FilaBrasileiro said: Answer me this:
1) Companies are not losing money, how the fuck is that so hard to understand. This is marketing dollars that will be spent anyways, and raise awareness of the game. It would actually be more expensive to put a demo disc on a magazine like they used to make. That money will be spent any ways. Do you even know what losing money is, instead of spending money? 2) How the fuck does that affect you as the end user? 3) How the fuck does that make PSN any worse if it's still getting content frequently? 4) You're making a big deal out of the .16/GB and going away from PSN service as a whole for the end user (fuck it you don't know how it is because you don't own a PS3). Should I start complaining about multiple discs that I buy for my 360 because MS charges royalties per disc? |
1. But the point is the marketing dollars could have been better spent. And for the Xbox 360 version they still WILL be better spent. Therefore a PS3 game could potentially have LESS awareness than it otherwise would have because publishers have to factor in bandwidth costs. There aren't many companies that still routinely put demo's on discs...
2. Because sooner or later some content somewhere is going to stay off the PSN because of bandwidth fees, it probably already has. Not to mention paid content is probably going to get a little more expensive to account for the costs in time.
3. It doesn't make the PSN bad, but it does make it less good due to lower amounts of content and higher prices.
4. You can argue that this isn't a big deal, but you cannot argue that it is a good thing or even an even thing, as it will certainly have some negative effects. Feel free to argue how negative they may be. As for the MS disc thing? You're correct. Some developers may slightly downgrade an experience because of excess charges. Such as RAGE developers making the game two discs with compression instead of three discs without it. But the instance is FAR lower than it is with the PSN issue, and any GOOD game getting multiple discs will no doubt do so for free in order to keep it on the Xbox 360 (FFXIII for example).