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Oh, snap.

So it's just gonna be like that. *sigh*

Usually it's my hand straying to the ole Xbone when I can't sleep.

I know they start with the same letters, but I'm relatively certain that didn't spell Duke Nukem.

You can say that about anything, though.

Welp, not necessarily. The PS3 version will not be "always on" - I think that a big part of the difference is a PC is almost always "online" whereas consoles are often offline devices. It seems like it creates more pushback for a console dev to have an always online requirement than a PC dev.

I'll be curious to see just how many people buy it on PS3. Too bad we can't measure how many of those people would have been willing to buy it offline for the PC.

And yeah, it was a successful game. But the point was never about its success. Its success was brought up in relation to always-on DRM, so what needs to be considered is its success relative to that aspect.

So if it could have sold double the games without the DRM, I'd say that was a big loss. If it stood to sell 3% more, then it's not a big deal.

For the record, I expect D3 to sell extremely well on the PS3. It's essentially what the game always should have been. Loot optimized for your class, no RMT AH, no always-on DRM?

It literally does away with everything that was highly criticized about the PC version.

Well, everything but the story. But to be fair, I doubt the story was its major selling point for most gamers.

I don't know why but I loved LOVED the original Diablo on PS1 a lot more then I did on my PC. Prolly had more to do with playing on a big screen in a recliner heh.

Wait, they released D1 on the PS1? I never knew that.

I wouldn't mind DRM if it came with massive discounts on games, like Steam does. Of course, Steam does also offer an offline mode.

That too.

Looking down on others for having an opinion is incredibly arrogant, something that is a significant problem already in the gaming community.


Microsoft is simply using a different approach to the same problem that Sony faces: how to turn a used game sale into a new game sale.

In 10 years, I doubt their policy will mean much since more and more will transition to digital downloads.
Sony simply chose a gradual approach rather than a forced one.


Never understood this one. If the industry cannot support games with such a huge budget, why not cut back? How are used games to blame for the exaggerated budgets for many games?

Edited, Jun 14th 2013 11:01am by xypin

Used games aren't to blame for the budgets. Used games are to blame for the inability to pay off said budgets.

I'd assume the answer to "why not just cut back" was "The visual fidelity and feature sets we expect from games now come with sky high costs. Assassins Creed games are made by thousands of devs."