Essentially they said you can. If I remember right, there were slides that said 'play used games, sell used games, buy used games'. Something like that. Implying that Sony will impose no restrictions. Your last question could be the kicker here. THEY don't support or impose any sort of DRM. Whether they leave it up to pubs and devs to decide for themselves.... That seems unclear as of now.
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See, I saw the whole Xbox E3 thing but did not see the Sony PS4 one(just what I read here and engadget/Weave). I'm going to try to find a stream of it to see what I missed.
Everyone could be hyping up the PS4 because of what they said but, if all the devs have their way, there wont be any used games. This still falls in my guidlines, Digital downloads is one thing but, physical media is a whole different thing.
The problem with that is that new features they have such as your ten family members playing any shared game in your library and no disc required are kind of nice little extras. But the 24 hour restriction blows. So how about a logical way to address both issues?:
- When a disc is in the console, the system will NOT need to phone home every 24 hours. DRM is unlocked for that game. They have proven with the Xbox 360 that they can identify the disc and then stop it from spinning, and they can have the same hardware/software checks as on the 360 to ensure the game disc itself is legit. Since there can only be one disc for each game, this also solves the problem of lending games to friends, or even rentals via GameFly.
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They should make it, Physical disk rules. I wonder how they are going to do this, will each disc have a serial number of some type ?
If so, this is the way it should work, at least in my eyes...
1. Install to your system, use with out the disk. If the disk is used on another system (accept on your family list), it disables it from your system till you put the game disc back in.
2. No 24 hour checks, if you are online, play the game off your drive(because it can check), IF you are off line, you need the disc to play the game.
3. Make GameStop and other large used game sellers pay a small fee for each used game sold, they aready rip people off on used games, they should take a small $2-5 hit on their sales (under 30 days after release, $5, under 45 days, $4, etc).
4. Digital sales should stay the exact way they are now, accept family use (same subnet/network), Once you buy a digital game you own it, it's not transferable in anyway.
I think this model would make everyone happy. You can sell your game to someone you dont know or even on ebay, you just lose your rights as soon as someone puts in their drive. When this market changes, where there is not discs in every store, then this drm thing will work as MS wants it to but, as of now it cant work as it's doing more damage than it is helping....and MS is digging a big hole that they need to find a way out to make gamers happy.
After all, gamers are the people who will by the system (at least most of them) and they are the people you want to make happy here..