There’s a long way to go in overcoming the potential hurdles digital distribution faces as a method of selling games. However, when considering the potential downside of a digital-only future, it might be best for those hurdles to remain in place as long as possible.
Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm
Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.
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Players can pay to edit their character, resurrect the dead and other actions.
Yet Helldivers 2 gets a pass? Y’know a GotY contender by the name of RE4 had them and so does Devil May Cry V. The funny thing is I enjoyed both of those games thoroughly without having to buy a single microtransaction.
What I do consider a valid complaint is not being able to start a new game or being able to edit your character. That’s kind of a seriously baffling decision, but then I think how I played Dragon’s Dogma 1 and I never edited my character and I just did a 100% playthrough on a single file and didn’t start a NG since. So, I don’t think these are really going to impact me, but I can see how it will others.
I was going to pay full price to support this game because I've been waiting for it for forever but I think I'll wait until I get it for free from Epic or a Humblebundle monthly.
I am not defending Capcom, as I am not a fan of MTX in single player games. I do however belive they were open to reviewers about having MTX in their game. The reviewers just decided to leave that part out. Which is very disingenuous. There are some companies that get away with these things. Image if this was done by EA, Ubisoft, or even Activision? I am positive those defending Capcom, would have had their pitchforks ready if the companies listed above did this
while in the US maybe is not that good, in other countries where retail is extremely expensive, digital distribution is a godsend.
i think more 80% of the games market is digital here on Brazil.
my hope is that the games market goes completely digital, it would be awesome.
DD is a doubled edged sword.
It's great if the prices for games go down, paying $100 AUS for a game is ridiculous, and that's excluding premium/limited editions.
On the other hand you have the problem of connection. Not all of us can afford the best plan.
Not to mention security. Hard copies on disc are reliable, what happens when the connection cuts out at 90 percent of a download? that's a big chunk of monthly data gone down the drain.
I can't imagine downloading tons of GB's with my 2Mbps internet speed.
For me its retail all the way.
there are many more reasons why it is good for the industry. can't wait for the day when you buy games digitally and you are able to play them across all consoles. i don't see why i have to buy a game twice if i feel like playing it on a different platform. if i bought skyrim on ps3 why should i buy it again to play it on the pc or 360 especially since they fucked up the ps3 version so bad. in a few weeks a get my pc then everything i do will be digital.
i hope we go all digital in a few years. got a 60/60megabit fiber-net connection with no limit. and Steam is a blessing.
all they really need is to spread and upgrade the servers so they don't overload so much.