Yeah, but Marijuana is something completely different and even legal in some places. Denuvo or something else might one day efficiently limit piracy. Stopping the spread of Marijuana would probably be much more difficult in comparison.

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The ironic part is that legal access to marijuana has been shown to reduce the spread of new users and consumption in general, particularly amongst kids.

Erecting arbitrary walls between consumers and products not only has negative consequences but it doesn't even stifle access to the products, who'da thunk?

This is what I keep telling Steam users who don't care about DRM-free because "Steam isn't going anywhere".
Gaben's successors could easily add a monthly subscription at some point in the future, and that would affect SP too.

Gog would shoot themselves with such move, instead, but who knows.
Anyway, that would only affect MP.

This thread reminded of another reason why the xbox360 screwed gaming by introducing charges.

With the caveat that this is not my area of expertise, at least in the U.S. the wild card here would seem to be Net Neutrality.

If enough of the ISPs slow-laned gaming traffic, that creates two possible paths for multiplayer fees. Either 1) by Steam directly needing to pay the fees to be white-listed into fast-lane traffic, or 2) Steam or some other service (Amazon/twitch, perhaps) seeing a new market to bring MP games under their umbrella offering fast-lane services directly to customers.

You can have 85ms latency for free - or 30ms latency for $9.99/mo!

So if you're just looking at the market of today, then I agree with the majority here that adding fees for this service would probably not fly in a decentralized market where no one controls the hardware, software, etc.

But change it up to where there's cartel control over the data exchange in select countries/markets, and that portion of the market at least potentially shifts.

I really don't think there is enough evidence for that statement. A few anecdotal reports hardly amount to something quite convincing. And that's just fine. You can believe it and I believe the opposite. Both is perfectly fine at this moment.

Really thanks for all your opinions about this matter!

Due to that I decided I'm going to stick with pc from now on. That's not about money, though, more like avoiding those sh***y business practices. Really hopes that illness does not spread by this parts. Cheers!