Vista only for Halo 2!

My opinion is... make all that DRM crap like an add-on in case we *want* all that hi-def crap, don't build it in an say "oh, now you can use it!"

I personally see the death of all this DRM in the near future, or else the death of free technology. Companies for far too long have protected their future "interests" by "inventing" incompatibilities that only "they" can fix. Sony product? Only uses Sony Memory Sticks, only use Sony Audio Formats... get bent Sony! Stick to what you are good at.

Microsoft has taken it upon themselves to decide for us what types of content we wish to enjoy in the future, and so decide to design into the operating system exactly what we "want". Which means hi-def expensive dvds, crap games developed by microsoft and licenced by them in future... what is to stop them saying "no, you paid no royalty fee, you won't be able to use that on *our* operating system" ?

IMO as soon as we sort out a generic system for cross OS games and general application development, we can kiss goodbye to Windows and say hello to freedom on Linux. No coorporation with capital investment, no limitations on what we it can be used for.

If all games developed at the moment ran on Linux as well as PC, Windows would be gone from my house. And they can keep their crappy specialised monitors with DRM built in...
 
thats the problem though, the hardware manufacturers and game developers seem to just follow Bill Gates and his Windows. what if next gen PC games require Directx (say) 12 which needs directx 12 hardware and is only available on Vista. Then we will be forced to buy Vista by which time there will be no more updates or support for XP.
 
mark_t50 said:
I just dont like the way the Vista OS is heading, all this DRM stuff (whether it's microsoft's fault or not) is just a bit to oppressive. I don't really do anything illigal with my pc, but I'm very stubborn and out of principle I dont like an OS that has the potential to stop me watching or doing what I want and in the way that I want.
Click to expand...
Yes, Vista will have the potential to decide whether you can watch or do what you want.

XP, on the other hand, will just stop you watching it. Unless you install the DRM software.
 
Shoseki said:
Microsoft has taken it upon themselves to decide for us what types of content we wish to enjoy in the future, and so decide to design into the operating system exactly what we "want". Which means hi-def expensive dvds, crap games developed by microsoft and licenced by them in future... what is to stop them saying "no, you paid no royalty fee, you won't be able to use that on *our* operating system" ?
Click to expand...

You really aren't listening to what anyone is explaining about DRM are you?
 
BoomAM said:
People will still buy it en-mass.
Not everyone has a Xbox to play it on. And then there are the sad people who already have it for Xbox, who'll rebuy it, just to play it with a keyboard/mouse/higher resolution.
Click to expand...
Dunno tbh, hard to tell, but I would expect that the majority of the hardcore fans would already have it on Xbox, and wouldn't buy it for pc, therefore leaving a small market of people who would buy it...
 
Are MS saying we are going to get high quality current games with Vista, or aged Xbox ports? I mean if they brought out some of the latest Xbox360 games then it would be impressive perhaps - PGR 3 or whatever. But old Xbox ports??
 
dirtydog said:
Are MS saying we are going to get high quality current games with Vista, or aged Xbox ports? I mean if they brought out some of the latest Xbox360 games then it would be impressive perhaps - PGR 3 or whatever. But old Xbox ports??
Click to expand...
I would presume there'd be a bit of both. There are some games on the Xbox360 that would have a market pc gamer wise as well as on the xbox.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom