Comment on End of an era?
renrenPDX@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Ahhh, remember this PS4 promo video (YouTube for sharing physical games vs Xbox)? Pepperidge Farm does.
Little did the Luddites who applauded this realise that they were signing their own fate.
Xbox One’s digital plans were amazing. Luddites and Sony fanboys just couldn’t understand that an all digital future was inevitable, and actively fought against the only company that was bringing the benefits of physical copies to digital.
You are ignoring the fact that these plans were made over a decade ago. You really expect MS to keep their promise when after watching Sony do this?
What exactly is your point?
Microsoft were doing their “physical as digital” plan which was literally the best digital-only system ever devised, and they were forced to ditch it by people who were too dumb to see the industry trends at the time, and by people who hate Microsoft/xbox.
Now no one gets that amazing “digital only” system.
I’ll try to make it clearer for you.
Microsoft made a plan. Great. Anybody can ‘make’ a plan and that plan could sound amazing to some people.
You are nostalgizing the ideal parts of their plan without having to see it play out. How would sharing have really worked? Would the disc be tied to your account forever? Would your friend be able to install from it?
And for sake of argument let’s say Microsoft executed on this best plan ever. Fast forward 10 years and they are looking for more profits somewhere. What’s stopping them from changing the terms of their plan? Pretty sure the TOS you click OK to when installing the game says it lets them alter things as they fit.
Ydna@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Shots were fired via that ad.