It needed a market analyst to point this out?

Phil Harrison February 2007: "Rumble I think was the last generation feature; it’s not the next-generation feature."

Phil Spenser June 2013: "Ownership I think was the last generation feature; it’s not the next-generation feature."

@johnlyw It's taught us that over a million people will still buy a DRMd to death product :/

They could have simply said "we're not implementing an always online console" and stopped all this negative news.

@Evanyell @GoingPostal13 I'm all for that - it's why I like fighters.

Awesome - I for one am looking forward to the new core. There's definitely not enough pink and kittens in gaming at the moment :>

@TitanPolaris Just don't buy the games in the first place if they have alway-on DRM. Don't support companies that pull this crap.

It'll be fine, it's not like EA has a history of turning off their servers is it?

Oh, wait ...

@Mariner32 I don't think you're alone in that regard.

@Jebril Yeah, let's shift the blame there instead - better to blame a different industry rather than have people take personal responsibility.

It's the drugs what dunnit!