Wow, thats some crazy bank you deal with if they did all what i said earlier. Once i take money OUT of the Bank, the Bank doesn’t follow that money around. Once i spend the money ON something, the Bank can’t take it back. The bank is a service to store/retrieve money, not to tell me what to do with it. I’d certainly…

So first one of MS’s reps pisses everybody off by saying “If your thinking about Backwards Compatibility, you’re thinking backwards”

Sony boasts their crappy PSNow that you can play older games with...

After many turnarounds from the terrible idea that once was XBO, MS comes out with BC that not only works pretty well,…

Chrono Trigger (PS1 ver) is already on the PSN store for PS3/PSP/Vita (all emulation, not HW BC)... simply porting the emulator over to PS4 should be simple if the PSP can handle the emulation. If they redid the licensing for multiple platforms already... whats one more?

“And yet they are still being sold on eBay and in vintage game stores”

They can sell them in digital formats too (like PSOne/PS2 Classics, Xbox 360 BC, Virtual Console), They make money this way so... seems like a win win?

Without DRM: Losing “Sales” from people who wouldn’t give them money in the 1st place (pirates)

With 3rd party DRM: Losing actual real sales from people who dont buy games with 3rd party DRM, people who try and buy, or future sales from already paying customers that are negatively effected by your DRM (plus money on…

Its more like the Bank would come into your home and make sure you aren’t doing anything illegal constantly after the transaction was done, and then sometimes they mess up and take your money out of your wallet (or take away something you just bought) until their servers are back up, or make your car slow, or tell you…

That isn’t the definition of censorship. There is no need for a government involvement for something to be censored. Nintendo of America altered things they considered to be offensive from Atlus / NCL’s original version of the game. That is one of the many forms of censorship, and Nintendo is famous for censoring…

They aren’t “exclusively on GOG” because having your game on multiple platforms at the same time is beneficial for an indie, and is COMPLETELY irrelevant to the topic. The point is they have a DRM-free version available at launch most of the time, either on GOG, HB, or other digital sites/platform dont use any extra…

Yeah, it only effects paying customers. Which is the whole argument. Pirates don’t get effected because they rip that crap out, and have a superior product :/

It seems your entire argument relies on some weird myth that a games first week is where most of its sales comes from. As if being sold on several digital platforms till the end of time doesn’t matter, only the first week of sales matter? What about most of the people that dont buy a game until a sale? Their money…

Spoken by someone who has never got bit by bad/faulty DRM apparently

If i played it on a friends account/house, borrowed/rented if it was a physical game, the dev doesn’t get money either. Is that theft too?

Oh yeah, guy who ripped off a game idea from another company is a great source of information. Its funny his game that people didn’t want was pirated “so bad”, yet other really GREAT indie games have DRM free games all over and seem to have no problem with sales?

Its a scapegoat for people who don’t want to admit their…

Because sharing a file with peers is EXACTLY the same as stealing a car. /s

Not talking about “stealing”, just not buying. I was really interested in RIME, but with the DRM crap I’ll be waiting until wayyy after this extra DRM is removed, and maybe getting it on a cheap HB/steam sale, if ever. Until then, they lost a sale from me

Again is this really what they think will happen? Someone will want to play a game for free, but find out they can’t, so they will just go PAY for it? Thats quite the fantasy. Most pirates have an ocean of games to play, one game isn’t going to really make a difference. Not to mention a large portion that simply can’t…

I consider Steamworks a part of Steam, and not an extra/intrusive 3rd party DRM. Though I can’t even find any records of games using it to validate that devs are using the DRM portion.

Guess I should of specified:

Correction: The developers who are using DRM are few and far between these days. Most developers stopped doing it altogether because of all the problems and customer relation nightmare for PAYING customers not being able to play their paid for products, at least one instance of a dev even giving up and releasing the…