Lets rant at Origin

[Bisjac]

As far as I know it's the big retailers like Gamestop who are forcing publishers to keep the same price for digital copies. Otherwise the retailers would stop selling disks which would then be a huge loss for the publishers...

so you are saying a store.... is forcing game publishers to sell the digital web download versions for the same price...
and how is that even possible/their business? stores dont have any pull or decision at all. they are the bitches.



publishers dont even like game stores anymore because they lose more money off console used trade ins, then piracy.

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[Buu]

And because gamestop is ran by jews who don't bother paying back game devs after someone buys a used copy, not even a dollar or few cents.

[Mr.jacksaunt]

And because gamestop is ran by jews who don't bother paying back game devs after someone buys a used copy, not even a dollar or few cents.

Um
When gamestop buys games, they own it.
When they sell the games they have bought, they get money.

[Tonkka²]

Um
When gamestop buys games, they own it.
When they sell the games they have bought, they get money.

Yeah but its like when someone pirates a game

The money that could have been given to the developers and so on is lost because someone got it in other ways.

[Bisjac]

thats why companies were in talks about forcing people to pay a fee to reactivate used games they put on their console.
everyone thinks its a money whore thing. but the publishers dont get a penny from used trade ins, andits a lost sale for them.

the solution is to just let game stores die. because digital downloading is pretty much better anyways.
but then you have the classic old school-like gamer who bitches that he should be able to hold a physical owned copy of things he pays money for.

BUT THEN 90% of that same guy's game library is all on steam. where he digitally downloaded everything and dosnt have a single disk. so hes caught himself in a lie.


at the end of the day. game stores are old fashioned, and not good for business on many fronts. they arent even good for the consumers.

[rockslide26]

The only problem with digital distribution is that you buy THE LICENSE TO DOWNLOAD THE GAME from Steam/Origin/Uplay/whatever. Unless you're good about making backups, unless steam's download servers stay up forever, eventually that game will be lost.
I don't disagree with you that digital download is superior, but it still is flawed

[Bisjac]

keeping your disk clean and undamaged is no different then the need to write down steam keys and make backups.

the media changes, but the common sense is all the same.

there would be computer nooby backlash if steam suggested (at every install you make) that you make a backup.
half these users dont even know what that means. or dont have disks or externals. or dont have parental permission to eat up yet more harddrive space.
you gotta dumb it down for the crowd. but the rule is all the same.

[Harm94]

My ideal of the ideal distribution system is that it just install's a copy of the game to your computer and can launch without the software being needed. Steam has one phatal flaw, should they go out of business every thing will disapeer. I've heard about there so called plan b, but are you really going to back up terrabytes of games?

As for ea, they wont be seeing my dollar any time soon since there butchering of cnc4 and the casualizing of Battlefield.

[beachbum111111]

They don't have a nice interface like steam. Etc etc.

Wait what? Origins interface looks far nicer.

[blockbuilder1]

This has turned more into a rant of either system for buying games.

[Tayasaurus]

99.8% of the time people who complain about Gamestop and other used/new game stores don't know properly how the concept of buying and re-selling works. lol.

[Cut Glass]

As far as I know, I've heard that EA's support service is like talking to a wall.

It is.

[AcornCake]

EA had to build their own gaming treehouse.
Not sure why.

[Talent74]

origin is a poopface

[Nickelob Ultra]

i actually don't mind origin except for when it doesn't save my passwords or autologin when i launch it, even though i click "remember me".