I do understand the outrage for the people that this does affect, but for the most part this does not affect me because:
1. I don't ever sell games
2. I rarely buy used games
3. I'm never offline for more than 24 hours at a time\n
I also have a gaming PC and will probably end up with all of the consoles, as that is what normally happens, since there will eventually be some games I want to play on each system. I tend to not get caught up with how evil companies are. I just use them for their products and if their products stop being useful to me, I will stop getting them.
My biggest concern at this point is one that Microsoft hasn't addressed, which is what happens eventually when they stop supporting this console. I don't like the possibility that in 10-15 years, I may never be able to go back and play any games that I purchased on this console.
While this is annoying financially, I also see it as a problem in terms of video game history. You can never tell somebody about an awesome game you play years ago and recomend they go check it out. It would be more like with MMOs, where if you didn't get to experience some game when the servers were still live, or you didn't get to experience vanilla WoW, then you never will. In the future, this next generation of consoles could completely disappear, and all that would be left to show for it is the Wii U.
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Well Blizzard was acquired by Vivendi in 1998, which also happened to be the last year that Blizzard release an original IP. Coincidence? Maybe..
I do understand the outrage for the people that this does affect, but for the most part this does not affect me because:
1. I don't ever sell games
2. I rarely buy used games
3. I'm never offline for more than 24 hours at a time\n
I also have a gaming PC and will probably end up with all of the consoles, as that is what normally happens, since there will eventually be some games I want to play on each system. I tend to not get caught up with how evil companies are. I just use them for their products and if their products stop being useful to me, I will stop getting them.
My biggest concern at this point is one that Microsoft hasn't addressed, which is what happens eventually when they stop supporting this console. I don't like the possibility that in 10-15 years, I may never be able to go back and play any games that I purchased on this console.
While this is annoying financially, I also see it as a problem in terms of video game history. You can never tell somebody about an awesome game you play years ago and recomend they go check it out. It would be more like with MMOs, where if you didn't get to experience some game when the servers were still live, or you didn't get to experience vanilla WoW, then you never will. In the future, this next generation of consoles could completely disappear, and all that would be left to show for it is the Wii U.