Sony going third party is an excellent idea for gamers.

[Chazore]

Azuren said:

Chazore said:

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Except Steam is the butt of jokes because that's what happens to those on top. You can argue and defend other clients all you want, but I don't see anyone losing their shit over Origin Summer Sales. Yeah, you need to use Uplay/B.net/Origin to play Ubisoft/ActivisionBlizzard/EA games, buy as long as people return to Steam to purchase the rest of their libraries (which it would seem an overwhelming majority does), then Sony's business strategy wouldn't work on PC.

 

As far as console manufacturers are concerned, only one of three current manufacturers has done so.

 

And hey, something we can agree on: PSNow will never be truly successful (at least not with the Internet as slow as it is).

Either way, Steam is the butt of the joke because of what it does and doesn't do, just like EA is the butt of it's own jokes for what it doesn't do vs what it does half the time. Both have their ups and downs at the end of the day.

I'm not even defending the other clients at all, just merely pointing out that people actually do use them, make fun of them and talk about them in general. I've no allegiance with any client out there. 

Actually I quite liked the last sale Origin had, because it had me going for all of BF4's DLC and getting some free to boot. Also getting the TF1 DLC for next to nothing as well as the SWBF Season pass for cheap as well. On the house program also gave me games I've wanted for years for nothing like Red Alert 2 and Theme Hospital. 

I'd say Steam sales have been becoming lacklustre over the years, gone are the days of flash and daily sales, replaced entirely with fixed sales that hardly change throughout the given sales event date. Now I mostly visit other vendors for cheaper prices like GMG, bundle sites or even DRM free like GoG. There are plenty of folk around the ent that feel as if Steam sales has lost it's spark and has become more of the same, but that hasn't stopped some of us from going elsewhere and finding better deals, that's the beauty of competition on PC, you are able to go find better deals somewhere else, rather than being confiend to a single store for the rest of your life. 

 

Sony's can work if they actually take pages from Steam's book. MS ignored taking pages and thought they had it all figured out, look where that landed them. EA took their ball and went home, then shat the bed for a few years and to this day they still let some of their IP's rot, so that's on them, not the market. Ubisoft has some weird symbiotic relationship with Steam, where ie wants people to use it's client, yet doesn't pull and EA and thus doesn't feel like it ever needs to improve.

As long as you take the good from the bad and plan accordingly, you can actually make something of yourself, rathert han taking what you think is the good end executing it in a poor fashion, then blaming the entire market than your own effort (really though, has blaming the market ever helepd anyone, is it right to blame others than your own effort 99% of the time?).

 

Yeah, I don't see PSnow taking off as much and going by the article and thread on Digital sales, some gamers here fear the digital age and game onwership, so they should be fearful of PSnow since you are paying to stream a game for a limtied time and thus you won't even have a slither of ownership to streaming said game. 

 

I do think Sony can make it though, just as long as they take the good parts of Steam, the good and bad times and then learn from them. Don't pull an MS and get super cocky and desire to wall people in, that lets off red flags way too early on in the game and sets up a bad image for the future.