badgenome on 28 May 2013
| Carl2291 said: It was more why these publishers and developers feel the need to introduce it. The incompetancy of the higher ups and general shittiness of the situation. |
But they're largely the same publishers. As for your previous example about the price of Mass Effect 3 on PSN vs. Steam, I'm reasonably sure those are both EA's calls. So it isn't just about good publishers and bad publishers. Either they (or perhaps the platform holders) really are as averse to undercutting retailers too much with their digital prices, or the competition with the myriad of different digital distributors on PC forces prices down below where they'd otherwise go. Or a combination of the two.
