well said bubbles

The only drm I like is steam and that's because it enhances the experience. That said, I think most people who pirate, usually we're never going to purchase the item in question.

You can still share a game between 2 consoles on PS4. There are, however, draw backs, your main console will become your secondary console so you will be unable to play your games offline, play remotely from vita or set things to download from your phone while you're away. Depending on how you game these things may or may not matter.

As for DRM, I've never been a fan, even on PC, there are tonnes of better ways to deal with this situation and countless studies have shown Piracy has in fact increased sales of movies and games and spread word of mouth of TV shows. The people pirating are people who would never have been able to afford the product in the first place (as MEsoJD pointed out) because they barely make enough to get by as is, but in turn they're working as free advertisements for such things when they're friends are over or they're discussing them "at the watercooler".

DRM has never worked, hackers always find a way, the one thing that has worked so far is having major components of a game requiring you to log in to the games servers, Sim City 5 was a testament to that I believe, unfortuntaly the game was pretty crappy (IMO) and in the end it was eventually hacked with an offline mode enabled. But it did leave people who pirated the game without a major feature of the game. There are other games like this but that was the first one that came to mind. Unfortunately it makes games like this a disaster for payign customers when servers drop or their ISP acts up. So there needs to be a better solution found, or none at all, publishers are trying too hard to tell gamers how, where and when they should play their games, and its only causing big problems for the consumer.

Games like Spore, without even really trying, are not nearly as good as they should be for pirateers (can that be a word? Like a Pirate-Pioneer?) because a major aspect of that game was the community created content, if you pirated the game you'd have to spend a few hours building up your creature database or just be happy with the ones that come with the game. I think thats a win-win situation for authentic owners and pirates. I know 3-4 people back in the day who were unsure if their PC/netbooks/laptops could run it but were a fan of Maxis games, so they pirated it, and after playing it for a week or so they ended up buying it so they could experience it as it was meant to be with tonnes of user created content.

My stance on DRM in video games may come from how I was raised on games. Back in the cartridge era, and as a young child with no means of income of our own, console and game swapping was a very common thing, there was very little arguing over who had the better games or consoles, the arguing was more "When are you gonna let me have that game?!" and "Why haven't you given me back my sega yet?! I've played yr SNES to DEATH! I WANT TO PLAY MY COPY OF Mortal Kombat 2 AGAIN! *hissy fit*" at which point the boys mother would kindly ask me to leave for "squabbling" :) Ah, deities, Bless the Irish Mothers.

Take a look at GoG.com and tell me a non DRM service where your not screwing over the customer can't work.

So do I, but digital is digital. The clue is in the acronym.

If anyone ever tried to apply DRM to disc-based games... oh wait, they did.

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Let me be clear. This is sarcasm

I'm surprised it's still the old site. I thought he said starting today?

Insert the Ferris Bueller end scene... "You're still here? It's over.."

Never say die