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Onyx Jaguar wrote...
Its better to purchase used games off of Amazon and Ebay. No reason to go to Gamestop
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MerinTB wrote...
No, please, I respect you Ryzaki, even if we disagree on some things now and again. And I bet that drunk you could make a far more coherent response to me.It is here. What's to avoid? We are only going to become more digitally connected, not less, in the future. Bandwidth allocation will increase. Speed will increase. Storage and computing power will increase. These are basically givens.
CD sales are dropping. DVD sales are dropping, and not being replaced by Blu-Ray at the same rate. Land line usage is dropping. Print newspapers are dying. Book sales are dropping. Brick 'n mortar stores are failing. Heck, the really poor rental industry is facing huge hits with the success of streaming services like Netflix and Hulu.
Digital is here. The tv signals are all digital now.
How do you think the genie will be placed back in the bottle?
All we are waiting on is an increase in bandwidth, an upgrade to our network connections if you will. Once it becomes quicker to download a movie than to drive to your local retail store to pick it up and drive back home, it's a done-deal.
The price problems - with physical copies and digital copies costing too close to the same amount - will work itself out as the digital market grows. Or should. I shouldn't underestimate corporate interests trying to pocket all the savings of digital distribution.
Things change, even in the computer gaming industry. You used to get games on floppy disks and computers had no HDD. Console games came on catridges. I remember people not wanting to waste their small HDD space with installing games when the first HDD's came out and game-size grew. I remember Nintendo fighting against CD based games all the way to the Gamecube and finally losing that fight.
I'm curious as to what criteria or evidence you have that digital distribution WON'T take over brick 'n mortar sales? Are you a console gamer and therefore you've not noticed that PC games have all but disappeared from store shelves? That ain't because PC gamers don't buy games anymore.
Onyx Jaguar wrote...
I collect Video Games. Gamestop puts stickers and other crap on them. They are also more expensive. I've only gotten burned three times and one time I was able to get a replacement.
Ebay listers often have pictures of their product, and if they don't they have descriptions. If not do not bit. On Amazon if you see a powerseller and they say "like new" you can safely take their word for it. Also Amazon will often have brand new copies of games that are cheaper than what Gamestop is selling as used.
For instance when ME 2 came out Gamestop and Gamers upped the price on used versions of the first Mass Effect when you could still find it in store like best buy for 20 bucks.
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With things like prices/internet speeds/content delivery as they are, I agree to a point. I know there's the argument of "But what if *service* goes down in so many years and I'm unable to play *game*?", but Steam (at least) has procedures in place to authorise all content when it goes down at some point in the future, and more and more companies are removing DRM after an amount of time.Ryzaki wrote...
Eh. The day things go completely digital is pretty much the day I pretty much go screw it and stop buying games. That said that's just me so /shrug
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