Former EA CEO: Gamers will learn to love always-on DRM

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Gamers will want, and learn to love, the good parts of consoles being more connected to our digital lives than was possible with the machines launched eight years ago," he wrote on Kotaku. "Some gamers fear the new consoles could be more about a DRM-walled garden than about enabling new types of connected gameplay. More about squashing second-sale (used games) than allowing us to play the games we own at our friends houses, in dorms or at home, without having to bring the disk with us. I don?t believe consoles managed as walled-gardens will succeed longer term

It needs to be simple, seamless and without a bunch of headaches with multiple registration, identity and pay gates. The walled garden will fall eventually. At launch, Sony and Microsoft must avoid putting up new and alarming DRM schemes, and focus on enabling the cool new game experiences that seamlessly connected consoles allow.

More @ http://www.destructoid.com/former-ea-ceo-gamers-will-learn-to-love-always-on-drm-254417.phtml

[Athernar]

Always online DRM and Riccitello have at least one thing in common.

They both got dumped for being bad.

[spaceelf]

Always online DRM and Riccitello have at least one thing in common.

They both got dumped for being bad.

Got dumped, eh?

Ubisoft is still using it even after all the bitching

Blizzard is still using it even after all the bitching

Simcity is still using it even after all the bitching

Who dumped it?

[margrave]

I did. I don't buy any product with it. All the companies you listed lost my business. Used to buy them, but not now.

Don't miss them either. I also dropped EA.

[SharpGreen]

Got dumped, eh?

Ubisoft is still using it even after all the bitching

Blizzard is still using it even after all the bitching

Simcity is still using it even after all the bitching

Who dumped it?

What games is Ubisoft still using it in? Of the only two I know of, at least one had it removed in a patch.

[articuno1au]

Got dumped, eh?

Ubisoft is still using it even after all the bitching

Blizzard is still using it even after all the bitching

Simcity is still using it even after all the bitching

Who dumped it?

^ See

What games is Ubisoft still using it in? Of the only two I know of, at least one had it removed in a patch.

Ubisoft have ripped out always online from all of their games to the best of my knowledge.

[seta-san]

Former Prison warden: Prisoners will learn to love always on handcuffs.

[Athernar]

Got dumped, eh?

Ubisoft is still using it even after all the bitching

Blizzard is still using it even after all the bitching

Simcity is still using it even after all the bitching

Who dumped it?

Ubisoft are dumping it as attested to by the above posters, always online happened in Diablo 3 because of the RMAH - something Blizzard have now stated was a dumb idea.

So that leaves us with EA, 'nuff said on that front.

[spaceelf]

Ubisoft are dumping it as attested to by the above posters

In theory.

But you know? This was after they supposedly dropped it.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/11/30/far-cry-3-servers-down-already-ubi-this-is-a-mess/

[LaP]

I heard if you get poked in the eyes enough time you'll eventually like it too.

[vcfan]

I want all my devices to be always online,always connected, all the time. I don't care if some of you have ****ty internet, it isn't my problem. We shouldn't be technologically held back because of the lowest common denominator. buy something else and stop complaining.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

I like how he basically says the exact opposite of the title in the quote.

[nvllsvm]

I want all my devices to be always online,always connected, all the time. I don't care if some of you have ****ty internet, it isn't my problem. We shouldn't be technologically held back because of the lowest common denominator. buy something else and stop complaining.

Yes, I love having all my devices connected, all the time! However, when the always-on requirement is artificially created, there's a problem.

[Athernar]

In theory.

But you know? This was after they supposedly dropped it.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/11/30/far-cry-3-servers-down-already-ubi-this-is-a-mess/

Sounds more like a crappy digital distribution platform problem to me.

[.jCliff]

After my experience with D3, no thanks - i won't learn to love it.