I don't know about Ouya, haven't really been following the news on that front, but isn't Steam always-on as well? Or at least tied to your account. I'm not sure protesting against a certain, uhm, let's call it feature, by going for the competition which has pretty much the same feature lends a lot of credence..
That said, most games these days already come with a code for online play that locks it to your account, and forces you to buy another code if you want to play online after buying the game second-hand. If this rumor proves true it would suck, but it's not a giant leap from where we are now.
When I was a kid I used to play war with my friends. We'd run around pointing sticks or plastic toy guns at each other shouting "BANG BANG BANG! YOU'RE DEAD!!", sooner or later two kids would bicker and argue over who killed who, and the game would end. Obviously I'm an old man and this was in the pre-columbine world, because playing games like that now would get you sent to that clinical psychiatrist you mentioned. But were those massive battles we'd play out every day really all that different from videogames? After all, it's all pretend violence. If somebody's unable to tell the difference between pretend violence and reality, don't you think he'll snap sooner or later, with or without manhunt 2 or whatever game is politically correct to bash this week?
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I don't know about Ouya, haven't really been following the news on that front, but isn't Steam always-on as well? Or at least tied to your account.
I'm not sure protesting against a certain, uhm, let's call it feature, by going for the competition which has pretty much the same feature lends a lot of credence..
That said, most games these days already come with a code for online play that locks it to your account, and forces you to buy another code if you want to play online after buying the game second-hand. If this rumor proves true it would suck, but it's not a giant leap from where we are now.
Would SUV drivers even get that joke? You'd think they'd just sit there snickering "hehehehe... It says genitals on his backpack! Genitals are funny!"
When I was a kid I used to play war with my friends. We'd run around pointing sticks or plastic toy guns at each other shouting "BANG BANG BANG! YOU'RE DEAD!!", sooner or later two kids would bicker and argue over who killed who, and the game would end. Obviously I'm an old man and this was in the pre-columbine world, because playing games like that now would get you sent to that clinical psychiatrist you mentioned. But were those massive battles we'd play out every day really all that different from videogames? After all, it's all pretend violence. If somebody's unable to tell the difference between pretend violence and reality, don't you think he'll snap sooner or later, with or without manhunt 2 or whatever game is politically correct to bash this week?
The exact same thing has been running here in Rotterdam, Holland for YEARS now, but when they build it in britain it's suddenly news???
bah....
Oh, and for those that mentioned vaporware, it does actually work, not sure how it holds up to vandalism though, i've never been on it.