The REAL Reason for Xbox One DRM ..... :ohhh:

[Rekkapryde]

Taken from you now where....but it makes total fukkin sense....


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"So, I just realized something about Microsoft's DRM approach that seems incredibly obvious in retrospect, but that didn't hit me until just now.

That is, Microsoft's DRM policy has nothing at all to do with preventing used games sales to benefit the publishers. It never did. Instead, they're doing it to deliberately devalue the physical disk.

If game buyers decide that there's no longer any advantages in buying the physical product, they will more and more just go ahead and download their games.

Result? Microsoft takes the retailer cut for all those game sales, just like Apple. The revenue that GameStop and BestBuy and Amazon take from game sales vanishes, and instead all goes to Microsoft.

No wonder Microsoft isn't bothering with taking a vig when participating retailers take a user's game in for resale. That's not what they're after at all.

And no wonder GameStop managers are trying to convince everyone to go PS4 instead of XBox One for their pre-orders."


Thoughts???

 

[Loose]

you can't even make your own threads damn

 

[daze23]

yeah, that's why digital games should be cheaper

 

[Rekkapryde]

you can't even make your own threads damn

I've made enough this week....

Besides, I'm trying to get us some more shine here in the Cadium.

The console wars alone have generated so much traffic here that we gotta keep it up.

Don't worry, tommorow, MS will do something again that I can party on.

 

[radio rahiem]

so xboxone is the console equivalent to steam/origin?

 

[Bud Bundy]

^^^
it seems that way.

I think i am just going to start downloading my games in the next generation.

 

[-DMP-]

You think sony and or microsoft wouldnt kill to have an Itunes for video games?

Especially Microsoft, if they could impose an itunes like dominance, they could have a strangle hold on the avg consumer home and possibly create a multifaceted ecosystem, much like apple.

Microsoft could, essentially sell you everything for your phone tablet and windows pc from xbox live. And the same could work from other windows mediums as well.

Its much deeper than games.

-DMP-

 

[Mensch Fontana]

i thought the drm was to force planned obsolesence

Sent from my cheapass phone using Tapatalk 2

 

[Leasy]

Microsoft business practices are fukkin horrible. Point Blank.
Zune was amazing. Microsoft ruined it.
Windows Phone OS nice but Microsoft and their restrictions has developers not giving a fukk
Xbox 1
Surface Tablet amazing Microsoft overpriced and fukk up
Windows 8 they fukked up.
Windows ME they fukked up
Windows Vista
I can go on.
Sooner or later it was going to translate to XBox.
Damn they suck. I use to be one of their biggest fans too.

 

[Spliff]

So devalue physical discs, condition consumers to go DD, hope hard data shows significant decrease in physical sales, present data to retailers like , and somehow go full DD when the dust settles?




Chess not checker

 

[Tic Tac T O]

I'd rather buy the disc and install it directly then download a big ass fukkin file that'll take forever and fukk up my shytty bandwidth

 

[Grand Conde]

so xboxone is the console equivalent to steam/origin?

No.

 

[detach]

Taken from you now where....but it makes total fukkin sense....


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"So, I just realized something about Microsoft's DRM approach that seems incredibly obvious in retrospect, but that didn't hit me until just now.

That is, Microsoft's DRM policy has nothing at all to do with preventing used games sales to benefit the publishers. It never did. Instead, they're doing it to deliberately devalue the physical disk.

If game buyers decide that there's no longer any advantages in buying the physical product, they will more and more just go ahead and download their games.

Result? Microsoft takes the retailer cut for all those game sales, just like Apple. The revenue that GameStop and BestBuy and Amazon take from game sales vanishes, and instead all goes to Microsoft.

No wonder Microsoft isn't bothering with taking a vig when participating retailers take a user's game in for resale. That's not what they're after at all.

And no wonder GameStop managers are trying to convince everyone to go PS4 instead of XBox One for their pre-orders."


Thoughts???

I would believe this if XBL games on demand were actually reasonably price. You could go out to GameStop and buy used games for cheaper than on games on demand.

 

[BlvdBrawler]

I'd rather buy the disc and install it directly then download a big ass fukkin file that'll take forever and fukk up my shytty bandwidth

I'd rather download a file myself but I'd also prefer not to have to check in daily for that convenience.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

yeah, that's why digital games should be cheaper

Even if games aren't cheaper. All you need is one good "family" member and all games are half off.

As for the op. @Rekkapryde if this is their ultimate goal, isn't that better for the industry? Gamers get new benefits, publishers get more money for their games AND game prices go down. What's the problem here?