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Originally Posted by Ashasx

The most bizarre thing is not all this DRM crap, but how ignorant Microsoft appears to be about consumer opinion on it all.

What in the world were they thinking releasing these statements yesterday? Who wrote it? Who approved it? How stupid can you be?

Eurogamer has a nice article about that actually:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...ts-us-to-smile

Almost exactly a year ago, at the end of an E3 press conference in which Microsoft heralded fitness software, Kinect, Internet Explorer, Bing and dying action games as the future of entertainment, I wrote that anyone who has paid attention to Microsoft's business over the years should not be surprised by its apparent lack of self-awareness.

"If we are entertained by what Microsoft chooses to do for its own gain," I suggested, "then that is simply a happy coincidence."

Guess what? The coincidence is over.

But under Microsoft's new rules, we are no longer building a collection of games - we are building a collection of loans that may be recalled from us at any time, leaving us with nothing but distant memories. And that loss will be simple, instant and complete.