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It'll be interesting to see how this plays out given the immense amount of damage done already by their out-of-touch policies. It's like the SimCity debacle was
by meritt 13y ago
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out given the immense amount of damage done already by their out-of-touch policies. It's like the SimCity debacle was just somehow ignored over there. Guessing the numerous PS4 pre-orders and the telling Amazon poll finally convinced someone "Hey guys, turns out that DRM policy is killing us, can we please disable it?"
An entity that only does the right thing after being publicly ousted is not an entity deserving of the public's trust or business.
- MartinCron 13y agoAn entity that only does the right thing after being publicly ousted is not an entity deserving of the public's trust or business That feels overly cynical. It's not like they were caught doing something underhanded, they just announced policies that weren't as consumer-friendly. There was a backlash, their competition took advantage of it, and they switched to a better policy. To me, it seems that everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Capitalism still works.