I imagine they will initially be cheaper. But once they successfully kill transfer of ownership, prices will only go up, and there will be nothing we can do, since they won't have to compete with a used market.
But taking the game away too early isn't the problem. That they have the ability to take customers' games away at all is the problem. What a nightmare it would be if IKEA came to your house at dinner time to regretfully inform you that your table would no longer be available.
I think the "thumbs up/down" were supposed to answer the question "Is this comment relevant to the article?". But people seemed to use it to answer, "Do you agree with this comment?" The new "like" system seems more in line with "do you agree?", minus the anonymity, of course. What would voting for President look like without privacy?
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