There Is No Perfect Digital Distribution

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Originally Posted by epmode

Have you even looked at the PC market in the last few years? Digital distribution has overtaken retail a while back and digital-exclusive sales are all over the place. Incredible sales even.

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Yeah. I know. I was really mainly talking about console games. The PC physical copy market has been dead for years. It was dead even before legal methods of DD.

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Originally Posted by epmode

But yeah, it'll probably be a worse for consoles since I don't see the manufacturers allowing competition on their own digital store.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

that is 1 game.

I'm talking about how you assholes go to Target and buy ten marked down games that are only 6 to 12 months old. Are you really so dense that you think buying Duke Nukem for 5$ has anything to do with people buying piles of cleared out current games? Wtf is wrong with you?

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As you learn to spell and write, also look up "example." You could not be more wrong here. You should really just leave the thread before you further embarrass yourself.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

Yeah. I know. I was really mainly talking about console games. The PC physical copy market has been dead for years. It was dead even before legal methods of DD.

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I feel like I'm discussing something with a 10 year old in 1995.

Did you humiliate yourself in front of him too?

edit: On the bright side, this thread sucked before buttgills entered it, so at least he didn't ruin one for once.

Back on topic.

One good thing about DD is all the free games we get now. There are some pretty cool free MMORPGs out there. I think most of them operating by selling fancy items and stuff. As lame as that kind of is, it is still nice to have those games out there. It sure beats going back to the 90s and spending 60$ on a similar rpg experience.

The thread is a joke. DD is already here on PC and it is wonderful. As far as hacks are concerned, you can protect yourself. Get a card that you only keep money on for Steam or whatever. You can buy Visas that you put money on. Put a couple hundred on a card and go crazy on Steam. Steam isn't going anywhere.

Steam has both midweek and weekend sales... and then does crazy sales for the holidays and the summer. So anyone that thinks that DD doesn't have sales is grossly misinformed. That's not even including all the other distribution methods out there. MS sucked when it came to sales, but after Sony got their shit together and started doing good deals they really stepped up their games and started doing more sales and more frequently. They now have it weekly (although they usually aren't all that great, without the push from Sony I'm sure they wouldn't have bothered at all).

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

Back on topic.

One good thing about DD is all the free games we get now. There are some pretty cool free MMORPGs out there. I think most of them operating by selling fancy items and stuff. As lame as that kind of is, it is still nice to have those games out there. It sure beats going back to the 90s and spending 60$ on a similar rpg experience.

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I thought you were talking about console games?

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

edit: 4. As pointed out above, vote with your dollars to fix what you don't like.

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You may not own the content, but you still own the computer. And when you pay for the content, you should not have your rights to use it be interfered with. No hijackware like SecuROM should be included with the content. Draconian forms of DRM have never stopped the pirates. DRM vs. Pirates = vicious cycle.

I don't buy SecuROM infected games until the developer removes that shit. Far Cry 2's Steam version has had SecuROM patched out officially, despite what the store page says. Publishers: Just use Steamworks or GFWL instead. I don't bother cracking Steam or GFWL games, since the client would detect a modded EXE and there's no need to use one in these two cases.

FWIW, Serious Sam 2 is now available on Steam and this version has no SecuROM. After the purchase, I scanned it and it came up clean. Forget the disc version in this case.