The shit heads' obsession with online DRM is going to be their downfall.
I do hope pushing DRM boils the frog too quickly. We're already well along the way to physical media being less and less useful.
Paywalling and day one DLC have already hamstrung game preservation. Case in point: the next Yakuza game has New Game+ paywalled behind a purchase. Mutahar is 100% right. What happens in 20 years when you install that game and there's no server to validate a DLC purchase? There will effectively be no New Game+ mode playable from the OG disk.
And that's where we stand. Everything enshittifies though subscriptions; live-services require always-on DRM-- which means when servers sunset due to the profit margin shrinking, everything breaks.
Another thing a lot of people don't realise is that it also negates emulation.
Games that require authentication through third-party servers as DRM either for the main game or for DLC will be rendered effectively useless, even if emulated.
I do hope pushing DRM boils the frog too quickly. We're already well along the way to physical media being less and less useful.
Paywalling and day one DLC have already hamstrung game preservation. Case in point: the next Yakuza game has New Game+ paywalled behind a purchase. Mutahar is 100% right. What happens in 20 years when you install that game and there's no server to validate a DLC purchase? There will effectively be no New Game+ mode playable from the OG disk.
And that's where we stand. Everything enshittifies though subscriptions; live-services require always-on DRM-- which means when servers sunset due to the profit margin shrinking, everything breaks.
Another thing a lot of people don't realise is that it also negates emulation.
Games that require authentication through third-party servers as DRM either for the main game or for DLC will be rendered effectively useless, even if emulated.