1. You can't just cherry pick cheap apps, digital movies purchases are $20-$35, a whole tv season rental is larger than $0.99 cents and an entire music album is more than $15-$25.
2. I support gamers with the idea my console offline games should be play any time for as long as I like. This was in my post above.
3. If your friend is borrowing your game for a 12-96+ hour sessions then yes they are abusing the game license you the owner are entitled to. I stated this should be more reasonable than 1 hour. Say 3-5 hours is a solid compromise.
4. Digital movie purchases don't let you borrow or resell them and neither does music or apps so why should games allow that? At least X1 is allowing taking such purchases elsewhere or giving away 1 time etc. Other industries or app stores aren't so generous.
5. The old methods of take or give my disc to a friend are short changing developers and publishers while also being hard to enforce. The same goes for shop rental licensing. The dawn of new technology means we gamers and companies alike have to progressively develop new methods.
6. They are also allowing some flexibility per publisher.
7. It's not about the money they get from you. It is about the money they don't get from the second hand sale. No monies from your friend and generally speaking no royalties or licensing from the stores doing the trading either as the self reporting and lack of ease to enforce equates to develops/publisher not getting a second game sale or a piece of the second hand sale.
1.Name me one show or movie that costs that much for digital download that didn't come as a standalone blu-ray or dvd purchase. Your first point was the smartphone app industry doesn't allow you to trade games or apps. Which game or app is close to $60? I'm not cheery picking, you are. The majority of the top apps are free to 99 cents.
2. Of course we should have unlimited offline play.
3. How am I depriving the devs or publishers from anything by letting a friend borrow or use my product? What difference does it make if someone in my household plays the game or my friend down the street? Am I depriving HP by letting a friend borrow my laptop? What about bringing a movie over and watching it at my girlfriends house? What about me borrowing my dad's pickup? Why is games any different? Especially if it's a physical disc I own?
4. Digital or movies purchases are also a fraction of what it costs to buy the standalone retail disc on blu ray or dvd. There is a trade off in convenience. You get a digital file that you can use on multiple devices etc. And it's cheaper, but you can't trade it. Tell me if digital downloads for Xbox One will be cheaper than physical discs. Nope, even today, digital downloads are more expensive on Xbox Live than what you can get the actual disc for. So your point is moot. If MS charges $60 for discs, and only $30 for digital download, then I'll agree it's fair I can't trade or share my digital games.
Your last points are just regurgitated anti-consumer bullshit that I honestly have trouble believing you are so in favor of it. Devs are not fucking shortchanged. They got their fucking money when I bought the game. They are not entitled to money for eternity or on every secondary sale. Why is the games industry one of the few that now thinks it's entitled to second hand sales? Especially in face of record revenues?
They don't deserve any money after sale. Just as no other company or product on earth requires you to pay them to sell it.
The car company doesn't deserve money if I want to sell my car, Samsung doesn't deserve money if I decide to sell my television, it doesn't deserve money if I try and sell my phone, Universal doesn't deserve money if I sell my Back to the Future trilogy etc. I could go on and on.
I don't get it. I don't understand. It doesn't affect me at all but I'm not going to sit here trying to pass off snake oil as a good thing. Anyways I'm done you believe what you want.
Edit: I don't know, it seems like you are a part time dev and so are obviously biased, but I'm just going to say as my last point, doesn't matter if other industries do it, the point is, till now the gaming industry didn't follow them. Of course I'll protest if they do, quit trying to say it's a good thing for gamers when it's not. It's good for publishers who are making record revenues and they are the ones pushing for it most. The biggest con is the people saying that when devs and pubs start getting money from second hand sales, that they'll pass on the savings to consumers etc.
