People try to get us down / just because we play computer games
"crazy"
Three reinstalls is madness. Five is better - but at the very least, make it so that the player can contact the software company and arrange for more reinstallation credits (a la Microsoft's system whereby if you upgrade several of your PC's components, Windows XP stops working until you contact Microsoft). I am reminded of the situation which happened after Ocean and Digital Image Design collapsed, several years ago; the "download patches" feature of their games stopped working, which meant that several of them became unplayable as Windows was updated.
Presumably the ultimate goal is a move towards client-server games, which run entirely on the software company's servers, and send out screen updates to dumb terminals; that way, you would not own the game at all, you would rent time on it.
"Gmaes are on my 360. makes life a lo easier, I don't have to buy graphics cards twice a year, nor do I have to upgrade to a quad-core processor to run them."
No, you don't have to buy a new graphics card when new games demand it. You have to buy an entirely new model of XBox. And with a PC, even an old-fashioned graphics card can at least run modern games, with some of the detail turned down; with a games console, there is no forwards compatibility of any kind whatsoever at all.
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People try to get us down / just because we play computer games
"crazy"
Three reinstalls is madness. Five is better - but at the very least, make it so that the player can contact the software company and arrange for more reinstallation credits (a la Microsoft's system whereby if you upgrade several of your PC's components, Windows XP stops working until you contact Microsoft). I am reminded of the situation which happened after Ocean and Digital Image Design collapsed, several years ago; the "download patches" feature of their games stopped working, which meant that several of them became unplayable as Windows was updated.
Presumably the ultimate goal is a move towards client-server games, which run entirely on the software company's servers, and send out screen updates to dumb terminals; that way, you would not own the game at all, you would rent time on it.
"Gmaes are on my 360. makes life a lo easier, I don't have to buy graphics cards twice a year, nor do I have to upgrade to a quad-core processor to run them."
No, you don't have to buy a new graphics card when new games demand it. You have to buy an entirely new model of XBox. And with a PC, even an old-fashioned graphics card can at least run modern games, with some of the detail turned down; with a games console, there is no forwards compatibility of any kind whatsoever at all.