I see that gamers that the always online idea for many different reasons. Most gamers hate it because they have bad internet, or simply just hate the fact having to be connected all the time, but there is almost no discussion about what always online will do to your games in the future.
The fact is that always online is a rental service. When you buy a game, only you can play it. You can`t sell it to someone else, you can`t give it to a friend, and you can only play it for as long Microsoft keeps the servers online. It`s like Sim City and Diablo. Do anyone here still play Dreamcast, Genesis, Master System, PS1, PS2 and so on? Well you can, because you own the consoles and every game for your system. Would you be able to play these games if they required always online back in the days? Probably not. There would be no reason for them to keep these servers running today. And if the servers still were running, they would probably die one day anyway. My point is, your game and consoles would become a brick. It`s lite the worlds most expensive Nexflix.
So if these rumours turns out to be true and you support the next Xbox, you are also supporting gaming becoming a renting service. One day your console and every game you bought for it will die.
This is a big issue for me. In Norway I have to pay $100 for each game, and thats ok. I can do what I want with my games for as long as I want. Im not going to pay between $60-100 to rent games.
Would you?
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