Let's say you tell a company that you want X, and the company gives you Y instead. Let's say that Y is some brand new thing that hasn't been done before and, therefore, you have no experience with such a feature. You are irritated that they didn't give you X, but when the product hits store shelves you decide to…

Retracted.

The reason they need to clarify that it can only be loaned once is because I don't think this policy is ONLY for physical games. I think you can probably give away your digital copy of a game (like how you can give games as a gift on Steam). They are saying that you can't give the same game as a gift to all your…

Well, from my perspective, the most important thing is game preservation. As long as we have the game data installed on our local hardware, then we still have the means to copy that data over to a PC harddrive and preserve to play it with an emulator later.

Ok, so hypothetically if those were your only 2 options, you'd either stop playing games altogether, or pirate everything. Fine, that's a valid answer. In that case, from your perspective, the most important question is: are there enough people who feel the way you do to actually stop this from happening? Possibly…

Take a look at this graph, if you get a chance: http://www.1up.com/news/90s-game-…

Bingo.

GOG restricts you more than a physical copy precisely because you can't resell it. The crux of your problem with MS is that you won't be able to sell your games to Gamestop anymore right? You can't do that with GOG either.

How is that different from what Microsoft is planning to do? The only difference is that in addition to buying and downloading the game, you also have the option to later sell your digital copy if you so choose. So it's GOG's business model with an extra option to sell your copy later. It's the same thing they do…

When you buy on GOG, you can't resell it. Aren't you violating your own principles by using that service? Why is it ok for GOG to restrict you like that, but not Microsoft? Is it simply the price? If you could get new console games for $10, then you wouldn't mind not being able to resell them, perhaps?

Well, I don't have to convince you of anything. All you need to do is look around. Do you think Steam is a good thing? Do you think iOS/Android games are a good thing? If the answer is yes, then you think treating games as a service is fine. If, however, you think such things are evil conspiracies because you…

You know, AAA console games are really the last holdout. Steam has basically taken over the PC market, and mobile games were always digitally distributed. The current gen consoles have already been weaning people onto digital distribution for a while now. I fully expect that in this coming generation digital…

You want games to be a commodity because it suits you. Like it or not, all media is headed towards being a service. People get their books digitally and read them on a Kindle, people get their music digitally and listen to it on their MP3 players, people stream movies and TV shows with services like netflix, amazon,…

Your farm analogy isn't really the same thing though. Think about it like this: