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

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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