no its a valid article since this does happen. i'm just saying that the site just overexaggerates it and makes it worse than it seems.
i mean im in the same situation where my stuff wont work unless im on xbox live. that really isn't too big a problem for me. there are times when i have my 360 elsewhere where there isnt any internet and that kind of sucks. one instance is where i wanted to play the halo song for guitar hero 3 and it wasn't available unless i was online.
anyway yeah i never disagreed that it sucks. it does suck. what can ms do for the users? they can make it not be drm'd but then they'll suffer sales problems like the psp did. u know that elspa quote about 90% of ds users pirate? it's actually a lot closer in accuracy in meaning when u talk about the psp (not REALLY but it is pretty rampant)
ultimately (and i know i'm being anti consumer and pro business here), it's really the fault of consumers back in the 5.25" and 3.5" floppy days who would make endless copies of games. people want things that they haven't paid for.
i think the psn side, (iirc) they have 5 licenses per purchase so i guess if you broke 4 ps3s then u'd still be okay. but that means a possible 4 extra sales lost on digital distro.
anyway content rights and drm is altogether a very sticky issue not limited to the xbox 360
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no its a valid article since this does happen. i'm just saying that the site just overexaggerates it and makes it worse than it seems.
i mean im in the same situation where my stuff wont work unless im on xbox live. that really isn't too big a problem for me. there are times when i have my 360 elsewhere where there isnt any internet and that kind of sucks. one instance is where i wanted to play the halo song for guitar hero 3 and it wasn't available unless i was online.
anyway yeah i never disagreed that it sucks. it does suck. what can ms do for the users? they can make it not be drm'd but then they'll suffer sales problems like the psp did. u know that elspa quote about 90% of ds users pirate? it's actually a lot closer in accuracy in meaning when u talk about the psp (not REALLY but it is pretty rampant)
ultimately (and i know i'm being anti consumer and pro business here), it's really the fault of consumers back in the 5.25" and 3.5" floppy days who would make endless copies of games. people want things that they haven't paid for.
i think the psn side, (iirc) they have 5 licenses per purchase so i guess if you broke 4 ps3s then u'd still be okay. but that means a possible 4 extra sales lost on digital distro.
anyway content rights and drm is altogether a very sticky issue not limited to the xbox 360