14 DAY TRIAL // Cliff Bleszinski, the designer of big games like the Gears of War series, supports the use of digital rights management (DRM) solutions against used games, or at least applying different limitations to pre-owned titles, like what Microsoft is doing with its Xbox One.
Microsoft caused a huge controversy earlier month when it confirmed that its Xbox One next-gen console imposes certain limitations on used games and on the process of trading them in.
Cliff Bleszinski, the former creative director of Epic Games, believes this is a good thing, as budgets for big titles can't be balanced out just by the regular price tag of a game or through downloadable content.
"You cannot have game and marketing budgets this high while also having used and rental games existing. The numbers do NOT work people," he wrote on Twitter.
"The visual fidelity and feature sets we expect from games now come with sky high costs. This is why you're seeing free to play and microtransactions everywhere. The disc based day one $60 model is crumbling."
The reduction of game budgets isn't a feasible solution, according to Bleszinski, so taxing used games is a must in the next few years.