@FritzDude: Thats a much more true statement. With such dominating services like steam and with windows live being relaunched with a whole new marketplace and whatnot its harder and harder to find a viable reason to sell pc games on a disc. With the majority of users having an internet connection its hard pressed at this point for publisher to look at a normal disc based option as a truly viable route other than games like bejewled or nancy drew.
@FritzDude: Actually no. From a business stand point when the customer wouldnt have bought the game otherwise they wouldnt have even had those 5 dollars. The reason why it works as well is because its a digital market and therefore much cheaper to mantain. Sega wouldn't have had 3.50 of my money if I didn't buy alien vs predator (the other 1.50 going to steam). If it was a retail disc I would agree with you, but because of the structure of steam marketplace and the different business avenue it works.
Lets say 400 people buy the game on sale. Thats 1400 more dollars in sales they wouldnt have seen otherwise. It also look better on a quarterly report when games that have stopped selling copies for the majority sell a decent amount in a sale period. More money given to them from older investments. It works for alot of people who design work.
I dont have OCD, but I understand quite well having ADD. People don't believe it exists even though its been proven through MRI while still using the term off the cuff to describe a moment where they're distracted, kind of frustrating.
Im pretty sure when world of warcraft makes 120,000,000 each and every month still from its 8 million subscribers kkinda makes more money than blops can :P
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