@AdrianWrz If it was me, I'd ask for $20-50. At most, a free copy of the game. It's not about the money, it's the principle. I didn't make that map for your company, and I didn't give you permission to use it. You WILL NOT use my work without my permission.

@Pilgrim117 I'm pretty sure you have no idea how copyright law works, or how important it is.

@helldragonzer If no one gives a crap about the map, why would Naughty Dog bother to put it in their game?

@realscarygary Since you have access to a computer, I highly doubt you live in a backward country where the design of a map can't be copyrighted. And if you do, I'm sorry.

The One comes with a ton of features I don't care about (TV, Kinect) and it greatly devalues the idea of property. My game collection for the One would be pretty much untransferable and it would hold zero monetary value, a concept which pretty much burns one of the three basic natural rights. Given these restrictions, I would consider $100 to be overpriced, let alone $500.

But then MS told me they were actually UNDERPRICING their console! Silly me! Of course you're right, Microsoft! Put me down for 10 new Xbox Ones!

Not a bad attempt at PR spin. Ownership is "morphing." Right. The only thing that's changed is that they don't want us to own what we buy.

@sdobati Difference is that my cell phone still makes calls, and does so better than my old "dumb" flip phone. Whereas with the 360, there's a very clear cut line where MS started putting more emphasis on their other services, and the gaming started to suffer.

The first half of the 360 lifespan was amazing. The second half has been miserable, which is why I bought a PS3 to supplement my gaming. There are 10 times more "good" 360 exclusives from before the advent of Kinect than after it came out. Disclaimer: IMO.

Regardless, if some games are illegally using DRM to make one-time use CD keys, it doesn't change the fact that what Steam is doing is illegal.

I can't remember the last time I wasn't able to reuse a CD key. Unless the CD key needed to be online-verified, it's literally impossible for a key to be one use only. Even then, I've installed some online games with keys I hadn't used before except in one of my old computers when I lived hundreds of miles away (so for all they knew, I'd sold my old copy), and they still worked.

In the EU, this right extends to digital copies. You say licenses are not transferable... they are in the EU, as ruled by the Court of Justice last year.