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janh · 04-18-10, 09:43 AM

Is OSP/DRM a viable business model? For me as a customer, presently of course no. If they turned their model into some "netflix" like "download & play any game at a time" service for a small monthly fee (say also $10 for 1 game at a time, $15 for having two simultaneous installs etc), then I might buy it.

Then I could just focus the really good ones. And I could just try the ones that down look great, without being annoyed afterwards or angry about wasting my $$. In the end, however, it would probably not be cheaper (assuming I play one game like ARMA2 intensely for 5 years, that would be 60x$10...; so the true rate per game should be about $1-2 per month, i.e. 5-10 games on your hdd at a time per $10). Maybe the system is already best as it is?

04-18-10, 09:43 AM	#54
janh Stinking drunk in Trinidad Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 349 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	pay per play... Is OSP/DRM a viable business model? For me as a customer, presently of course no. If they turned their model into some "netflix" like "download & play any game at a time" service for a small monthly fee (say also $10 for 1 game at a time, $15 for having two simultaneous installs etc), then I might buy it. Then I could just focus the really good ones. And I could just try the ones that down look great, without being annoyed afterwards or angry about wasting my $$. In the end, however, it would probably not be cheaper (assuming I play one game like ARMA2 intensely for 5 years, that would be 60x$10...; so the true rate per game should be about $1-2 per month, i.e. 5-10 games on your hdd at a time per $10). Maybe the system is already best as it is? __________________ Scientific facts are not determined by the opinion of the majority, nor by a democratic vote.