All to trap people in their digital ecosystem. They could have easily offered an optional optical drive on their next system.
MS sucks.
Xbox One’s Catastrophic DRM Is The Reason It Can Now Offer Disc-To-Digital
Submitted 4 weeks ago by baatliwala@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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rafoix@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is there any proof that their next console isn’t going to have an optical drive?
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t think so, but I think pessimism has merged with realism. Perhaps we all just agree that for 2026 tech companies, whatever the question is, the correct answer will be whatever’s the worst decision for the public.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Is there any reason why you or anyone would give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt?
Expect the worst from MS and you’ll never be disappointed.
GMac@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
So microslop are using their drm to control the digital rights people are permitted to have over the discs they bought and paid for.
This still kills the secondhand games market, it still pushes everyone into a digtial only future that is controlled by the corporations.
How is this being written as some sort of success story?
I dont object to a digital future; my music and video discs have all been copied to digital files but those are my files, my legal right to create backups of my property and to use those backups on whatever damn device i choose to.
A digital future where the consumer has no control over their content is not something to be celebrated, even if it sweeps up a few old discs aling rhe way. Without microslops drm, people could simply copy their disc contents and “have digital”…
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because this is still somehow better than what Sony is doing, as they have no plan for backward compatibility with your disc games. I agree that people portraying this as a success story are very shortsighted.