I think that is bull though, because the whole "focusing on one game" a month thing with some sort of community banding together to play an old game hasn't been happening with the other services. Day of the Tentacle is out for PS+ for free, that is millions of people getting to play an old game right now.. for free. Where are the memes?
Because as he said, consumers aren't actually playing the game. They're just adding it to their disposable collection as yet another game that they own among the hundreds that they never play for longer than an hour.
Look at your Steam games list. I know I have something like 600 games. That's absurd when you think about it. How many have I played? Maybe 60? Yet because I get them so cheap I pick em up and maybe play them once. That's a race to the bottom that basically makes games completely worthless. It's what drives people to avoid paying full price for a game at launch full knowing that in 3 months they'll get it for $20. They'll play it for a day then toss it into the pile of forgotten software.
In the long run, this basically kills modern gaming. You'll see a couple games a year from a publisher where the value holds for maybe a month. We're already seeing it with studios closing and games being cancelled. Scalebound being the most recent big profile game to fall to this. Sure indies will pick up the slack because the barrier of entry is practically nonexistent anymore, but 95% of those games are a dime a dozen that you collect and once again throw into the pile of uselessness. That's not how you promote a healthy industry, that's how you kill it.
Is he seriously suggesting that giving the consumer/player too much value is killing the industy? The hell??
Because your opinion of "value" is that games should be dirt cheap and if they're older than a few weeks they should have a steep discount. You aren't valuing those games, you're just hoarding them into an unplayed collection then complaining when other companies don't give you the ability to just take their products for free as not having "value" or "anti-consumer."