The idea of a game as a service isn’t a new one, but it’s one that’s becoming increasingly prevalent. The concept is that you no longer buy a game as a static object on physical media, rather that you buy a contract to play a game, but the game itself remains the property of the publishers.
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I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
Maybe not in some cases.
But your friends games can be yours to try out with share play on the PS4
Thats the idea. Soon "buying" will just be renting at full price.
Yeah right, that's why some of the devs and publishers were trying to kill the game reselling by putting a lot of DRM or countermeasures but they still failed.
Even if games go digital things will remain the same only if gamers think outside the box . So let's say that Sony,Microsoft, and Nintendo decide offer a gaming service like PlayStation Plus or Xbox Live but no console. Meaning turn on the tv, sign up for xbox live or PlayStation Plus using say smartphone or gamepad as the controller to navigate say service. The games are on the cloud ;therefore, you are renting games right. Well semi-right because of external hard drives or usb sticks basically able to download any game that cost $50 or $60 plus tax to the external hard drive or usb stick. This way if the internet shuts down,you can still play your game burn it onto blu-ray disk (back up disk if the digital file gets corrupted) . Because is on disk be able to trade. Second Sony's share play and Valve's upcoming family share will pave the way to share games digitally without hurting game developers wallets. If EA origin refund program succeeds we gamers can see the competition to implement better or say same refund policies. That's the problem with articles like this one ,only show the small picture but not the picture as a whole