If they remove physical copies I am going back to piracy, it's as simple as that.
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| Damnyouall said: Digitally distributed console games can't be given away, sold, touched, or even backed up, and they are locked to one specific console/account. You can never get back even a single cent of the moeny you paid for a DD game, and if your gaming console breaks down (say 10 years from now) you can't just buy another FunBox 3 and transfer your game there. Once the original distro channel is gone, you are S-O-L. |
If I download a game off of PSN, and theoretically suffer a hardware failure, I can log onto the Playstation Store, select that game, and re-download it. If I buy a physical copy of the same game, and while removing the disc from the drive I drop it on the floor and it becomes scratched and unplayable, I can never play that game again without re-purchasing it.
I totally understand where you're coming from, but physical distribution has downsides as well, and this is not a cut and dry issue where one distribution method is all upside and the other is all downside.
AndrewWK said:
What? never heard of it. lets compare. EA has Mass Effect, Dragon Age, SSX, Fifa, Command & Conquer and soon UFC And Sega has nothing interesting besides of Total War and Vanquish But this is not a Sega vs. EA thread. |
Then why did you bring up Sega.
To debunk your point though, Sega has Total War, which alone justifies their existance.
If EA never existed, we'd still have Bullfrog, Maxis, Westwood Studios and Origin Systems around. All companies that were more talented and made more fun games than EA. If EA bit the dust today, at least no more great game companies would get devoured and ruined by them.
I see you mentioned C&C earlier. Don't! Command and Conquer is dead.
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I resell my games when I'm done with them. So no thank you EA.
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KungKras said:
Then why did you bring up Sega. To debunk your point though, Sega has Total War, which alone justifies their existance. If EA never existed, we'd still have Bullfrog, Maxis, Westwood Studios and Origin Systems around. All companies that were more talented and made more fun games than EA. If EA bit the dust today, at least no more great game companies would get devoured and ruined by them. I see you mentioned C&C earlier. Don't! Command and Conquer is dead. |
I only mentioned EA because of the highlighted comment of yours. You know what? fuck it. EA is never gonna, and Sega propably very soon. Fifa alone makes them more money then all Sega games combined.
AndrewWK said:
I only mentioned EA because of the highlighted comment of yours. You know what? fuck it. EA is never gonna, and Sega propably very soon. Fifa alone makes them more money then all Sega games combined. |
Except EA has been losing a lot of money pretty much this entire gen...
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KungKras said:
Except EA has been losing a lot of money pretty much this entire gen... |
Not the entire gen. And if they have bigger financial problems they just close one of their studis 
Right, so EA just wants the full 40-60$ instead of the 20$ they get through retail. (no, EA games will not become cheaper, I bet)
When physical copies vanish I will stick to my "retro" then. I even hate them for only putting the disc in a case nowadays lol
Everything will be digital one day whether we like it or not. And we will never again really own something.
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. And there are so many games I don´t play but still are high profile, like the Sims, Spore, Battlefield, Crysis, Dead Space, Mirrors Edge and many more.
