Local game shops would've low-balled him to death to get those games, just so they can mark them up. Better to dump them at GameStop who'll take anything game-related just about, than wasting your time arguing with an auctioneer.
A collection that size should have been sold piecemeal on eBay, no question. This dude lost a metric fuckton of money doing it this way. Gamestop blasting his antics publicly far and wide is just an added humiliation ritual.
If he's one of those people who are like "I just want these games off from me, I don't care" then yeah I'll side with him. But if he came into this thinking he was going to get a bargain, I'd agree with you.
Yeah I get you, but I'm not really trying to solve the issue. I'm saying consoles are fucked and the sooner people make the transition to alternatives (or learn to love Bing Bing Wahooing) the better off they'll be.
On the contrary, it got those damn kids "off my lawn" and out of the parks. And all those digital purchases fueled the "line goes up at all costs" investment strategy most of them cling to. Might even argue it was planned, or at least a happy side effect for them.
I aint clicking anything from that down syndrome looking retard. Dude looks like Dj Khaled's 47 chromosome cousin, Dj Special ed.
The difference is that Valve basically bruteforced thier way into thier dominance by forcing anyone buying thier games through physical discs to deal with Steam and all of the alternative PC storefronts/services from Games for Windows Live all to way to Epic Games Store and GOG are ethier shit and incompetent or too niche to matter, while the three big console makers introduced digital storefronts in the 7th gen and progressively tried to phase physical out to varrying degrees.
Valve gets away with it because PC competes with piracy. Gabe Newell said that piracy is a service problem, not a pricing problem, but if that was the whole truth PC games would be as expensive as console games.
So, I'm pretty firmly in the "Steam/Valve are the lesser evil, but imperfect" camp, not a full blown dickrider like a lot of people. PC gaming in the leadup to steam taking off was in pretty dire straits. While I'm not against piracy in the slightest, the ease of it on PC at the time lead to it being rampant in a way that's almost hard to explain to someone who wasn't there. In response, a lot of publishers either started going exclusively to consoles, or, they'd have an utterly obtuse proprietary launcher combined with activation codes in the box and a whole host of shit that either lead to people ignoring the pc release, or waiting until a crack was available, making the problem worse. As Gabe is often quoted, the only way to really combat this was to make a service more convenient than piracy. Given how much freedom pc gives with things like modding, saving pc gaming itself by sacrificing physical discs was an unfortunate but I believe necessary sacrifice, especially given how compromised physical pc discs had already become by that point.
Hasnt steam also admitted that if the service were to ever go away for any reason they'd give people advanced notice to download their games so they can play as many of them as possible for when steam goes away?
It does also amuse me in a way how many AAA Publishers/Developers tried making their own launchers, only to almost all come back to Steam. Shit, the Epic Games Store basically survives off being a Fortnite Launcher.
>Valve did uPlay and Rockstar Social club first and
As opposed to consoles not having piracy? Wtf? I won't even mention Nintendo, but since this is the Sony thread, *every single* PlayStation generation has had piracy as a mainstay of the platform through various means.
Indeed it has, what few remember now that Steam was universally hared when it came out and was derided as a buggy piece of shit that prevented you from playing Half Life 2 and CS
