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Topic	Discless XBOX
dancer62 12/07/18 5:50:57 PM #9:	Dikitain posted... dancer62 posted... Anything that gives a single vendor a monopoly is bad. If the only way to get games is from XBL/PSN at whatever price they want to charge and whatever availability and restrictions they want? Bad. Amazon/Ebay/GameStop/BestBuy/pawnshops/mom&pop stores, Good. It is not really a black and white thing like that. For example, on Steam you can buy games from their marketplace, but you can also buy them from 3rd parties at varying prices (including Amazon/Ebay/BestBuy/etc.) and then just input the code to have the game added to your library. It has been a pretty common practice for the last decade, even on digital games from PSN and XBox Marketplace. Half of my Steam library was not even bought on Steam. Apples vs. Oranges. It totally is a black and white thing. Think of Sony unexpectedly discontinuing PSMobile and making the (purchased, from PSN) PSM libraries useless. They offered a limited time code to "activate" PSM games, but they can't be transferred, backed up, etc, and any purchased game you bought that you didn't "activate" within the time limit is useless. Steam: how many console games are available through Steam? Consoles have proprietary BIOS and only play games for that console with DRM, while computers from different manufacturers will play DOS, Windoze, etc. computer games. I have 3DS games bought through Humble Bundle, but the code is still for the Nintendo Store, not an independent vendor.I Imagine a digital future with (for example) SCEA unilaterally deciding what games you can play, for how much, and deactivating games you have bought when THEY decide they are obsolete or no longer profitable to maintain a storefront for. --- If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less <cite>dancer62 posted [p:913734192] in Discless X... [t:77277880]...</cite> <quote><cite>Dikitain posted...</cite> <quote><cite>dancer62 posted...</cite> <quote>Anything that gives a single vendor a monopoly is bad. If the only way to get games is from XBL/PSN at whatever price they want to charge and whatever availability and restrictions they want? Bad. Amazon/Ebay/GameStop/BestBuy/pawnshops/mom&pop stores, Good.</quote> It is not really a black and white thing like that. For example, on Steam you can buy games from their marketplace, but you can also buy them from 3rd parties at varying prices (including Amazon/Ebay/BestBuy/etc.) and then just input the code to have the game added to your library. It has been a pretty common practice for the last decade, even on digital games from PSN and XBox Marketplace. Half of my Steam library was not even bought on Steam.</quote> Apples vs. Oranges. It totally is a black and white thing. Think of Sony unexpectedly discontinuing PSMobile and making the (purchased, from PSN) PSM libraries useless. They offered a limited time code to "activate" PSM games, but they can't be transferred, backed up, etc, and any purchased game you bought that you didn't "activate" within the time limit is useless. Steam: how many console games are available through Steam? Consoles have proprietary BIOS and only play games for that console with DRM, while computers from different manufacturers will play DOS, Windoze, etc. computer games. I have 3DS games bought through Humble Bundle, but the code is still for the Nintendo Store, not an independent vendor.I Imagine a digital future with (for example) SCEA unilaterally deciding what games you can play, for how much, and deactivating games you have bought when THEY decide they are obsolete or no longer profitable to maintain a storefront for. --- If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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