errrm Full games on PSN???

ZXSpectrum · 10 Nov 2011 at 18:03

What the heck are they thinking? I saw Fifa 12 for £54.99!!! and it think Battlefield 3 was £57.99!!! :eek:

I nearly fell of my sofa! So digital download, no box, no disk, no resale value??? Are they dreaming???

OpenToSuggestions · 10 Nov 2011 at 18:04

I wouldn't buy them for that, but many people in the UK want the game right there and now and couldn't care less about money!

TheVoice · 10 Nov 2011 at 18:28

They can't price them cheap because the retail channel would complain. Plus when all said and done, there's nothing to lose; there's no real manufacture or distribution cost involved in the download versions so they're not going to make a loss if they only sell a few copies anyway.

DBT85 · 10 Nov 2011 at 18:35

Its not even anything to do with Sony. Its the publisher that chooses the price that stuff goes up there at.

They crazy, no way would I pay £55 for a Fifa game that is £33 elsewhere.

Yungstar 2006 · 10 Nov 2011 at 19:12

Todge said:
Its not even anything to do with Sony. Its the publisher that chooses the price that stuff goes up there at.

sony also have there own games up at similar prices.

yoyo50 · 10 Nov 2011 at 19:17

But when you can download 5 copys and sell them to your mates, its not so crazy split 5 ways is it?, i take it you can ?

Yungstar 2006 · 10 Nov 2011 at 19:28

yoyo50 said:
But when you can download 5 copys and sell them to your mates, its not so crazy split 5 ways is it?, i take it you can ?

its being changed so you can only download 2.
so i guess even at say.... £25, not bad. if you trust someone with your details on there ps3 that is.

daman288 · 10 Nov 2011 at 21:31

Yungstar 2006 said:
its being changed so you can only download 2.
so i guess even at say.... £25, not bad. if you trust someone with your details on there ps3 that is.

Hello any clue when/why its being changed?

DBT85 · 11 Nov 2011 at 08:15

Yungstar 2006 said:
sony also have there own games up at similar prices.

Then they must have enough data to suggest it is worth it. Either that or the brick and mortar stores are putting pressure on them by saying if its cheaper online we won't stock it. I wouldn't put it past them.

daman288 said:
Hello any clue when/why its being changed?

Because loads of people abused it. It was designed for people to have on every console THEY owned for example a parent with kids. Instead people banded together to buy a game at 1/5th of the price.

It got abused so it has been taken away. Hardly a surprise.

And its November 18th.

blitzwing85 · 11 Nov 2011 at 08:46

Regarding sharing a full game - I don't believe this is exactly possible. PSN games, yes, but not full games.

I'm basing this off the fact that I downloaded Warhawk on release, but 1 year later changed accounts and PS3s. Downloaded it again using original account then tried to play on new account - it was a nightmare.

It did work, but it's loicked to 1 account at a time. So if you shared the game, you couldn't both play it at the same time for instance.

That was only 1 game - but I would assume full retail games did something similar.

PSP games are extremely pricey yoo. £28 when you can pick it up in shops for £10 (new).

Regardless of price, I wouldn't even want to imagine how long it'd take to download on my internet connection. If I wanted it on release day they'd have to let me start the download about 4 days prior!! lol.
I could drive 25 mile round trip to Newcastle and buy it there 10x over by the time it would take to download