[RHat]

The part I don't get is why they're so eager to piss off retailers...

[Hellion]

Because some small minded rectally endowed ass clown look at some sort of survey that shows the some small minority of the gaming community or possibly even just their own employees want it the way.... Or some other none sensical bullshit reason

[mtfeeney = Baron]

Because we live in a world where people will absolutely buy it.  That means the retailers will absolutely buy and keep it in stock.

In short, "Because they can."  Sometimes, the world makes me sad.

[RHat]

A certain amount of it will be down to pressure from publishers - after all, they don't make money off used sales.  However, used games are a very large part of the retail model for games these days.  The margin for the retailer on a new game is terrible, so many rely on used sales for the bulk of their earnings.  Hence why I'd expect a strong reaction from those companies.

[Mirikon]

Yeah, I've bought like maybe two games in the past couple years: Dragon Age II and Tomb Raider. I bought my 360 used off eBay for $70. Way things stand, I'll probably look into emulators and cracked versions of games instead. If I'm going to be treated as a thief, I might as well be a thief and save myself some money along the way.

[PeterSmith]

Given that the CPU went from PowerPC on the 360 to x86 on the One it's not surprising there is no backwards compatability. And before somebody says "Emulators!", stop. Just stop. Emulation is only successful if you can get 1:1 performance based on the old hardware, and that's damned difficult to do. Otherwise you're just wasting people's time and adding on frustration. Don't believe me? Remember that the Playstation 3 launched with Playstation 2 hardware on the same board to allow for PS2 games to be played. That lasted one generation. The second generation went emulation, which worked for a lot of games but not all (I had about a 75% success rate). Third generation of the PS3 hardware? It was gone, and aside from the gnashing of teeth by a small group of gamers nobody really missed it (much like Linux on the PS3).

[CanRay]

In short, "Because they can."  Sometimes, the world makes me sad.

You realize these are the Shadowrun forums, right?

We should be used to thinking this way.   

[All4BigGuns]

Yeah, I've bought like maybe two games in the past couple years: Dragon Age II and Tomb Raider. I bought my 360 used off eBay for $70. Way things stand, I'll probably look into emulators and cracked versions of games instead. If I'm going to be treated as a thief, I might as well be a thief and save myself some money along the way.

Yep, and that's probably what a LOT of others will be doing.

[CanRay]

Yeah, I've bought like maybe two games in the past couple years: Dragon Age II and Tomb Raider. I bought my 360 used off eBay for $70. Way things stand, I'll probably look into emulators and cracked versions of games instead. If I'm going to be treated as a thief, I might as well be a thief and save myself some money along the way.

Yep, and that's probably what a LOT of others will be doing.

I'm going to stay legit, but get games for PC now.  And Kickstart a lot more that don't have excessive DRM!  Such as Shadowrun:  Returns! 

[All4BigGuns]

Yeah, I've bought like maybe two games in the past couple years: Dragon Age II and Tomb Raider. I bought my 360 used off eBay for $70. Way things stand, I'll probably look into emulators and cracked versions of games instead. If I'm going to be treated as a thief, I might as well be a thief and save myself some money along the way.

Yep, and that's probably what a LOT of others will be doing.

I'm going to stay legit, but get games for PC now.  And Kickstart a lot more that don't have excessive DRM!  Such as Shadowrun:  Returns! 

I'll probably get about as many as I do now (almost none), but I tend to get bored quickly with video games these days. Too many are made to be difficult just to be difficult these days. Games like this Dark Souls game are a plague and blight upon video games.

[Hellion]

I think I'll just wait for Xbox one to be released and buy all the Xbox 360 games I can cheap and then make sure that I speak to a right fine gent who has a degree in electronics to maintain the Xbox 360 I have for ever and be a happy (not so) little Aussie munchkin

P.s those lovely people designing Assassin's Creed Black Flag better be releasing it on the 360 that's all I can say

[PeterSmith]

P.s those lovely people designing Assassin's Creed Black Flag better be releasing it on the 360 that's all I can say

So far it's slated for a rather wide release: PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, XBox 360, and XBox One.

[Hellion]

I'm currently playing thru all of the series and will be most annoyed if they don't release it for the 360, it bugs me when they only release something on 1 system and not any of the others

[mtfeeney = Baron]

Shadowrun: Returns is going to have DRM, CanRay.  There's a whole hubbub about it on their forums.  Only the Kickstart donators can get a special DRM-free version.  I know you said you'll use kickstarter, but I wanted to clarify that the game itself is not DRM-free.

[The_Gun_Nut]

Personally stopped buying consoles and console games.  Every time I try to get into one (friend says "ZOMG it's so good!) I end up selling the thing (buy used, way smarter).  Consoles anymore are making the same game over and over.  Very sad .