Quote Originally Posted by Crescent View Post
Knowing that they had ill intentions from the start to control MY purchased good is enough for me to never give them a cent out of my wallet. I cannot believe some people are so ready to throw money at a company that, four days ago was perfectly prepared to **** you in all the ways you could be ****ed in regards to gaming and privacy.
I agree with you but I'm also not ready to exonerate Sony in this, either.

They may look like a bunch of geniuses that could do no wrong right now but the truth is, I'm sure they were exploring ways to pander to the Big Publishers, too. But Microsoft made the first move and Sony called them on it while holding their own hand close to their chest.

I'm sure there's a lot of juicy info from the Sony camp that hasn't been revealed because they deemed it more profitable to oppose Microsoft this time around instead of embracing the DRM Age only to receive the same backlash.

It's only a matter of time.

And let's be honest here: Microsoft didn't do this *strictly* for their fans or they wouldn't have tried pushing this bullshit on them in the first place. This move was a direct reaction to their chief rival, Sony, in order to compete this holiday season. Nothing more, nothing less. Those ridonkulous pro-Sony preorder sales figures must have added up.

I don't particularly trust Microsoft to throw all that DRM coding to the curb. They may sit on it for a while. This was all done to future-proof the console, right? To embrace a fully-digital future when that time comes? What if that future comes and they reimplement it on the Xbox One (or Xbox Two?). They can just as easily renege and go back to it (like Rowan said) at a time when consumers become more complacent and eat whatever MS spoonfeeds them.

I'm opting out of that gaming future if it ever comes to that.