I am so sorry but I have to be blunt here: they brought this upon themselves
They don't fall off as quickly as the sports games do but.. and just going by gamestop prices for which they'll likely give you a whopping 10% of what they'll sell it for yet retarded consoomers have refused to let this business fucking die(I need my resale value so I can sell it to gamestop for $2.50 and they sell it for $25 bullshit)
Sure it's an anecdote, but more people lining up for pokemon cards, and only 1 person actually showed up just for the midnight release of black ops 7 at their store.
Makes sense, though in fairness they've had plenty of earlier opportunities to remaster/port the game prior to Sony's public exhibitions of retardation. Though of course you're completely right that they might have had internal indications earlier than that of Sony's mental decline. What was that old chestnut from a reasonably-sane developer? Something like "a game launched in bad shape will always be bad, while a game launched late will only be late once"? Maybe they're waiting out the contract clock knowing a late delivery is better than a shitty one.
Damn ... I haven't seen a good midnight launch party in like ... two decades. Why are they still bothering? That shit was great back in the early 2000's, you had tents, fuckin' grills and cookouts, people made it into a god damn party. Hell, the decent store managers handed out water to make sure nobody passed out. Made it real fun and made sure people left happy.
. A 5-man turnout? I'd write to corporate and say "lol fuck you no, I'm not paying my staff to rot for hours after normal closing hours to sell a no-margin product to five people, this is bullshit."Absolutely. People want to say that physical media is still popular, I'd beg to differ with that. And remember, it wasn't just Madden and CoD that got midnight releases. Pokemon games, WoW expansions, Halo, Skyrim, Destiny, God of War 3, Gears of War, etc. You can find videos of all kinds of this shit from 2010-2015 and the lower turnout games would only have dozens of people and that's still more than modern Call of Duty. And it isn't like Gamestop didn't announce they were doing a midnight release for black ops 7, they did announce it.Damn ... I haven't seen a good midnight launch party in like ... two decades. Why are they still bothering? That shit was great back in the early 2000's, you had tents, fuckin' grills and cookouts, people made it into a god damn party. Hell, the decent store managers handed out water to make sure nobody passed out. Made it real fun and made sure people left happy.
Sigh... they don't do it like they used to
Soyney
I bought HL2 on release, still own the disc, so I can confirm that yes you were forced to install Steam to play it, and initially it required you to be online to run the game.
Because on PC Steam isn't the only store in town. You can buy from places like GoG that give you the DRM-free executable which is yours for as long as whatever you've stored it on continues to function.
You know what else they had? Tonnes of new IP. I think I crunched the numbers years ago with my PS3 collection vs PS2 and even back them the ratio of new original games versus sequels was hugely skewed. It only got worse with the PS4, and with the PS5 you could probably count completely new IPs on one hand.
Yes, is totally because of physical media not being popular, not because of the games being underwhelming.
Steam is like that too, but Valve won’t ban your account for wrong speak like the console manufacturers. And I hope that the console manufacturers get sued like Valve did to enforce a fair refund window. But having said that, I don’t know what is the current refund window is for Microslop, Soyny, and Big N.
Yep. So many new IPs came out during those days. Now, you rarely get anything new and it’s mostly just shitty sequel after shitty sequel.
"How could Valve do this???"
they will care after the injunctions bar them from selling it.
Imagine one day you get out of your apartment and walk down the street and everyone else just spontaneously pulls out a handgun and blows their head off.
I know multiple normalfags that impotently seethe at Valve on a regular basis, and they're always a Sony pony or Nintendie, always having to cope with something like "oh Nintendo wouldn't do this!" at anything Valve does, the amount of seethe fatass Gaben generates could power his yacht indefinitely.
9th gen is truly the no games generation.
Yeah, GameStop stopped selling games to sell funkopops.
It is, but the difference is I don't have to use Steam on my PC. Even if Gaben brings the hammer down on me all the games I have on GoG and Epic (free giveaways) continue to exist.
