game drops down in price to an affordable level. A good example of this for me are sports games. I don't feel the need to get this year's iteration of Madden right away, nor do I feel it supports a value of $60, when I can play basically the same game, albeit a few years older, at a significant lesser value.
8. I can no longer benefit from Gamestop's return policy for used games. Buy a new game, and it sucks, you eat it. Previously, buy a used game and it sucks, return it in 7 days for a full refund.
9. Gamefly will not be able to rent us games. I don't rent games, but any pro-consumer person would want the consumer to have as many options as possible, whether its to buy new games, buy used games or rent games. More options for the consumer make it better for all of us. Also, no rentals from Gamefly means no buying previously viewed games off Gamefly.
10. The Cloud. So games aren't tied to the machine this time but rather the cloud. Great. What happens when my account gets hacked or hijacked? This will happen. Steam accounts get hacked and hijacked. What makes MS think they are different. also, as we see with Steam, accounts get suspended, rightfully or sometimes wrongfully. more than likely this will happen with the Cloud. Guess what, now you cant play the games you paid for because you cannot go online or access the Cloud.
's shame those we are can't get excited about it and talk about what they liked out of the E3 rather than all this additional BS...
