I’m going to make this a very short post, but in a nut shell, sum up my thoughts and primary concern with the chief issue in this upcoming generation right now.
This isn’t a new issue with gaming. This has been an issue that the PC gaming scene has largely dealt with, going back as far as requiring the CD in drive to play a game. However I’m not here for a history lesson, but to address a very serious concern I have with Sony not playing ball on this restrictive model.
Publishers (a.k.a. Satan) view any and all content resale as a direct impact on sales revenue. With this in mind, the Xbox ONE would appear to be a more preferable platform for developers/publishers. So my concern is the loss of certain publisher support for the Playstation platform as a whole.
However, my 2 cents. I don’t care because most of my gaming is done on a PC where I’m already happily a slave (in large part) to this no resale business model (THANKS STEAM FOR MAKING IT SO EASY! <3) . I (speaking out of the other side of my mouth now) can’t support this business model and will not be contributing money towards it, eventhough 9/10 of my video game purchases are retail. Perhaps Microsoft will work things out in similar fashion as valve so the consumers see a return through game price drops and crazy summer sales, but from what I’m reading, that doesn’t seem likely.
So I’ve been playing Planetside 2 lately. I’ve been playing as New Conglomerate with an outfit called The Iron Wolves [TIW] on Waterson. Coincidentally Planetside 2 is heading towards MLG and in the war report interview this past Sunday Higby in an interview with Alex “Jax” Conroy has revealed a lot of what that will entail (finally!).
Anyway, I’ve not made a post since mother’s day so I thought I’d link the youtube replay of our match from this past Friday against VREV and TRAF. The second objective battle is by far one of the best (in around 10 minutes), with the third base capture having some entertaining points.
