Ilikemilkshake said:
bahumat42 said:
Ilikemilkshake said:
CardinalPiggles said:
GAME is pretty bad anyway, over priced garbage. As long as Steam and Amazon stay afloat, I'll be happy.
I've never understood this argument. I'm not saying GAME is cheap but Steam is almost always more expensive for both new and old games. Apart from sales that is which doesn't really count.
Anyway I hope this means independent stores stand more of a chance, and new more competitive chains opens up.. that's really the only good thing i can see coming from this closure.
that may be true (hint its probably not but for argument lets agree that it is) but even if it were true, it never had enough stock, the maximum number of goodd pc titles in that store at any time was a couple of shelfs worth. Compare that to LITERALLY hundreds of titles that are available online (hell indie titles are only available that way).
Game burned its pc bridges a long time ago, you will be hard pressed to find pc gamers who care about its demise.
I'm not saying Game is some kind of wonder store that stocked every title... It would be quite impossible to do so. However my local Game store at least, was the best place to buy physical copies of PC games, usually reasonably priced, at least £5 cheaper for most titles compared with steam.
If you're trying to say Game suck because they don't have as much as the INTERNET then i think you're being... *warning: buzzword incoming* ENTITLEDDDDD!
Kidding obviously but that's not specific to Game.
The trade off of a couple pounds difference (if you pre order titles you like anyway) is worth paying to be able to re-download your title at any point and having access to what you want without needing to go to a store (and pay however much travel expenses). Something a hard copy can't do once you lose it. (not to mention som of the draconian install limits (these still occur on d2d, but less often and less draconianly.)
I understand why people shopped at the stores, but i have only ever used them to kill time for the last 3 or so years just because more convenient options were always available.
If i want to play a game on release day now, i preorder and its installed by the day it comes out and i get to play.
As opposed to needing to go to town to get it, get home and install it (and patch it, increasingly the whole thing is downloadable anyway) and then play it.
Path of least resistance and all that.
And in reality if game does demise it opens up the uk market for some actual retail competition in that area, which it hasn't had in years. Competition is always good for us.
(and i don't hate game either, just their brick and mortar i dont buy from, i paid like 24 quid for a new bf3 off of them on release, as opposed to origins 45 quid pricing lol, and i got to play it before its official release ^^)
