Downloads would be cheaper they said.

AWPC said:
The reason retail copies were great is also that if you pre-ordered they were usually £10 cheaper as it meant less work for the publisher when they have a known quantity to physically produce.

Now this digital only push means that has gone away & unless you have a decent broadband FTTC your going to have to wait days to download the GB's of data. Modern PC games are closing in on 40GB average install (thats a lot of data for many PC gamers in the UK still as many places cannot have superfast broadband yet).

As they tell us :rolleyes: physical is dying out & WB have agreed to manufacture the Batman Akham Knight pre-orders made on amazon.co.uk up to 30th March surely it does not hurt them that much to produce a few % of physical media for the unfortunates with slow internet!
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took me 2 days to download gta 5. that's ok though, the game isnt release yet, which is generally the case with preloading games. I dont think that's much of an issue but people will naturally have to play the game on launch day i guess!
 
mark43 said:
Umm no, this was specifically about the difference in price between physical and digital, not about PC pricing in general, (which is pretty great on the whole)
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Nope he was still complaining about the digital prices for Mortal Kombat X which has a pretty high price for the preorder more expensive than the physical copy. Way way in the beginning of digital media it was mooted by those in favour of digital games that it would lead to cut price cheaper games. Basically OP is saying it doesnt look like this is the case at all.

However when you look at the abundance of places to buy this at much cheaper digital prices than the one he marked (amazon) then you can see nothing to be concerned about.
 
other places such as where? CD key selling websites?

you do realise where they get their keys right? physical boxes

when physical ends for good say hello to only high digital prices and no competition
 
Well i'll be sure to post a thread wailing about it when it does happen. Not before then. Chin up its not quite the end of the world just yet :p
 
I find Steams offline mode a bit hit and miss. However, in the past week I've got keys for Alien Isolation and Shadows of Mordor for less than 16 quid and they are two of the best games I've ever played so you can't have it all.
 
At least give developers the 1 month grace period of actually being able to charge RRP for a game...

Consumers are expecting far too much and anyone of this forum is wise to tactics to get cheap version of digital games at launch. All you need to do is wait 2-3 months at it will be 75-50% off!

As for the physical vs digital it is usually cheaper on PC due to the limited numbers and install base. If they charged full retail price there would be almost zero sales and with physical boxes that means a lot of money going to waste. Also retailers can change the markup price quite easily or bypass tax laws and such from getting physical copies from other territories (same way cheap key websites work).
 
Digital libraries are much better. End of story. And games are as cheap as you want them to be if you have any patience whatsoever.

As someone else said, I really really miss, swapping discs in and out, waiting for the drive to kick in, trying to find discs and cases, typing in CD keys - oh and I lived it when for no apparent reason the drive stopped recognizing the disc.
 
Darujhistan said:
Digital libraries are much better. End of story. And games are as cheap as you want them to be if you have any patience whatsoever.

As someone else said, I really really miss, swapping discs in and out, waiting for the drive to kick in, trying to find discs and cases, typing in CD keys - oh and I lived it when for no apparent reason the drive stopped recognizing the disc.
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I remember a number of games that would crash if you took too long to swap disks. Sometimes you'd have to load an earlier save so you knew when the point was coming up and you could prepare yourself for the mad dash.
 
benjii said:
I remember a number of games that would crash if you took too long to swap disks. Sometimes you'd have to load an earlier save so you knew when the point was coming up and you could prepare yourself for the mad dash.
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Yeah I've had that happen, and then when my drive busted I bought a new one and 3 games no longer worked with it.

If people want to go back to CD's, why not go the whole hog and drag out the C64 and the tape deck? (if you go back that far...)

:D
 
It's not about going back to cds ....
It's about the same product costing less on what should be the more expensive format as they told us when digital first started but maybe that was before your time

We will cut out the middle men , we won't need to pay for expensive shipping and distribution , we can cut out the publisher and pass the savings on to you.

or something to those affects were spoken by gabe and all the rest at the time when steam first started, then he got fat from steam and became one of them.
 
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malachi said:
Hang on?!?!!? This is nothing new, I thought it was known digital versions of games cost more than retail because we live in this rip off country. In other countries such as the US digital games are cheaper than retail games.
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It's the same in the US too taking a quick look on Amazon, its definitely a case of publishers taking advantage
 
[TW]Fox;27900141 said:
They would have been cheaper if we didn't have legions of people queuing up to hand over money to Steam 'Just cos its on Steam'.

Look at GTA V, £10 more on Steam than competing services yet still people hand over money to Steam. Why would Steam reduce price?
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This unfortunately. Digital downloads should be cheaper but peoples rather odd love of throwing money at Steam won't see this happening :confused:
 
arknor said:
or something to those affects were spoken by gabe and all the rest at the time when steam first started, then he got fat from steam and became one of them.
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You'll have to take it up with the other publishers.

Portal 2 sold for £24 per copy on Steam.
Borderlands 2 £20 per copy on Steam.
 
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Darujhistan said:
Digital libraries are much better. End of story. And games are as cheap as you want them to be if you have any patience whatsoever.

As someone else said, I really really miss, swapping discs in and out, waiting for the drive to kick in, trying to find discs and cases, typing in CD keys - oh and I lived it when for no apparent reason the drive stopped recognizing the disc.
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Not sure what you're really getting at here; most physical copies of games can be activated on Steam, Origin etc so you get the same product and benefits as you would if you'd bought it for £10 more directly from said digital storefront.
 
The problem is that the same people dictating the price of these games, are the same people who dictate the prices of other media; they haven't understood yet that since the 90's, physical borders have started eroding, and that you don't need to ship disks across oceans anymore.

Oh well. Maybe if enough people pirate the product, they'll eventually get the message.
 
snowdog said:
Because this:



Beats a cluttered mess like this :


Especially installing over steam is far faster, easier, and most importantly, you don't have to sit there for it to install and change dvd's or enter serials or any other rubbish. Not to mention if you have multiple pc's and laptops.

I actually hate optical media so much I bought some games on steam I already owned retail!

It's worth a premium, imho. Only buy retail if they activate on steam now! Steaming works great for many games too ( where a little slowdown sometimes is not a problem), which means your old budget i5 laptop with Hd5470 can actually play modern games with graphics on high too!
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Loving the DOS copy of Transport Tycoon. ;)
 
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