certain high st game selling chain to stop selling pc games :(

Well it doesn't bother me that much since I very rarely buy from high street stores as you can get the games so much cheaper from online retailers.

I often found many high street stores selling games as 'new' when the copy you got was already opened without a factory seal.

I'm not sold on digital distribution myself, I can see why some people like it but I feel some of it can be a bit restrictive. If you buy a game on steam and it's a pile of turd you are stuck with it forever, with a physical copy you can always sell it on or burn it...........

Steams prices for new releases are a complete joke. Black ops was 40 quid on launch yet you could get it on a disc in a box with a manual for 35 quid including free 1st class delivery from an e-retailer.

I feel gaming in general has gone downhill in many regards, games are often released with content held back which is then sold even on release day for extra as DLC - points to dragon age: origins. The DRM is very restrictive in a lot of games, Ubisoft can take note of this. My biggest pet peeve is achievements/trophies, rather than have a nice big game with lots to do developers rush games and then think adding pointless achievements to extend the length of the game is acceptable, and rather than playing the game to unlock content ie beat the game on hard to unlock X,Y or Z you have to buy the DLC for it :mad:


/RANT
 
Id also bet that a lot of people spend money travelling to their local game shop. Buy themselves a drink and a bite to eat on the way, wander around other shops, maybe make impulse buys, then head home spending more than the inflated steam price :)
 
Steam still has its issues, such as effectively destroying any resale value of games and the often obscene pricing.

I rearely play on the PC any more but generally buy the hard copy where possible. In fact, I have bopught more Sims 3 stuff (for my partner) than my own games this year!
 
Who cares tbh? Games on all formats are often more expensive on the high street than online/on steam. I imagine they're only doing it because pc games don't sell in these shops. That's because more people are buying them online. It makes sense to me :)
 
high street shops buisness model seems to just be relying on people who cant wait for mail order and will pay £35 for PC game, they dont care about anyone else so its no loss

when I worked at Game in 2002 (while at uni!) they had 5 full wall bays of pc games, now my local game has 1 rack in the middle and thats it

plenty of online retailers sell games at very low prices, then in a steam sale hoover up anything you missed at bargain prices

who cares about resale value when you can buy a game like bfbc2 for £6.50!
 
This thread pops up a lot :p

For me, I haven't bought a game from a shop in a very long time. Even today the prices they charge are normally 10 pound up then online retailers like Amazon etc (usual's), that and with the Steam sales, ea store sales you just end up saving a ridiculous amount of money over someone who bought purely from stores.
 
simpletom said:
Steam still has its issues, such as effectively destroying any resale value of games and the often obscene pricing.
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The second hand market in PC has been nearly dead for a long time, and steam isn't the cause. It's a general trend by publishers to link game activations to accounts, so that retail shops can't profit of the second hand market. They are starting to turn their attention to console games - one publisher has tied the online component of some games to user accounts which is then disabled fir second hand buyers, until they pay an extra fee directly to the publisher.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
pc gaming is unoriginal at the moment full of console ports and makes console gaming worth looking at.
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Your playing the wrong games :).


The high street haven't been bothered about PC gaming in years and it comes as no surprise that some have stopped selling them altogether. They couldn't compete with online prices (DD & Retail) so shrank their shelving space to the point of non-existence. Cataclysm for example was £29.99 at a major high street game shop at launch, but I picked it up for £22 at a supermarket.

The high street game shop has now been reduced to a Wii Fit outlet. It's a little sad, but PC gaming has moved on, leading the way :).
 
arknor said:
its the store that were whining steam are taking all there sales the same store that in the late 90s was 80% pc titles then once the ps2 and xbox were released reduced pc games space to around 20%

its there own fault i hope they go bankrupt
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I agree. Moan about competition one minute, then just give up the next.

When retail dies, digital distribution will see better pricing as well as retail currently throw their rattle out of the pram if publishers dare to sell digital under the cost of retail.
 
Surfer said:
You have to remember some of us can remember a time when

a) Patches for games didnt exist. The game was finished and could be played with minimal bugs. You didnt buy a game to discover main features missing and that you were beta testing the game...

Absolute rubbish, many games were buggy. The only difference was that patches were on cover CDs etc.

in fact bugs were like easter eggs and were great fun!!
Don't be daft

b) DLC didnt exist.
No, but most games had an add-on or five. Many were dross.

c) You could easily sell, swap games with m8s no probs. Why? because you owned it and just passed them the tape/disc
Fair point, but nowadays most people who don't want to pay use torrents.

d) none of this limited activations, online security restrictions in games.
Many games required the manual every time you started the game e.g. Page 121, Paragraph 7, Line 2, Word 19.


its amazing games companies in the old days made any profit at all ehh....
Games are cheaper than ever, i paid £30 for the ultimate Doom on the PC in 1995 and £40 for tekken on the PSX.
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While I dislike steam due to the way games are tied to an account (R.E. MW2), I can see the advantages.
 
I haven't stepped foot into a video Game storefor around 2 years now, ever since they reduced the games they stocked on PC from a whole wall to 2 shelves in one day.
 
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