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"UK Game Retailers" to boycott Steam games

Created 11th November 2010 @ 10:53

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CrashSite

RIPMOULD

Well, game developers will also prefer to develop for platforms where it is ‘harder’ to pirate. It is an issue that will drive companies away from PC’s as a platform. It is now all about marketing to families as they have been an untapped market until the Wii came along.

boomeh

Tplay

Quoted from infussle

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Does it not seem absolutely pathetic that companys think they have a natural right to a proportion of the market, if they did or plan to, if they are offering a worse service to the consumer. It pretty much sickens me to put steam and itunes in the same bubble. Apart from good and bad monopolys. Who cares if steam are doing a perfectly fine job of running the retailing market for games? Im sure if steam were not providing a satisfactory service, another leading competitor would take their steam, because thats how a free market should fuction. If people were sick of the additional advertising steam do, people would move. But actually its one of the few advertising mechanisms which is bareable.
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Who cares about small retailing businesses, they are a thing of the past unless the big companies are not providing a good enough service. For example itunes offer a shit service, and i would rather buy vinyl, even if it costs more or even go to the length of coding an alternative (foobar). Again, steam support small companies if their product is good enough. Just look at the makers of world of goo etc. This encourages competion within the developing market which is only a good thing.

edit: who cares if i can further myself from people who choose to play halo, and the people associated with them. twisted play anyone?

whys every man got beef with twistedplay


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Ramown

TIDS

Quoted from boomeh

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whys every man got beef with twistedplay

boomeh

Tplay

Quoted from Ramown

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ramown stay out of this you’ll just end up getting shot

Sketch

MM

sadly retailers pushed pc games to the very back of the store about 8 years ago. they dont stock latest titles at competitive prices. and the guys in there couldn’t even tell you how to build a basic pc, on which to play said latest titles.

Sketch

MM

Quoted from Sketch

sadly retailers pushed pc games to the very back of the store about 8 years ago. they dont stock latest titles at competitive prices. and the guys in there couldn’t even tell you how to build a basic pc, on which to play said latest titles.

thats when they lost our business. not because of steam. people started downloading games long ago because retailers were simply not stocking them. or they were overcharging

wtf edit and quote are next to eachother! who the fuck knew! :D


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RareSpycrab

Quoted from Cloud

Need a new “quake”, not in terms of gameplay, but in terms of popularity.

We do. It’s called minecraft and its not even in beta yet.

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buying keys > all ))

Sketch

MM

Quoted from RareSpycrab

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We do. It’s called minecraft and its not even in beta yet.

+1 oooh can minecraft have pvp?

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