thranx said:
green_sky said:
EA also blamed the retail space for high pricing of software but on their own service Origin. They control the pricing and distribution. Yet the games retail for the same msrp as they would on physical media.
If the companies are so pissed at Gamestop's of the world. Why do cater to their every need. Exclusive preorder dlc, not lowering price on digitally distributed software and further providing better sales than what we can find at retail.
It is practices such as these that make us skeptical towards what these companies are proposing. Plus PC's have a lot of competition now as to where you could buy software. I get better discounts from greenmangaming, amazon, gog, impulse (gamestop), etc on top of steam sales.
Not sure how the digital sales on consoles are going to work as far as competitive prices are concerned when you can only buy those games from psn (sen store), Microsoft store and Nintendo e shop. |
They do it because they have to work them to sell their games as more games are still in retail than in download. But as that changes and reatail loses its power they will loose their sway aswell.
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I just don't get it. They term them as the bad guys and yet cater to them as somehow they can't survive without them. Which is it though. If they go fully no used games than their relationship with retailers goes from 100% to 0%. There has to be some middle ground. Steam and pc distrubution took a chance and now you can't find many pc games in stores.
