"One Save Games" to hit market, limit used sales, only lets you play game once thru, page 2

Originally posted by warbird03
People need to calm down. It does sound terrible, but it can't work for anything but cartridge-based systems where the game saves data on the cartridge itself. This means they'll probably try to push it mostly on the DS and 3DS, possibly on the Vita too but nobody knows enough about it yet to make an educated guess.

Besides, the market is moving more and more towards digital distribution anyways. Much better solution to the "problem" even though the used game market really isn't a problem anyways.

Maybe and maybe not. What if they start this mess?
THIS DVD/CD WILL SELF DESTRUCT

reply to post by fixer1967

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That is a somewhat different issue, but it's not so different from merely renting a game.

reply to post by warbird03

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That's interesting.

You'd think enviro-nazi's would be all over that. As it is regular DVD's and CD's are piling up in landfills like crazy. A one-use disposable DVD is just egregious.

Towns and cities all over America are placing draconian bans on plastic shopping bags and water bottles in the name of the environment and that's just the tip of the iceberg if trash piling into landfills is really their concern.

Originally posted by warbird03
reply to post by fixer1967

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That is a somewhat different issue, but it's not so different from merely renting a game.

Well yes and no. My point is that if you buy a game for $50 or $60 and after a week of so it is nothing more than a frisbee to play fetch with the dog and not even good for that. The games had better be dirt cheap or the company that goes this way will not be around long.
This trend is going to put a lot of CDs and DVDs in the landfills

reply to post by wiandiii

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As a gamer this idea is like a double-edged sword. On the one hand I could see it working alright for certain games if the game companies sell a FULL game and a Once Thru version. There are some games I might only want to play once through, game franchises that I wouldn't be interested in shelling out 60 bucks for up front so a cheaper Once Thru version would be ideal. However that doesn't seem to be what they're doing here... they seem to be taking the greedy route though I fail to see how this will work for console gaming where the save data is on a console hard-drive and not on disc. I also don't see how this could work for multiplayer games either.

I do see one other consequence, if the next person who gets the game has to start over from wherever I stop don't they also get all the achievements I unlocked and the items I collected? So couldn't I then charge friends money for getting them to a certain point in the game before I pass the disc off and capitalize on capcom's stupidity

reply to post by sempul

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"ownership" is just one more thing we are losing in the messed up world of today. It makes me sick to see this crap but it is here to stay. I see a day coming when you will have to pay by the year to use anything and everything. There very computer you are viewing this on will have to have a yearly payment or it will just stop working. Face it , that is the world of tomorrow where you own nothing but everything is used by you on a rental bases. There will even be a day to come where the car you drive will never be yours or the house you live in as well. Maybe even the clothes you ware will all be nothing more than a rental.

reply to post by wiandiii

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that sucks, oh well, it looks like i will have to make sure that when i buy a game it is not made by capcom.
how they see this as a selling point i have no idea, if i buy a game it is mine to do as i please, if i want to give it to a friend then i will.

reply to post by thisguyrighthere

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I am in complete agreement with your sentiment here. This is one of the reasons why I'm such an advocate of opensource and am going to school right now.

The turning point will be when they tell us we can't make programs because the idea has already been used.

I hope this company faces a colossal fail.

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