PC as a gaming platform may not be dying but in shops...

to be honest I still go out to game, reason is that I m not in front of the PC plus I get a nice walk across town, or I drive often stopping at loads of over places along the way :D
 
the whole piracy thing when they quote the number of games that have been pirated interests me. For example someone said mw2 pirated 4million times. Bear in mind if piracy was not an option they would not have made anywhere near an extra 4 million sales. If piracy was not an option the people who pirate in most cases would not be able to afford to buy the 20 or so games they download a year. And so would buy less only going for the titles they REALLY want when they can afford it. I have no idea what the 'actual' loss is but throwing a number out there, maybe half a million units tops, instead of 4 million.

Same with any form of media, ie the news will say piracy costing the music industry 2billion a year when in reality if said individuals could not pirate they would only spend 1million on what they 'REALLY' want.

PS not condoning piracy at all. I bought mw2 via steam for example, i wouldnt want to make it 4million and 1!
 
High street just isnt the no 1 choice anymore to buy pc software since its far cheaper to buy online and you have loads of places to buy at the click of a button, pc game sales are in no way effected because the majority of pc users are online nowadays. Highstreet do still sell some pc games but thats for the small market of ppl who do not have the net perhaps or are just in the town anyhow and just buy on spare of the moment. So lack of pc stuff in shops doesn't effect anything with pc sales imo. And piracy, well we had that back in the spectrum days, early pc days, console days as soon as cdrw and consoles using cds then dvds. Nothing can do about it, games still make a profit just not as much without piracy. Piracy wont kill any industry FACT.
 
britboy4321 said:
Units sold.

I remember when places like BOOTS and WH SMITHS used to sell computer games. That's all ancient history.
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i remember going to my nearest wh smiths when they were trying to get rid of the last pc games they had in stock :) they were selling them for silly prices and i went home with about 8 games for £20
 
alle said:
...I want to be able to buy and play a game without having to rely on the internet.

Don't mind downloading patches at a later date etc but prefer single player offline games nowadays.

Buy an actual product from a shop and install at home without needing anything other than a dvd drive :) that still wins for me.
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you can burn your steam games to disk...

or put them on an external drive.
 
chaparral said:
Looks like i would only saved about 30p by buying COD:MW2 online..

I payed £30 for it in my local high street shop...
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I got it for £26 pre order from cdwow (although most of my clan members had finished the SP by the time i received it)
if i could have found a decent torrent at the time i would have pirated it .. game sucks without proper servers..
infinity ward don't deserve a penny of my money :mad:
 
I used to chat a bit with staff in my local Gamestation, having bought dozens of games there. The manager told me that the main factor in them stopping selling PC games was the much lower profitablity of the resale trade, caused by current DRM and a strong tendency for PC games to be re-released on budget labels quite quickly. So console sales and resales yield more profit per unit of shelf space. With the number of consoles (including handhelds), it's more profitable for a smaller store to not sell PC games at all.

Online purchase only is all very well, but it keeps PC games out of the public eye and that fosters (potentially self-fulfilling) prophecies of PC gaming dying off.
 
Think its more of a issue of them not selling enough when they get them in , most gamers have a internet connection and order online
 
Tefal said:
you can burn your steam games to disk...

or put them on an external drive.
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They're still not standard versions yet though are they? AFAIK they are still "Steam Versions". That and the sheer smugness of the "Steam > shops" crowd are enough to stop me using them.


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Retail version purchased online only.

Never ever going to pay premium "Steam tax" :eek: to have a digital download version when its quite easy to find patches which remove disc checks so I do not have to keep the disc in the drive when playing. You can easily buy online retail PC games for between £16.95-24.99 (depending on title) new @ release date.

Steam I will only ever use for the silly price deals or they have if a Valve game like HL3.

You have to wonder what effect these recent Steam deals will have on future retail PC games distribution as the main retailers will be very unhappy they were undercut so much. I spoke to someone @ Game a couple of months ago who works in the office (not retail side). He told me they still sell 35% of their entire stock on PC but its nearly all online sales apart from a few big shops in major cities :eek:
 
Thing I hate is that the second hand games market is being obliterated as a result. Some of the console bigwigs don't like the huge pre-owned games business in the UK either so console games could move to digital download as well.

Not happy with that. I don't want to be tied to games that I'll only play once.
 
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