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Bleak Future for Videogame Customers
jvm writes "A recent commentary on Curmudgeon Gamer speculates on the future of the videogame market. Among the predictions: no more rentals from video stores, no used games market, no lending games to friends, less upgradeable computers, pay-as-you-play software subscriptions, and other consumer-unfriendly changes. In all, less gaming value for your hard-earned dollar."
For the time being, my gamefly.com subscription is servicing my modded Xbox quite well, thank you!
no way around it. lookout bullow. this ain't no game.
thats the most retarded thing ive ever heard,
esp - less upgradable computers
At that point, Steam will be distributed to all those millions of computers, building a vast network across which Valve can begin selling software
This is an amazing technological breakthrough! But where is Valve going to get enough coal to power this vast network?
Yeah bitch. And fuck you. Your mom likes it in the ass.
The bigger question that we've long been aware of is completely ignored in this article. The world needs a business model or seven which allows those who write content to profit from their work. After the original sequence of bits have been cobbled together, they can be duplicated endlessly without any help from the original author(s). The concept of "intellectual property" is crumbling, and something new is going to rise up in its place.
A steaming cup of soykaf would be real wiz right now.
...crappy web commentators.