| DarthVolod said: Can anyone explain to me what the advantage of doing this is? Maybe you love Mass Effect so you would want to keep the game anyways, but if this turns into a distribution system then the prices better be pretty low to make up for the cash back you could receive selling the game. Even if you are too lazy or afraid to sell on ebay or amazon you will still get 20-35 dollars at Gamestop, Bestbuy, or other retailers for your used game. Maybe if they lower the price of games to 20-30 dollars at release (not very likely I would imagine) it would sort of be worth it. I will never understand the draw of digital distribution. It just seems like I am paying more and getting much less all to avoid the minor inconvenience of driving to a store (which you will probably go past anyways assuming you work or go to school). If you preorder Mass Effect 3 and preload it (assuming they let you do that) then you will get to play it a whole 30 minutes to an hour before the midnight release folks who will have a copy of the game they can share, collect, or trade away for cash towards more games. Just seems like digital supporters are paying one hell of a price for virtually no advantage over physical. I get why publishers like it, but unless you work for EA it seems rather odd to support this. |
It has its perks, I have an absolute ****ton of SNES, N64, PS1, PS2, Gameboy and Ps3 games in my room that I'll never ever play again. They're taking up a lot of space, and in reality all I'm gonna do is sell them at like a car boot sale for like £1 each or throw them away. It's entirely pointless me having them - so DD is nice in that it saves a lot of space. It's the same for a lot of people. LIke I' move between home and university a lot and each trip I'm having to take a bag full of PS3 games... it's slightly annoying lol.
The convinience can be nice too, it's nice when you have **** all to do on a night in and can just download a new game or something. Albeit most pricing is rediculous it'll eventually come down to a reasonable price.
But yeah I think most people like me who want things to go to DD sort of believe that the pricing will become reasonable in the long term. It ultimately depends how they do it, but if the pricing is completely up to the publishers and it's just a competitive market then the prices will come down, as people will realise they can undercut the rest to sell more. In theory it should be less then whatever they charge through retail as the costs associated with the games are less, we'lll see what happens long term I guess...
