I'm sorry, I simply can't believe they would enable groups of remotely located friends to essentially become pseudo-pirates and split the cost of games 10 ways at the same time they're trying to severely limit the secondhand market. It's simply too schizophrenic and terrible business.

Yes, it was. Anyone who believes that Microsoft was enabling the creation of psuedo-pirate friend groups who could split the cost of new games ten ways while simultaneously trying to squash used game sales is smoking Clorox.

Great, if players see her glitching, they're gonna pull the plug and she'll die. You know, because glitches can't leave the game.

Yo yo yo yo.

At least she didn't call it a Nintendo.

But technology and gaming is business. Multi-billions of dollars worth. The highest paid CEO in the US is head of a gaming company.

You mean it wouldn't allow me to set up an organized network of pseudo-pirates so we could split the cost of games ten ways while simultaneously destroying the evil secondhand games market that kills developers!

...not only cut the standard work day to eight hours, but also doubled their worker’s pay in the process...

Pre-orders speak pretty loud and clear. People put their money on the table. I think it was just those numbers that made them think.

Before Steam, I don't even remember the last PC game I had played.

It seems like a lot of fans of the "family share" had grand plans to split the cost of games with buddies from all over the nation/world...and then those same people tell me how bad used game sales are for the industry.

I'm going to sell a kidney on Craigslist and get all three this year!

A little too ironic.

Online requirements will likely be game depended and denoted on the box.

I couldn't agree more. I left PC gaming intentionally (before the days of Steam) because of how obnoxious DRM was getting. The last thing I want is for consoles to become a weak imitation of that.

No way I'd pay 30-40 a month to play old games. I think very few people have the available free time to justify that kind of expense, especially since the average gamer is in their 30s with a full time job and often a family.

I disagree. It's not the informations, per se, but the use of it. Spam of any type, electronic or physical, should absolutely require my consent.

The first two sentences are perfect.

Not to mention they are releasing a console that will automatically update, so this should put the fear in people about an nearly-always-connected system that doesn't need your nod of approval to install software.

I do the same, and this is why I'm wary of consoles that will do it for me. Let the suckers beta test the updates. I'll join you in a month.