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Steam, Steam, Steam… What are we going to do with you? Continually throwing out bargains and making me buy them yet I never play them. This is thegenius of digital distribution for publishers and developers.
Let me take you back to about a month ago when Steam were selling S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow Of Chernobyl for around 5 Australian dollars! I have always wanted to try the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series so obviously I bought it. I own that game as long as I remember my steam account details, for 5 bucks. To this day I haven’t played the game at all; to be honest I don’t have it installed. But I own the game for when ever I feel like playing it.
Right now Steam has Counter Strike Source for 75% off; the usual price is $19.99 US. so to buy Counter Strike Source, one of the longest surviving multiplayer games with a large community is going to cost us Australians around 6 dollars. I'm going to buy that for sure, with no idea when I'm going to play it with all the games I currently want to play. But I will have the game when I want to play it.
You see this is what I love about the digital distribution future; I know I'm not the only one that just buys a game without any knowledge of when I will play it. This is making the companies money, it grows online communities and I have a game I wanted for a bargain price.
If Microsoft and Sony were to have real sales for their online games, not just $2 off or 200MS points off I would be buying a lot more of these games. Not only that, it would give the older games on the services a regeneration in the minds of gamers. How many times have you forgotten about a game until they announce its on sale? Or that the game has a sequel?
Microsoft and Sony please start to implement the Steam sale type system. It works, it has to considering that Steam is the No.1 Download service on PC.
Steam, Steam, Steam… What are we going to do with you? Continually throwing out bargains and making me buy them yet I never play them. This is the genious of digital distribution for publishers and developers.
Let me take you back to about a month ago when Steam were selling S.T.A.L.K.E.R. for around 5 Australian dollars! I have always wanted to try the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series so obviously I bought it. I own that game as long as I remember my steam account details, for 5 bucks. To this day I haven’t played the game at all; to be honest I don’t have it installed. But I own the game for when ever I feel like playing it.
Right now Steam has Counter Strike Source for 75% off; the usual price is $19.99 US. so to buy Counter Strike Source, one of the longest surviving multiplayer games with a large community is going to cost us Australians around 6 dollars. I'm going to buy that for sure, with no idea when I'm going to play it with all the games I currently want to play. But I will have the game when I want to play it.
You see this is what I love about the digital distribution future; I know I'm not the only one that just buys a game without any knowledge of when I will play it. This is making the companies money, it grows online communities and I have a game I wanted for a bargain price.
If Microsoft and Sony were to have real sales for their online games, not just $2 off or 200MS points off I would be buying a lot more of these games. Not only that, it would give the older games on the services a regeneration in the minds of gamers. How many times have you forgotten about a game until they announce its on sale? Or that the game has a sequel?
Microsoft and Sony please start to implement the Steam sale type system. It works, it has to considering that Steam is the No.1 Download service on PC.
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