The General Games Discussion Thread.

I imagine the pre-orders will continue to go that way. However all it takes is a shorter run to get the golden sold out message out, closely followed by the retards selling them for thousands at Christmas.

It's an amazing u-turn but in the eyes of the consumers who care the most they've done irreparable damage by trying to be so completely anti-consumer.

Fuck that, you need a disc in to play games now.

That was one of the things I was looking forward to most.

No you don't. They're letting you decide how you want to do it. You can buy all games digitally still.

No hes right, all the game sharing and one time install stuff is gone now. So to play a disc you will have to have it in the drive at all times even if its installed.

Yeah if I download it I don't need the disc, but I can't be arsed downloading 20gb+ games, it'll take forever.

Aye you're talking 700-800kbps so about 7-8 hours per game.

Tbh I basically only play Fifa plus a few other games here and there so there's no point getting a Steam box, I already have a good iMac I can use.

The PS4 has it so I assume the Xbox One will have it too; you download a fraction of the game, maybe 200mb, then can start playing and it downloads the rest as you play.

Pretty sure the Xbox does it too.

It will only work for certain games though. It wouldn't for games like Fifa due to there being so many teams/options etc.

Hm i cant find anything at all to suggest that though, would have thought it would be something mentioned in a press release somewhere.

You know that Family sharing feature they scrapped which sounded like the only good thing about the console before?

Turns out that sucked anyway:

When your family member accesses any of your games, they’re placed into a special demo mode. This demo mode in most cases would be the full game with a 15-45 minute timer and in some cases an hour...When the time limit was up they would automatically be prompted to the Marketplace so that they may order it if liked the game... The difference between the family sharing and the typical store demo is that your progress is saved as if it was the full game, and the data that was installed for that shared game doesn’t need to be erased when they purchase the full game!

Not like Xbox's marketing & PR to be so shit...Oh wait.

I wonder how many people suddenly went and preordered the Xbox One just because they sacked the DRM stuff, Sadly its probably quite a lot of people.

EDIT - I'll put it in a link.

A list of both console's advantages.

I didn't know Netflix etc will be free with PS+, that's awesome.

You still need a Netflix subscription...

You still need a Netflix subscription...

Yeah but you dont need to pay £40 a year to access something you have to pay for as well.