@matoyak: It will be impossible for every game to implement a fee, only if it has multiplayer. I imagine it will be like its now at worst an online pass fee.
My console that I stream the Daily Show on does not.
I constantly deal with weird graphics issues, driver updates, game crashes, keyboard rebinds. I'd gladly pay a bit more for convenience.
Used games don't affect me at all, but it used to. I got into gaming because I was a poor kid who bought used and traded my carts to get better ones. That's a legacy I don't want to put behind a paywall or connectivity requirement.
Sounds like the "used game fee" is not borne by the users anyway, it's between the retailers and publishers. The entire system of account verification is established to ensure that once someone else starts using a license key, you can't use it anymore.
It doesn't need to be online, unless you want to actually stream the Daily Show to it.
Yeah, it's pretty shady that you can easily buy games on Steam that your system is just too new to play or totally incompatible with. Some games just won't play on ATI hardware (primarily Xbox era games with a PC version, some functions were written for Nvidia cards specifically), others won't play on anything new because they're GLIDE based. Constantly testing every configuration and so forth would certainly be an impossible mission but with no recourse for "returning" the game, it kind of sucks.
I'm another one that hasn't bought a used game in several years. Buying used shorts the developers, it is anti-developer. The used game market is also predatory towards users who buy and sell in that market where the prices are basically set by a monopolist (Gamestop). No used games means that new games have to drop in price faster, because that price drop is how you get penetration into the wider customer base. The availability of used games props up the price of new games, and the stickiness of new game prices is allowing users to be boned by Gamestop selling you the same title for 5 bucks less than a NIB one (and 10 dollars more than Amazon).
I don't know, I'm not feeling good about the entire state of gaming right now, maybe in part because there's not enough information. I feel like everyone is telling half the truth (or less).
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