| fighter said: Steam nor Origing allow re-selling of games. And we have had "news" of publishers wanting to extend the same model to the consoles since last (current) gen happened. |
Neither does XBL or PSN purchases. This is the point, they have the system in place already with DRM. They just had to make it more appealing to download titles instead of buying them on a disc. At the moment, buying on a disc is better because of the things you can do with it, even if it comes to down to trading it in. But with a digital copy costing the same if not more depending on current high street pricing wars, it not appealing at all to download a game.
Steam and Origin have competition with each other as well as other markets to make games cheap, make them appealing to buy digitally (same goes for itunes/digital7/amazon MP3 etc). DRM wasn't a huge issue for these types of markets digitally as prices were good and competitive, when there is only 1 store selling the product they control the price and fixing is involved. In the UK there is a RRP of £50 for games, competition between supermarkets and high street means games are rarely above £45, most are £40 new. But PSN and XBL stores list them as £50, the RRP. There's no competition so they don't do competitive prices.
Until this changes, buying phyiscal games will be more appealing to the customer. Then if they make it competitive, they can add DRM to control piracy.
Hmm, pie.
