aragod said:
Because if you wont support them, they will stop making games, it's that simple. If the game isn't worth full price, DON'T BUY IT, noone is forcing you. I really don't need a lecture about market theory, thank you, I've got masters in it. The comparasin between cars and video games isn't very good, it's like saying that the property market is stagnating because people don't want to live in houses. First of all there is a huge difference between price points. Second, you need one car, but "many" video games. Third, you can't do without a car today, while you can do without videogames. Fourth, many video game developers are "freelancers" while all car manufacturers are gigantic corporations. Fifth, video game developers may put out one title in two to five years periods, that's their only prodcut, if you won't buy it, they might close (look at Activision closing up studios recently, just because their music games didn't sell last year), on the other hand, car industry is a large factor in state economy, so you won't see them closing as easily, because there are jobs, contracts and large tax income for the country. |
Exactly! If there are not enough people to buy the games the company will go bankrupt. And if no one buys goods from Wal-Mart then Wal-Mart will go bankrupt, too. So what? 
If the company produces games only a handful of people would pay for it's their own fault. Again that's how the market works, if you've got masters in it or not. What you say is that you like this company and want to support them. That's fine of course but not all people like certain game developers enough to support your argument. In fact only a handful of people does. You can't just skip the whole free market thing just because you like a company. Instead developers could try to decrease costs and make their games more mass market friendly instead of punching customers and telling them what to do and what not.
Oh and I was just using cars as an example. Of course they are not the same as videogames but it would also make "sense" for car manufacturers to act the same way as people would be forced to buy new cars. That's all I wanted to say. And again it would only help the industry but not the customer. "Industry forcing people to buy products new because it helps the industry". That's all. It was in no way related to the things you said above. You could apply that to any industry: If you force customers to buy only factory sealed products your sales will increase. That's all I said and I'm sure you will agree with me here.
