awesomebro
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You can still play them on the xbox 360..?
you clearly don't understand what OP is talking about
You can still play them on the xbox 360..?
There is a good chance all three of these happen:
Backwards compatibility on next platform
Cloud streaming
MS will patch the platform ala steam and divx to accept titles
This is the start of DD generation through X1
Gaben will press the button and then commit suicide, sacrificing his life so everyone has their steam libraries intact.Such a switch would be a legal nightmare. I never believed Steam even had this switch, much less being capable of using it without getting sued into oblivion.
There is a good chance all three of these happen:
Backwards compatibility on next platform
Cloud streaming
MS will patch the platform ala steam and divx to accept titles
This is the start of DD generation through X1
The whole point of virtualized servers is that cost reduces over time and you can easily create/destroy machines for neccesary load.
One would hope that paying that monthly Live fee means they can audit the community when the next system comes out and manage VMs as neccesary. Assuming cloud based gaming isn't ubiquitous at that point.
Also, given they've moved to x86 architecture it seems that backwards comparability is guaranteed from here on out.
What if MS said they had a DRM kill switch like Steam?
When Steam dies one day you will lose every single Steam game you ever purchased....how does that sound? Why does Valve get an A+ but Microsoft an F? The DRM system is exactly the same.
The PS4 is more than likely going to have mandatory game installs that are account linked too. They even mentioned automatic HDD installs at the Sony press conference but nobody freaked out.
It is not the same. How can you equate that? If I upgrade my PC in a couple years, my Steam library will still be intact. I won't have to use my old PC; the library is still there and it follows me around as the years go on. Meanwhile, the only way to play PSN or XBLA digital games is to keep your old systems forever. That is DRM within DRM. Software and hardware. The digital library on consoles right now is an enclosed graveyard.
Yes, both are digital downloads, but to compare Steam or anything on PC to the consoles at this moment in time is closing your eyes and refusing to see what is in front of us right now. I will not be surprised when your purchases are limited to the Xbox One and cannot carry over to the Two. Meanwhile, my Steam libarary (or other PC service libraries) from a decade or so before will still be following me around, completely playable, barring any new OS bugs. And even those are almost always patched when encountered. I'd love it if my XBLA and PSN purchases would follow me to the next system, but I had an inkling for many years this wouldn't happen. I just don't trust console companies due to the close nature of the platform. There is no reason for them to have any sort of BC since gamers will repurchase games again and again.
Consoles have a long way to go to prove they can get even a fraction of the trust PC gamers have in a service like Steam; this past generation is a huge strikeout for positive digital library progress for consoles (and the next gen is laughable with Nintendo's worrisome DD system right now). It is not by chance that Steam has garnered such admiration and trust. Consoles, on the other hand, just fell flat on their untrustworthy face.
When Steam dies one day you will lose every single Steam game you ever purchased....how does that sound? Why does Valve get an A+ but Microsoft an F? The DRM system is exactly the same.
The PS4 is more than likely going to have mandatory game installs that are account linked too. They even mentioned automatic HDD installs at the Sony press conference but nobody freaked out.
My biggest fear about Xbox One isn't even about used games. It's about how long these games will live. I can still play every Atari 2600 game I bought. All my NES games (battery still works somehow). Game boy.
The biggest one being PC. I can still play just about all those old games on new PC's!
This is spanning 30 years of my gaming history. Every game I ever bought, aside from Final Fantasy 7 PC version which is a bugged game, can be played today.
I can't say the same for Xbox One. Once the servers get shut off, it's done. You're stuck with frisbee's.
This will also hurt collectors.
Because at the end of the day everyone knows that they can crack their games on PC and make them DRM free if they really want to if a Steam doomsday comes. It is not a great situation by any means but at least those games will still continue to exist and be preserved in some form (even if illegal). If Microsoft stops supporting the Xbox One those games will be lost forever.
When Steam dies one day you will lose every single Steam game you ever purchased....how does that sound? Why does Valve get an A+ but Microsoft an F? The DRM system is exactly the same.
My biggest fear about Xbox One isn't even about used games. It's about how long these games will live. I can still play every Atari 2600 game I bought. All my NES games (battery still works somehow). Game boy.
The biggest one being PC. I can still play just about all those old games on new PC's!
This is spanning 30 years of my gaming history. Every game I ever bought, aside from Final Fantasy 7 PC version which is a bugged game, can be played today.
I can't say the same for Xbox One. Once the servers get shut off, it's done. You're stuck with frisbee's.
This will also hurt collectors.
Try this one on: since games have to be 'authorized' to use, Microsoft can change the terms of service at any time to make your games expire, requiring re-purchase.
sony / ms and Nintendo could have done this all last gen too. Whats your point ? Virtual console / psn / xbox arcade all could have had the company flip a switch.
The question is why are people just calling ms out on this when all 3 companies are able to do so
Where have MS said they will do this?There is a good chance all three of these happen:
Backwards compatibility on next platform
Cloud streaming
MS will patch the platform ala steam and divx to accept titles
This is the start of DD generation through X1
If they tried to do so, we could have just unplugged our consoles and there is nothing they could do to stop us playing our games.
Now it is different, because you need to constantly connect back to them to keep playing. That is why people are concerned.