PC gamer here, I'm ready for it, as is my modest-spec PC.

100GB of storage has an equivalent cost of, what, 5 dollars/pounds/euros?
Please stop shafting the customers that have been your bread and butter for over a decade.

Your point is valid for the other examples you give, but someone should point out that Apple does not DRM its AAC files in the ITMS and hasn't for years.

They wont care about this at all. They are not going after Geohot because he used his PS3 as a paperweight, they are going after him because they claim he altered the embedded software running on the PS3 and redistributed it illegally. This is my understanding, so add a pinch of salt to taste.

As you point out, this happens all the time and not always to the detriment of gameplay.

One super-famous example is the quake series. For some reason (perhaps to allow more effective dodging), characters can move more quickly side-to-side than they can forwards and backwards. An unintended consequence of this was strafe jumping, one of the game's most fun features.

Good developers recognise what their playerbase enjoys and what makes a game fun. The rumour is that John Carmack even tried to remove strafe jumping from quake, because players looked stupid, jumping around like rabbits.

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This will be made a moot point by the forced obsolescence practiced since forever by the industry. They want, and have always wanted to exact precise control over the entire channel end-to-end.

It's a wet dream for these businesses to be able to almost completely guarantee that no consumer can buy or sell games second-hand. It's only because they had no other viable method of distribution that you've been permitted to take home a physical product up till now.
Those in charge of these businesses absolutely want you to only be able to play old games by their gracious say-so and through their marvellous Virtual Portal®. At a price, of course and only as long as they deem it profitable. It's software as a service and it's horrid.

Even PCs are not immune from this. It is not easy to play DirectX games from the 90s on current platforms and it's not going to get any easier with all the dialing home and DRM employed in modern games.
They are closing a loop-hole and they can't wait.

Same here. People that grow up playing and enjoying games do not become top-level executives for giant game publishers like EA.

These are business men. This guy's title is 'Label President', which should tell you all you need to know. The majority of people in those roles arrive there from similar positions in other industries, like entertainment.

What they know about actual games is mostly provided to them by consumer research reports, questionnaires and marketing analysts. There are exceptions, but I am generalising.

The result? Ridiculous statements like these in TFA, DRM up the wazzoo and hilariously bad shitware repeated ad nauseum every 12-18 months.

If you work in Microsoft-world, Win+Pause/Break is shortcut for System Properties. Quite handy.

Lt. Frank Drebin: Hector Savage. From Detroit. Ex-boxer. His real name was Joey Chicago.
Ed Hocken: Oh, yeah. He fought under the name of Kid Minneapolis.
Nordberg: I saw Kid Minneapolis fight once. In Cincinnati.
Lt. Frank Drebin: No you're thinking of Kid New York. He fought out of Philly.
Ed Hocken: He was killed in the ring in Houston. By Tex Colorado. You know, the Arizona Assassin.
Nordberg: Yeah, from Dakota. I don't remember it was North or South.
Lt. Frank Drebin: North! South Dakota was his brother. From West Virginia.
Ed Hocken: You sure know your boxing.
Lt. Frank Drebin: Well, all I know is never bet on the white guy.

Q3 had/has no voice chat. What's your point?

Subscribers can set up private games. Sure, you don't host the server from your computer, but who cares? You're getting the benefits of proper server infrastructure hosting your game.

If you want obscure maps and mods, no-one is stopping you playing Q3. Or QW or Q2 for that matter. Some people just want a level playing field and lots of opponents. id have already ported many top maps from Q3A, CPMA, Threewave and RA3 on top of the QL ones. There's Freezetag, Instagib and CA in place of RA3; by far the most popular mods.

Oh noes! Really, all I hear is bellyaching.

This is never going to happen whilst Quake Live is around. Frankly, it would tank horribly because most of the community wouldn't want it. Who plays Q3 for the graphics?

id already put in the effort bringing QL visuals up to snuff with modern shader support and post processing effects and most players switch it all off.

No. No-one else around here is wondering.

This is it. Avid gamers often have tunnel vision on this topic. Everyone has a finite number of hours per week to use for leasure. The majority of players do not play 5 hours each day.

Many modern western games update rather than innovate. To enthusiasts this is painfully obvious, but when you only spend 3 hours a week playing, it's not so apparent. So, the games still sell and the companies continue on with Halo IX.

If you're watching a Blu-Ray, you're quite possibly watching a "1080p h264 encode" anyway. If you mean an x264 re-encode at much lower bitrate, then fine. Depending on the content, the spec of your display, your viewing distance not to mention your eyes, there may be little or no discernible difference to you. You'd probably also be fine with upscaled NTSC or PAL.