HSH28 wrote:Zombitedesade wrote:The fact that this 'feature' is at the great personal freedoms of the end user and does not, as yet seem to value the consumer in any way whatsoever however he's helpfully ignoring.
The always connected part and the DRM part aren't necessarily the same thing.
Zombitedesade wrote:Bottom line here: if you buy into this bollocks now, do not moan, cry and whine later when you yourself set a precedent: that your personal freedoms as a consumer are totally and utterly dictated and controlled by the publishers and not you in the end.
I'm afraid you are a bit late to that party, the precedent was set years ago.
You talk as if consumers don't have any say in any of this. As if its a done deal, it's the way it was always gonna be. We are powerless mortals in the face of their corporate might.
No say I. As a consumer, the lifeblood of any of these companies, they have obligations to give me what I want and what I pay for. There's no other way round about this. If these combines start practising bullshit DRM filled anti used game spy on me in my pants to sell me Doritos style assaults I'm not going to give them any money any more.
Nor do you, or anyone else. It's pretty simple. The power is all ours. You just have to exercise some self restraint and look past the shiny cgi exclusives for 2 seconds and say, I'm not falling for this.
Hugo I know why your voting the way you are. You want all the games. All the games means all the systems all of the time. To hell with the consequences right? They can do what they like, I get my halo's, gears and my titanfalls right?
No. I'm willing to sacrifice however those games may or may not turn out on principle. That I have to give up something to have them. No. I already have to give up money to these guys to play those games. strawberry float giving up my rights to sell them on if I wish, to play them offline if I wish and to not be bombarded with strawberry floating Kinect and XBOX: "heres some mountain dew, please buy this before proceeding" If I wish.