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

buchtis said:
Couldn't care less, the game is a piece of **** and I want my Beer money back.

A high street shop would happily do this, but will Steam..?

Time will tell my pets, time will tell...
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no idea what highstreet you go to but if the box has been opened you cannot return the item. If the game is second hand, you may notice that game and gamestation put tags onto the boxes to prove its been opened. You can no longer get a refund if you dont like a game, i should know i tried to return final fantasy the same day i bought that peice of **** and was told i can only trade.
 
Gimpymoo said:
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.
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This.

People here keep complaining about the prices on Steam, but it's the publishers that set the price.

MW2 being brought up as an example doesn't really work. Activision are the greediest publisher out there. They know they get more profit from retail sales than Steam sales (despite there being an actual physical product to produce), so the price on Steam is to encourage people to buy retail in that case.

Malazan said:
What on idiotic comment.
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Irony? He's entirely right. Digital distribution is the way forward, and not just for games.
 
The biggest problem with high-street retail dropping PC games is the lack of 'brand' awareness of PC games. As there's no one platform holder to promote PC games, as Microsoft used to do before the Xbox, awareness of PC games and hot titles amongst the general public will be very low.

In some ways Steam is becoming the official PC platform, so Valve really should start advertising Steam on TV and in print to ensure their market gets more awareness, otherwise I can see PC gaming becoming even more niche. :(
 
Malazan said:
What on idiotic comment.
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They speak the truth though.

One of the reasons digital prices have remained soo inflated is because of the retail stores so the comment is spot on in my opinion.

It is funny how people moan about digital pricing and praise retail stores when it is retail who indirectly keep the prices inflated.
 
i dont think in the last 10+ years i bough any game related stuff from the high street, either steam or online stores. So no huge loss for me. Also there hasnt been a time where i wanted a refund that i can remember (doesnt mean it has happened mind) i either get a demo or wait for a review (unless its games like civ or half life :D ). It is sad when things like this happen but highstreets were a rip off anyway.
 
Qdos said:
Surely it's easier for Steam to refund you than a High Street store?
Deactivate your copy of the game and recycle your key into the pool of available keys. They control your access to any given game, so it's not like you'll be able to play it once you get the refund. Of course, this is in an ideal world :)
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In the case of BC2, they actually simply cannot deactivate your copy. They can deactivate the game on your Steam account but your EA account would still have access to BC2 because the cd-key was attached to it. Now I don't know whether Valve has a deal with EA so that they can send a key deactivation request but even if they had, it's a lot more work than simply deactivating your copy in Steam.

I really don't agree with returning games that someone simply didn't like. Now if there are clear technical difficulties like with many of the older Steam games, then refund is clearly warranted.
 
fluff said:
Steam is where it's at. Bricks and mortar stores need to die.
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Steam is not where its at, at all.

I much prefer buying from a proper store, if not only for the fact it's actually CHEAPER in most cases to buy a proper retail copy from an actual shop with overheads than it is to download it from the internet. Whats with that?!

Hate steam - the less I am forced to use it the better.
 
Last time I bought a PC game in a shop it was probably 2001

Only buy 360 games in supermarkets when they are cheap on release day, everything i buy is online
 
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