@BLIPS76:Wow!
I'm really amazed (and pleasantly surprised:) at how similarly the two of us see & feel about this issue
I mean, I'm sure that there are others who see things (*and*
*See What's Coming*) the same way that you & I do...*BUT*, I fear that we are greatly out-numbered :'(
I mean, IMHO, there's a pretty damned easy solution and/or
*COMPROMISE* that could/would resolve these problems concerning the differences between what the producers/publishers want, what the gamers (the ones who will stop buying & supporting *ANY* and *EVERYTHING* that offers nothing in a physical format and takes away our *RIGHTS*to ownership, lending, selling, buying, trading, and yes...even re-selling - if we wish to) want, and what the other group of gamers (the one's who are in favor of/looking forward to a "more convenient" and (supposedly) less expensive format where everything becomes 100% *digital-only* vs. 0% (*Ownership*/*Physical*) mediums...
My (and, btw, I'm *FAR* from being a rocket-scientist or genius or anything like that) "Simple" solution that would take all 3 groups into account, while, at the same time, giving & providing each one of those 3 groups w/ *exactly* what it is that they want...
My "Answer" is simply this:
Do Them...ALL Since the pubs/producers want to cut-down on the amount of used games sold, and since there's (*obviously*) a large enough group of gamers who will be satisfied w/ a strictly digital-only format to be viable & profitable to those pubs/devs...*BUT*...What these (I would think some-what, at least; educated executives) seem to be missing...or...possibly just...*
IGNORING*...
Is that there is *ALSO* another (largely profitable & viable demographic) - that they will be losing in their entirety :
*THOSE OF US WHO ARE DONE & GONE THE MINUTE THAT THE OPTION TO GAME W/ PHYSICAL GAMES THAT WE ACTUALLY OWN (ONCE WE'VE FORKED OVER OUR CASH TO PAY FOR THEM).
So, here is my proposal (& explanation) of what I meant when I said to "just do it all":
- Using todays' average cost of a new AAA PS3/360 game of ~$60
-If they can make their digital games so much more cheaply (and save *the consumer* $ (which, *I* wouldn't believe until I saw it) - and even if I saw it - I would certainly never have any amount of trust/faith in any of these companies *not* to raise the prices of digital-only games down the road)/by which I wean, why the hell *
wouldn't* they raise the prices of new games to outrageous & obscene amounts once they've taken/we've given-up & surrendered all of our rights & demands for physical ownership?!
But, say I'm wrong -and- these companies *Really* want to do nothing more than make games available to gamers for lower & more reasonable prices...just out of the goodness of their hearts & their over-whelming care & consideration of saving their customers money...
Fucking Awesome!
Do IT!
Make, say, Uncharted 4 available to everyone who wants it digitally for $30.00 (They'll be thrilled to "own" the digital code -I mean "version") at 1/2 the price that it woulld have cost them before!
NOW...Make it available to those of it who want to be able to touch, hold, and see lined-up on our shelves these items that we worked, saved, and made sacrifices/cuts in our lives to buy *
PHYSICALLY*
...for the same old $60...I'd pay the difference to hold onto my right of ownership.
And seriously, the gamers who *want* the games "Only-Digitally" for lower prices...aren't gonna' be the ones looking to buy used copies anyhow.
I know/I know...and I apologize in advance againg for yet another one of my:
/*RANT*ing/*BLOGS*.