Mr Kissyfur wrote:
Sounds like good business sense to me.
It is good business sense in the small scale -- although it's not great for Google's rep and makes their famous "don't be evil" tagline look like crap.
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I honestly can't see the difference between that and the day-1 DLC you were defending.
The market can easily sort out the DLC thing, as you don't have to buy it; it's mostly an attempt to game the second hand pricing, one which could succeed with little harm to consumers. However if net neutrality is overturned it'd be a very rare ISP that still offered it -- it's too hard to explain to average consumers to make it a sales feature you can charge for -- and that's a bad blow for future innovations. It's tiny startups with new ideas that get hurt by this, but they are the lifeblood of innovation in IT.
My belief in free markets only goes so far; regulation is still required. Computer games are not, in the grand scheme of things, important, whereas computer software innovation has generated untold billions and employed millions over the last few decades.