Well it already has one advantage: friends. All my friends are on Xbox, none of them are PC gamers. Combined with the "family" sharing, it would've been enough to push me over the edge

I've never heard anything of the sort. Quite the opposite, i keep hearing PC players who want more and better controller and support, and more initiatives like Steam Big Picture, and I keep hearing console players who want a Steam-like model for digital distribution

Yup. i'd rather spend time gaming than figuring out where the hell i left the disc for my game, or trying to fix that one little scratch that keeps making it crash

Sure. I don't mind an online check, as i'm always online, and if in exchange for licensing i can get a shared library with 10 friends and games that don't require a fragile, losable disc to work, i don't mind it either.

Exactly. Console players need to get ready for another 10 years of the same. I was thinking of making the X1 my first console. Now i think i'll stick to PC

I fully agree. The circlejerk costed us the possibility to move the consoles commerical model forward. The X1 was a big gamble, but sadly MS did not have the nuts to withsand the shitstorm from the vocal minority.

I would play the sit out of an Alice Wake like the one you're describing

who plays game for fun anyway?

That's pretty much exactly it.

I only see two ways this can end: either Sony will add all the same DRM as Microsoft, or it will slowly but surely lose third party support. Publishers want to kill the used games market, and they are already rewarding Microsoft for helping them do that (for example, with the Titanfall exclusive)

If you think publishers are going to let Sony forego DRM and measures to curn the used game market, you are delirious. This are things that the publishers are pushing for, and Sony is either going to have to bend to their will, or go the way of Nintendo and slowly lose third party support until they become irrelevant.

Agreed. BC and WotLK were the highest points on the game. I feel they kind of lost direction after that

It's trendy to hate on FPS's and on top of that, the Battlefield fanbase is the whiningest (is that a word?) group of people you'll ever find.

came here to say the same thing

Now, they said they would never charge for map packs, and they haven't. BF3 has expansion packs, that add new game modes and other content on top of maps, and which have been part of Battlefield since BF1942.

Reasons to stick to SC4 keep piling up...

They used it in Need For Speed Most Wanted and it is simply stunning... i've crashed more than a few times because i got caught up looking at the pretty graphics XD

oh man, you just made imagine a Mass Effect game in Frostbite 2... that would be awesome.

huh? Bf3 came out late 2011, and most predictions put BF4 no earlier than early 2014, so hardly "yearly" releases

Teamspeak + squad sync plugin = win