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Originally Posted by GrizzleBoy 
America literally needs to stop bringing down the average global internet speed already lol.
Except for the part of the article where they LITERALLY state that if people still want physical copies, they will continue making physical copies.
But no, you're probably right.
They're probably just going to employ a whole load of people to one day just literally deny everyone access to their games. There will be this big "dont let anyone play games" button and it will be like a ceremony. They'll be wearing shaman costumes and dancing around a fire and everything, praising the "dont let people play games" god.
Their view is that once they dont let anyone play games on their games service anymore, that will make their business even more prestigious and Origin will get even better. The fact that noone will be able to play games means that Origin will be even more successful.
It isn't that purely digital media companies are an obvious inevitability or anything, EA just wants to stop everyone playing games by removing access to them because they're digital. Because that's obviously how you get to be successful.
America literally needs to stop bringing down the average global internet speed already lol.
Except for the part of the article where they LITERALLY state that if people still want physical copies, they will continue making physical copies.
But no, you're probably right.
They're probably just going to employ a whole load of people to one day just literally deny everyone access to their games. There will be this big "dont let anyone play games" button and it will be like a ceremony. They'll be wearing shaman costumes and dancing around a fire and everything, praising the "dont let people play games" god.
Their view is that once they dont let anyone play games on their games service anymore, that will make their business even more prestigious and Origin will get even better. The fact that noone will be able to play games means that Origin will be even more successful.
It isn't that purely digital media companies are an obvious inevitability or anything, EA just wants to stop everyone playing games by removing access to them because they're digital. Because that's obviously how you get to be successful.
No, EA wants CONTROL, like any other corporation. More control means they can dictate what you buy. Take your condescending BS somewhere else.
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Originally Posted by OwnedINC
They're as real as everything else in this world.
They're as real as everything else in this world.
They might be real, but you don't own it, they do. That's why I dislike dealing with digital downloads from people like EA. I can't trust them like I can trust Steam. Piss them off and they can just deny you service; no one will or can stop them because you don't own the software, they do. And even if you don't piss them off, they might opt to shut down their online services so you buy the newer game instead. Not to mention the crippling DRM.
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Originally Posted by Onex
Hmm not surprised though, but I think EA will continue to shoot its own foot out and gnaw and hack at it with a chainsaw. Not because its only EA because of the infrastructure. Cloud,Digital download games, and distribution sounds good in a perfect world. But we dont live in one. Main reasons would be some parts of the world dont have such stable connection to the hosted server or even have stable internet access, while some (North America mainly) have the big dogs ripping everyone off at every waking moment. I'm talking about internet caps, crazy monthly fees, throttling, and other such things will continue to make cloud and digital distribution a harder thing to achieve. Especially since you gotta download a few gbs for games, that wont leave you much if you're on a bare minimum of a internet plan. Good Job EA great plan will certainly make more profits.
Hmm not surprised though, but I think EA will continue to shoot its own foot out and gnaw and hack at it with a chainsaw. Not because its only EA because of the infrastructure. Cloud,Digital download games, and distribution sounds good in a perfect world. But we dont live in one. Main reasons would be some parts of the world dont have such stable connection to the hosted server or even have stable internet access, while some (North America mainly) have the big dogs ripping everyone off at every waking moment. I'm talking about internet caps, crazy monthly fees, throttling, and other such things will continue to make cloud and digital distribution a harder thing to achieve. Especially since you gotta download a few gbs for games, that wont leave you much if you're on a bare minimum of a internet plan. Good Job EA great plan will certainly make more profits.
You summed it up perfectly. We don't live in a perfect world. It's similar to how Communism is the best form of government in a perfect world... but we don't live in a perfect world and as can be observed Communism is awful because of it.
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Originally Posted by Thingamajig
Try playing a game on Steam when you lose net access. I dare you.
It aint gunna happen. Regardless if it's a single player title or not. Sure, you could set it to offline mode, but that only works while you have an active internet connection. So, really, offline mode is pretty useless in those situations where you suddenly lose net access.
I remember once, taking my rig around a friends (whome has no net access) and finding this out the hard way. My intention was to show off the system and play a few single player games tied a steam account.......no dice.
This is what i hate about DD. I have less control of the things i've legitimately purchased and become far more reliant on something that can (and will) inevitably fail me - internet access. And you can bet it'll happen when you least want it to. It has me, many times. To top it all off, all this additional crap comes at the same kind of price as what a hard copy would cost you (in most cases) as DD titles are still overpriced. Then you've got to consider monthly bandwidth limits, sudden data loss from hardware/software failure(Which will require you to download it all again, unless you made backups).
I hate DD, and i've never been comfortable with the idea. When you really weigh up the pro's and cons of Digital Distribution over Hard copies, i find a hard copy wins everytime. More for my money and less of the headache. Unless they force you to tie the game to Steam or Origin, which is becoming the norm (Still, you get a manual, case and whatever else is bundled with it where'as a DD title won't give you that).
At least it'll offer reading material if your net fails...amirite?
Try playing a game on Steam when you lose net access. I dare you.
It aint gunna happen. Regardless if it's a single player title or not. Sure, you could set it to offline mode, but that only works while you have an active internet connection. So, really, offline mode is pretty useless in those situations where you suddenly lose net access.
I remember once, taking my rig around a friends (whome has no net access) and finding this out the hard way. My intention was to show off the system and play a few single player games tied a steam account.......no dice.
This is what i hate about DD. I have less control of the things i've legitimately purchased and become far more reliant on something that can (and will) inevitably fail me - internet access. And you can bet it'll happen when you least want it to. It has me, many times. To top it all off, all this additional crap comes at the same kind of price as what a hard copy would cost you (in most cases) as DD titles are still overpriced. Then you've got to consider monthly bandwidth limits, sudden data loss from hardware/software failure(Which will require you to download it all again, unless you made backups).
I hate DD, and i've never been comfortable with the idea. When you really weigh up the pro's and cons of Digital Distribution over Hard copies, i find a hard copy wins everytime. More for my money and less of the headache. Unless they force you to tie the game to Steam or Origin, which is becoming the norm (Still, you get a manual, case and whatever else is bundled with it where'as a DD title won't give you that).
At least it'll offer reading material if your net fails...amirite?
Exactly. The less control, the better, as far as the people making the money are thinking. Play on their terms or don't play at all. Consumer control has been deteriorating over the years and businesses continue to disrespect their customers, because customers can't do anything about it other than stop buying from that business. It's not even just limited to video games... if businesses could just stop being so cut throat all the time maybe EVERYONE could get along a little better. But no, money > people's wellbeing, as always...
Edited by vikingsteve - 7/4/12 at 1:24pm
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