@fiend_ but they do retain ownership actually, they didn't give up their exclusive rights to their product, otherwise there wouldn't be a EULA to agree with when you purchase the product. If I own a home, I can do whatever I want with it as long as it is legal by law, you can't do that with a game, you can't make a copy, you can reverse engineer it, in some cases there are restrictions on reselling
@imagremlin @dman123_1 I am for digital, but a point was brought up to me some days ago. On the PC side, you have competition on digital sales besides Steam, on the Console side whether you purchased an X1 or a PS4 (WIi U as well) you are locked down to one seller. That can be problematic if you are looking for good deals. If the PC side gets more support from developers and becomes more of a presence in the gaming environment, that may force Sony and MS to offer competitively priced games as well on the digital side.
@b74kd3th not always true, alot of people who work on games could go into unemployment once the project is finished (even though that is less and less now with updates and patches and such)
@Gorammit1983 @dman123_1 who siad I was defending, I'm just simply stating what the terms and agreements are. And you missed the point of what I am saying. I wasn't talking the about the game data being on a flash drive, it was purely an example of something being distributed. He made it seem that if you give them a disc that doesn't mean you are distributing the information when you still are. And are you not paying attention to what companies are upset at, they haven't even talked about pirating of games, they are simply talking about used game sales they are not getting. The DRM being discussed now is to reduce used game sales, or to give them a piece of the used game sale, they already have measures on how to deal with illegal copies.
Go back to my original statement of leasing a vs owning and that is what they are trying to sway at us. If you want my personal opinion on it, I don't necessarily like it, but after speaking to a guy who studies law and told me the intricacies these agreements have, my issue is more with the EULA than with anything else.
@Gorammit1983 @dman123_1 @joshua2415_8887 you agree when you purchase it, which is why there is documentation explaining it. Just like buying a game digitally, you agree the moment you buy it. And yes it protects the software but you are acting like you are selling a blank disc
And if you give someone else the disc, you are still distributing the info on the disc. That is no different than if I had a file and put it on the flash drive. No matter if I send you the file digitally, or i give you the flash drive, you still have that info
@Gorammit1983 @dman123_1 @joshua2415_8887 it is not, because you don't own exclusive rights. Buying a game is more similar to leasing a home or a car than owning them
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