I really liked the Giantbomb game of the year 2012 skit "Collectshun".. Giantbomb will never be the same without Ryan... and his alter-ego "Bryan" Davis.
I'm completely stunned- my condolences to Ryan's family and the entire Giantbomb crew. This is almost impossible to believe. 34 is far too young and Ryan was always full of life. I love all of Ryan's content on Giantbomb- just can't believe this. Rest in peace...
Alex, good job on this piece. Very well written. I think someone mentioned on one of the last Bombcasts that essentially Sony chose to take a "passive" approach to the DRM stuff and let is resolve itself as we move away from discs. I think that is exactly right and I didn't look at it that way before. Microsoft was getting ahead of itself with this stuff knowing where we'll eventually be when the disc goes away, but it was a mistake. Once consoles ship without an optical drive, then the market will be ready. Can't say their ideas are bad, just ill-timed and probably more convoluted than they needed to be. In the end I'm happy MS decided to bite the bullet and revert back to the current model for now- and that's coming from someone who was kind of neutral on their original policies from the start.
well, I was never all that up in arms about their crazy DRM and related policies since I didn't see it affecting me all that much, but this is pretty good news particularly about the online requirement. I didn't think MS was ever going to pull a 180 on all this stuff. I kind of see it as building a framework for the future (the disc-less future) but hey, we aren't there yet so guess the consumer has spoken. The biggest downside for me is realizing that MS could be that out of touch with their customers. I think they are learning a tough lesson over all of this. So long as they learn- of course.
I'm ok with this system so far except one thing- is it true we have to install our games to play them? That bothers me a lot. Sure, they are probably thinking this is best for performance since the optical drive isn't ultra fast and with Blu-ray there's a crap load of data to access. (Multiple tens of gigabytes). But still... I think that should be a choice. If you want to reduce load times install the game. If you are fine loading off the disc then don't install. At least you don't have to worry about filling the 500 gig hard drive which you could easily do with just 10-20 retail games (assuming the games use most the capacity of the discs).
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