While I agree the $60 game model is broken I do not agree at all that the disc market is crumbling. I respect Bleszinski a great deal but this is also the same guy that said about the Wii U, "“It’s Nintendo. I’ll buy it. I know I’ll buy it. They’ll talk s*** but they’ll buy it.” That was in 2011 of course. Wonder what he thinks today.
it makes sense but i can see EA stripping the game of basic features and and have gamers buy those features in forms of dlc which would bring the cost back up to 60 anyway.
I did write comments earlier about my support for this platform because I do think it's not just brilliant but controversial. However I had time to think about it and I still 100% support what they are doing but for me it's going to come down to the pricing model that they use. I would love to see a either a more TIVO style model in that you can purchase either monthly, yearly, or lifetime subscriptions, or a model where you're not paying a subscription at all and you just purchase the content that want like some MMO's. I know that last scernio isn't likely to happen but if they choose to go with a subsciption based model I'm not going to be happy about paying for content that I don't want. That's what's wrong with cable television. I'm paying over $90 for like 200 channels of which only 15-20 of them I actually watch. I don't want to subscibe to game service where I'm paying like $15-$20 a month and out of 300 games I'm only playing like 50-80 games. Those extra subsciption dollars should be allocated to games that I want to play. At least with PC and consoles I go to my local retailer and pick and choose which games are worth my money and it's strictly my choice.
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