It would be amusing to see what would happen if Walmart saw this and said "looking to cut us out and go all digital? Okay, let us help you. We're not going to carry your product this year. Let us know how that works out for you."
Marketing Research Firm Challenges EA's "All Digital Future"
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I agree with you, except that EA is selling their shit on Origin for full retail prices...Draech said:
For example, they still have the nerve to charge the full price for ME3 and it's collector-editions as if it was just released, while it's already down by twenty bucks in stores......
The cheaper product has the edge, in fact EA is actually working against the "all-digital future" which they are trying to promote. Can anyone explain to me how that's supposed to make sense?
Besides, this ain't a kneejerk reaction to the claim that the future will be all digital, everyone agrees that this is quite possible, but trying to prove this by blatantly lying to your customers and pissing on your partners, is just a new form of stupidity... we're all used to being lied to by big companies, but that they're being so goddamn stupid about is new...
As of late, EA seems to only be good at two things, contradicting themselves, and talking crap.
EA made an announcement?
EVERYBODY QUICK LETS IMMEDIATELY CLAIM THAT EA IS WRONG!
sure EA doesnt have the best track record with the rest of the gaming culture.
But that doesnt mean they cant be even slightly right sometimes
but for my 2 cents. EA is indeed partially wrong
the much sort after FPS market is 90% douche bro-dudes and annoying little kids who wont buy it digitally and for that reason alone physical media with prevail for quite a few years to come.
EVERYBODY QUICK LETS IMMEDIATELY CLAIM THAT EA IS WRONG!
sure EA doesnt have the best track record with the rest of the gaming culture.
But that doesnt mean they cant be even slightly right sometimes
but for my 2 cents. EA is indeed partially wrong
the much sort after FPS market is 90% douche bro-dudes and annoying little kids who wont buy it digitally and for that reason alone physical media with prevail for quite a few years to come.
Uhm, I was actually pointing out that steam-prices are NOT more expensive than retail.Draech said:
I fail to see the "retailer-conspiracy" with that... Sure, you could argue that they might "prevernt" them from lowering the price below retail, but that doesn't really explain the extremely high prices on Origin when compared to retailprices of the same game.
It only leaves me with two possible conclusions:
EA is just a big, faceless, moneyhungry company, or they are even more stupid than I had thought agreeing to a deal where they could be forced to keep the "launch-price" of a game while the retailvalue drops by about 50%.
Actually, make that three possible conclusions, it seems likely that both scenarios are true.
Steam is still locked into the retail price as set by the publisher/owner. Steam works well with publishers and has a ton of data about how big sales move more games you move more games you get people cluing their friends into those games and you see a bump in sales long after the end of the big sale just via word of mouth generated among gamers. they been doing this stuff a long time and have mined tons of data about how sales work and how well they work.Sesambrot said:
But they still have to follow the msrp of the publisher they cant take dragon age 4 on steam sell it for 30 bucks release day when its 60 on origin and in retail stores, even smaller games they have to go with what the owner wants, but a few cases where vales actively urging a game to undersell itself in the indy side has made some games more massive hits than they would have been because they were such good value they sold 10x more units than they expected, and made more profit as a result.
Every publisher is dreaming of full digital how could you blame them? it will crush the middleman, outside of the pirates that manage to hack this stuff they probably will make a mint, but your retailiers the smaller chunk they get and its moved into EA's hands or activisions or whoevers that is 100% pure profit, no packaging no dvds or blu rays to burn, the biggest costs are tech support.
in EAs case that would be a major cost because their customer support is quite possibly the only one where the customer is always wrong until you can come up for detailed documentation proving you in fact own the game in question and even if you get assurances to one thing or another out of them there is 0 guarantee anything will come of it.
Really hope origin dies a flaming death however there is no way i want EA data mining my personal information, my gaming habits via their service, i know value/steam does the same stuff but i trust value a million times more than i trust EA to use any of that information for good.
long live steam, and direct2drive
OF course EA wants a 100% digital distribution model; it's easier to get away with DRM and other bullshit because you had to be online to get the game in the first place, and they could get away with charging retail distribution price.
It's the model that lets them bring us frogs up to a slow boil without jumping out of the pot.
It's the model that lets them bring us frogs up to a slow boil without jumping out of the pot.
