The sales could be lower, but the cost would obviously be lower as well, meaning they can bring over very niche titles like Corpse Party, which they did.
The sales could be lower, but the cost would obviously be lower as well, meaning they can bring over very niche titles like Corpse Party, which they did.
but in the end that could cause them to not grow.
Haha, here come's Neph's backup
That's not funny.Originally Posted by Lumina
lol
Just add him to your "Ignore List" as well.
That is my feeling on the matter, nothing more and nothing less. Considering your the one who told me to go on these forums and now your ignoring me its abit odd
Shiz, you were the one who brought him? GOD.
Those are mostly very personal reasons of why I don't like digital distribution the way it is now.
I'm a video game collector. I have most PS2/PS3/X360/NGC/WII jRPGs on my shelf and a bunch of goodies from collectors edition. If I trash them, my room is bland and lifeless. They are a part of what I am. This may seem weird... but in a digital only world, I'd miss not only the game disc/cartridge, but the insert arts, boxes shapes and colors, manuals and everything that makes the Art of making a Video Game what it is... Putting it simply, to me, a game without a box is like an orchestra without a music conductor.
What irritate me most about digital the way it is handled now :
-I have no control over my games. They may disappear or stop working any day if someone at sony/nintendo or whatever think it is for the best. I would very much prefer if I broke my game disc because I was careless. I could blame only myself.
-DLC is something that could not exist before the digital era. They annoy me. Price-wise, content-wise, quality-wise. What the heck : DLC that comes out two weeks after release. Was it supposed to be included in the game I bought 60$? And now you want me to pay for it? Seriously? What a cheap way to make more money.
-I'm a dinosaur. And still believe that supply and demand is the way thing should work. Digital (the way it is now) makes everything limitless. This is not about pricing- because if no one buy their games, they will have to reduce their prices eventually- it's about collector value. Being able to sell back what you buy is something that I don't want to see disappear. I don't think my bank will allow me to put my digital games as part of my financial assets... so they are worthless in a way.
-Game quality, episodic releases, early access, exclusive, DLCs, memory cards, internet access. I don't think it's cheaper and a better experience for the consumer in the end.
Is it really future proof?
-OnLive, pricing, company control over their own games. Fear, I have a lot of fears.. for the future of the video game industry and I may not be a specialist, but I don't think digital will be beneficial for them in the long run.
In my perfect world, we would buy a Physical Copy of the game and be able to download it, or install it and play it without the Disc/Cartridge. You could back your physical/digital game up, trade it, sell it (and your download/install rights with it). We could play the FF VI we bought off SE digital Store or PSN or whatever on both our wii and/or our PS3. If AMD and Intel can coexists on a motherboards, surely someone can regulate the gaming industry a bit better. Yes you would have to register your games online and there would be a check every time you want to play without the game disc but would that be much different than needing an internet connexion every time you need to buy a game, and re-download it a hundred time because those memory cards are so damn expensive and you've ran out of HDD space?
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About localization... they can indeed bring niche games, but that does not necessarily mean they will bring more games in the end. Bringing more games could happen if they make enough money to hire extra translators. But to make money you release quick-bucks games or DLC dump, and we don't want Xseed to do that... right?
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Aaaaaaanyway. What really need to disappear soon are all these exclusives bonus available from one shop or one console.
For this Digital / Physical mess, I'll be waiting for the industry to adapt to what needs to be done. When I'll be in control (Can Buy/Sell activation/download rights for that game, back it up easily on non-proprietary devices, and have a way to still sell/activate it if PSN or whatever shuts down) I'll gladly get digital only games... and I'll be able to say that they are mines. But that most likely won't happen. I'm pessimistic and that's why I think the gaming industry will die with game streaming services.
Last edited by Fate; 12-23-2011 at 12:59 AM.
^ Very nicely said
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