The industry won't die without innovation. The quality of the games however will go right in the shitter. The industry won't die as long as there are suckers with money, it'll just become an embarrassment that doesn't deserve to exist. All the devs will just be parasites that feed off money.
@banana23man It's about both to me. And both are also part of a larger problem outside gaming. Greedy corporations are impeding progress for money and control and most of us just lay back and accept it. We fight evil all the time in games but so few even recognize it in the real world. Real evil is more subtle, more human and more boring than it is in any video game. For example, the contracts we have to accept to play most games now or to have a PSN/XBL account. How many people actually take the time to read those agreements? or even look up a summary?
@bamabam You're right about them only caring about the money but that's exactly why they do care if they promote laziness. If they didn't promote laziness, they might lose money. Having digital as an option is ok, having it as the only option isn't. It sucks but the fast and convenient path rarely leads anywhere good. In this case, it leads to people like my brother. He is a living near-stereotype. 36 year old felon, graying and balding, plays almost nothing but WoW, weighs about 350 lbs. and lives in our mother's basement...with his 3rd wife and his 3rd son. In the words of Yoda, "If you choose the quick and easy path, as Vader did, you will become an agent of evil."
@bamabam I'm perfectly fine with things changing as long as it's an improvement. This isn't. Wanting a physical copy doesn't mean someone is old, it means they don't want all their games lost because their system broke, which happens far more frequently than it used to. Look how long the average 360 lasts compared to an N64. Just because you can afford a couple hundred bucks once doesn't mean you could afford $60 a month indefinitely. There's also many people who don't want the consoles to be online only, myself included, who will not buy it if it is. I know very well that people are lazy and impatient, but we shouldn't enable that kind of behavior because it leads to people just taking whatever crap they're given and not doing anything about it except complaining. You wanna get screwed by the game companies (among others), go right ahead. Maybe someday people like you will be able to download yourselves onto computers into a collective hive mind and achieve your digital destiny. Then the rest of us can just unplug them, hit mute or just fry them with an electromagnetic pulse. Unless they go the Terminator route.
So basically he's saying , f**k anyone without internet. This is exactly why i think consoles should have never gone online in the first place. Online games should've stayed computer only. How many generations of consoles have we had now? Only the most recent generation has been online and look at all the problems it's created. Sure, there's small benefits, but overall, it ain't worth it. In a larger picture, I think economics will be the death of all of us because progress isn't cost-effective. You make more money off spreading the disease and making treatments than you do by curing it.
To Microsoft: I do NOT want touch screen. I do NOT want every damn game to be a Kinect game. I do NOT care about trading digital goods. I DO want to buy used games. GameStop can kiss my ass with the BS they pull. Also, you make your money off the original purchase dipsh*t, like everybody else, so stop being a bunch of greedy scum-sucking a-holes. Keep pissing people off and Germany might not be the only country your products get banned in. The more I hear, the less interested I get in the next X-Box.
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