Monday, Mar 21, 2005
Tommorrow I'll be picking up my first WW2 game since BF 42 months ago and I'm not sure what's cooler that i'm getting the game or that I'm getting it digitally. It's pretty nice not to have a extra box and more trash to take up very rare space at my apartment. My Preorder bonus was the original Splinter Cell which i've already played on the xbox but the PC version is so much better with the quick saves making for a great deal less frustrating gameplay.
But back to the main point digital distribution is the wave of the future. I mean seriously why should you have to go out to the store to get data. I mean that's what you're doing when you go out to the store and buy a cd or a game you're going out and acquiring data. I buy all my music via Itunes nowadays, I go online buy a single song and it's mine. Every so often I back these up in case of emergencies to a CD.
Games are even better, my first experience with this was Steam for HL 2, it went all smooth and perfect, I had the game as soon as it was available in stores and was playing it the next day. My Second experience with this was splinter cell just the other day, i downloaded it, surprisingly quickly. It was ready, it was there, it played well, no trash to take out, no boxes and cds to store no cd keys to worry about. Furthermore I backed up the installer but even had I not, i'd be able to download it again from anywhere.
Now I know some you aren't ready for this, maybe you'll never be ready some of you like the experience of going out to the store and buying a box and getting a bunch of stuff that I never even look twice at generally. I'm not against all games being released to stores for as long as people keep buying them. I however would much prefer to just download my data. I've bought more music since I got ITunes then i'd bougght in two years before that because it's simple it's conveniant and it's just cooler than taking a big long trip out of the house to a music store and putting up with the jackal behind the counter. If publishers put huge swaths of their catalogues up on the net for sale I surmise that you'd get more sales that you're missing out on for a variety of reasons at the store.
But back to the main point digital distribution is the wave of the future. I mean seriously why should you have to go out to the store to get data. I mean that's what you're doing when you go out to the store and buy a cd or a game you're going out and acquiring data. I buy all my music via Itunes nowadays, I go online buy a single song and it's mine. Every so often I back these up in case of emergencies to a CD.
Games are even better, my first experience with this was Steam for HL 2, it went all smooth and perfect, I had the game as soon as it was available in stores and was playing it the next day. My Second experience with this was splinter cell just the other day, i downloaded it, surprisingly quickly. It was ready, it was there, it played well, no trash to take out, no boxes and cds to store no cd keys to worry about. Furthermore I backed up the installer but even had I not, i'd be able to download it again from anywhere.
Now I know some you aren't ready for this, maybe you'll never be ready some of you like the experience of going out to the store and buying a box and getting a bunch of stuff that I never even look twice at generally. I'm not against all games being released to stores for as long as people keep buying them. I however would much prefer to just download my data. I've bought more music since I got ITunes then i'd bougght in two years before that because it's simple it's conveniant and it's just cooler than taking a big long trip out of the house to a music store and putting up with the jackal behind the counter. If publishers put huge swaths of their catalogues up on the net for sale I surmise that you'd get more sales that you're missing out on for a variety of reasons at the store.
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