Nimzabaat, just stop. Before this petition I met some of the people in favor of former policies being reinstated for Xbox One. When we talked about other stuff their reasoning was way off, it was some of the most fallacious logic I've ever heard with sprinkes of truth here and there to keep it afloat. That doesn't feel good, does it? I generalized and insulted you. That's called elitism, heck this is a pitch perfect example; you think you're above us all because you think you "get it" due to some factor in your life that makes you better than us when all it really does is give you a different perspective (versus say a VERY GOOD higher education or lots of experience in the business which does give you leverage). You have evidence to back up from this company except you ignore it's being talked about in a different environment with better implementation and it's always popular to say every person on the planet except your "crowd" is sheep and uneducated and jumping on a bandwagon and what not. People are far more complex than we give them credit for; even those we think are stupid are actually quite smart in certain matters. You are no better than the rest of us so frankly you don't get it. Neither do any of us really but those with extensive study, lots of reliable stats and economic models, and the ability to admit they can be wrong do and they predicted doom and gloom for this right before it became popular for the "mainstream gamers" to do it.Nimzabaat said:
I'm really tempted to go into a long essay about my two years of Computer Science study, the 3 or 4 friends I know well enough that they are willing to go extensively into how their Business studies with me go if I ask and what really is pro-consumer, the economic models created just to see how this would have turned out, etc. You're right that Steam is looking how to do this positively but that's just it. Valve knows what they're doing; Microsoft does not and it shows.
And no it's well known having a physical property is much less restrictive. It's the same concept applied to fiat money. You'd have to change the entire world economic system to be able to argue on the restrictions of a physical product which is also worth more due to its use of material resources (digital is just a download and you're done assuming few updates and no "always online" or cloud gaming). Until Internet across the globe is near-perfect reliable (far from it) and accessible to a high majority of people on the planet (like 95%) you can't argue how digital is so instantaneous and can be sent to friends without the "hassle" of travel. Even then it's much easier for digital distribution services including Good Guy Steam to restrict you on your digital products. Did you not hear those true stories about people losing 200 games from their digital account because they violated this minor term of service or were suspected of something? It's gotten better since those times obviously but those stories can easily be repeated. There are so many factors including economic concerns in shared digital distribution with family and friends it's not worth explaining.
If you can't agree, at least agree to disagree and stop acting like we're all morons. You're on the Escapist. You're not talking with some bro with a 1.0 GPA who only has one console, plays FIFA, and heard from his uninformed/mistaken "nerd" friend something about him not being able to play FIFA because Microsoft ruined it for everybody and then never went into detail about what he meant. We all play games, many of us on these forum I've noticed are more reasonable than other forums, etc. Give us some slack.
*The above is a stereotype to prove my point. If you have 1 of the 2 following things going for you: a high GPA and/or play FIFA and/or are well informed or reasonable disregard it.
