Comments on: David Jaffe: Don’t Buy Xbox One If Its Used Game DRM Offends You

By: RCS1986

RCS1986 — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 10:35:00 +0000

Not sure if this has been floated by anyone, but why not give the game developers a cut of the used-game sales? Say if Gamestop sold you a used copy of Gears of War for $20, say 20% gets paid from them back to the developer. The customer gets the used game, Gamestop makes money, and the developer gets a little piece of the action. Everyone’s a winner.

By: Sam Norte

Sam Norte — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 03:49:00 +0000

Dumb way to look at it.

By: ernicegilbert

ernicegilbert — Fri, 31 May 2013 01:19:00 +0000

Good point, Ghost! The advent of social media, youtube, twitter etc has turned everyone into publishing machines. And with itunes, Amazon Music and Google Play, amongst others at your disposal, who needs these big, money-sucking labels! Great point.

By: Ghost250

Ghost250 — Fri, 31 May 2013 00:51:00 +0000

the music industry isn’t tanking, its the major labels that are tanking. you don’t need a major to become the next big artist in music. thats why you see all these artists going independent.

By: Jacob Blackburn

Jacob Blackburn — Thu, 30 May 2013 12:47:00 +0000

The music industry is tanking on the “don’t like it, then don’t buy it” mentality….. People aren’t buying overpriced music in droves like they have in the past. Companies like MS want to make money. If consumers don’t feel they are getting “value” aka features they like then don’t buy. Plain and simple. I for one will stick with my 360 until they stop supporting it. Right now I don’t feel the benefits out way the negatives and that is before even factoring in the fact that we are paying $60 a year for Xbox Live and the cost of the unit will be close to $600 and you stil only get one controller. Video games are ceasing to be a fun past time…. at least for me and I’ve been a gamer my whole life. Greed will knock the industry back. It is already starting with 99 Cent and Free Tablet games. The younger generation is the tablet generation. As consoles become PCs you’ll see a divide in game culture. There will always be the hardcore ones….. but I think the money will be in the softcore casual gamers over the next 20 years.

By: VA1N

VA1N — Thu, 30 May 2013 12:35:00 +0000

The console market may shrivel up but the PC market will be alive. Indie devs can release content on PCs without archaic restrictions in place by Microsoft or whoever the next flavor of the week console will be down the road. People complain about the price of upgrading a PC but with consoles gone (if that ever happens) I’m sure the fact of buying a PC for gaming will even out to become more streamlined and available for all to us.

I doubt this will happen, but it’s one scenario.

By: VA1N

VA1N — Thu, 30 May 2013 12:29:00 +0000

I really wish that people would put their money where their mouth is and not buy the Xbone because of these horrible restrictions, but I know how it will go. Some amazing game will be announced and everyone will forget about the restrictions and bow to their overlord masters and just take it and say thank you in the end.

By: Tyson Sheaves

Tyson Sheaves — Thu, 30 May 2013 05:38:00 +0000

So when i resell my Gmc truck.. should gmc expect a check also..I think not .. Its greed that drives these motives and its only the consumers that can end such poor- selfish business practices. Stir up enough criticism and the big M will abandon this dead end idea.

By: Wolf1888

Wolf1888 — Thu, 30 May 2013 01:29:00 +0000

Nicely put!

By: surgeterrix

surgeterrix — Thu, 30 May 2013 01:14:00 +0000

The government doesn’t care what you say unless you vote.

In capitalism, you vote with your dollar.

No one is saying stop watching movies, or stop gaming, one or even two consoles are not the end all be all of gaming, or that if a console by an industry titan flopped it’d be the end of gaming. If that were the case, the industry would have been over when the Atari, Neo Geo, Sega, Nintendo, introduced consoles or new gaming hardware that flopped.

By: Lux

Lux — Thu, 30 May 2013 00:48:00 +0000

It does offend me and this plus the tv watching achievements plus them watching me all the time, Im not going to buy one.

By: ernicegilbert

ernicegilbert — Wed, 29 May 2013 23:50:00 +0000

I can, however, burn a copy of that song I purchased and give it to whomever I please.

By: logic_smith

logic_smith — Wed, 29 May 2013 23:41:00 +0000

Try reselling your iTunes purchases.

By: boniek

boniek — Wed, 29 May 2013 21:02:00 +0000

I agree but IP laws don’t agree with both of us. What we think is directly in opposition to IP law.

By: NightGoat

NightGoat — Wed, 29 May 2013 18:20:00 +0000

Jaffe has a naive, simplistic view on economics in general. In his world there is no such thing as corporate bullying, and consumers have all the power. It just doesn’t always work that way. It’s complex. We don’t have the option of buying an XBone without the DRM junk. If we don’t buy it, that doesn’t send the specific signal we want sent. Maybe that tells MS that we don’t want Halo. Maybe it tells them we don’t want consoles in general. His attitude is “don’t like one thing? don’t get the whole package!” which is great, but it’s sort of like a bill in congress. You are going to be waiting your whole life if you want to see a clean bill with everything you want. No, we have to deal with decent bills full of junk amendments, earmarks, little corporate giveaways here and there. You can’t just say “don’t vote for it!” like the Tea Party, because then nothing gets done.

It also reminds me of cable TV. Fox News offends me as a consumer. But I’m not gonna throw away HBO and Comedy Central and all the channels I like because of the one bad apple. I’d love to send them the signal that I don’t like it. But just telling me to either buy it or don’t, and THAT’S how you protest is bullshit. There are many ways to voice your concerns, Jaffe shouldn’t be trying to stifle the debate with such black and white thinking that he knows won’t pan out. The power lies in these giant corporations to basically do what they want, and steamroll choice and competition. Consumers can put up a fight, and sometimes win battles, but they don’t have the power to stop the train in many cases. If only the world were perfectly simple.