Digital distribution sucks!

[SamuelRSmith]

disolitude said:

SamuelRSmith said:

disolitude said:
The only part of digital distribution that sucks in my mind is that you can't resell your digital copy. But im sure this will be possible in the near future...

 

 How the hell would that be possible? Digital distribution platforms are usually run by the developers and publishers, there would be no gain for them for allowing people to "sell" there game back to them.

Whatsmore, this would kill sales much more easily than second hand hard copies, mainly because the risk of getting a damaged copy of the game is null. You'd essentially be buying a brand new copy of the game for a discount price. No money-loving corporation is going to allow that.

Anyways, I'm all for digital distribution. I used to prefer hardcopies because I liked being able to have the box. The PS3s video/images/background music system it has for games far supasses as boring, flat, image on the case.

I'll probably write my own launcher to work with all my DD games on my PC, to give me the same experience as what I get on the XMB.

While I agree with you that this does not benefit the companies in any way at the moment, I think that users will figure out a way to do this and companies will have to follow or lose out on the deal.

I already play a game on xbox live...and when I'm done and finished I pass the rights to the game to my freinds xbox who gives me the digital rights to another game he bought... I know that its not meant to work like this, but since there is no other alternative at the moment for 360 users, this is all I can do. Since they use "microsoft, sony and wii points" there can be a way to allow re-sale of the game to which the seller would set any price and the console company would tack on an extra 100 points...that way everyone gets something.

This is how my digital euthopia would work. :)

 

 

 But why would someone buy a game first hand, when they could purchase it second hand and get it cheaper, with no losses in terms of quality.

What I'm asking is... why would any platform owner offer any service like this officially?

I think that game gifting, and guest passes (a la Steam) are the closesrt things we're going to get to your dream.

Shame.