Digital distribution - the future

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I'll admit that providing DD games for consoles and computers are two separate issues. For one thing, consoles represent a fixed platform so the need for patches is (in theory) much reduced.

I just think that if we really are going to go totally DD in the future, it damn well better work and be user friendly, otherwise, like everything else, customers won't stay customers for long.

The game is the service. If you read the little eula that pops up when installing software carefully it will, in many cases but not all and maybe not even most, specify that you are
You mean we're actually supposed to read those things?! :P Personally, I have a hard time seeing a game as a service myself, though. Like I say, it's all semantics, anyway.