High street game shops coming to an end?

[jj]

What is defo going to spell then end of high street stores and also some online models is the move towards the big game producers to stop games being sold on.
 
A lot of them now come with a code you can only use once.  If you sell the game on you either cant play online or you have to ask for new code and pay some money.
 
Now i know this been the way with PC games for long time, but this will kill the second hand market on the consoles and this is where Game, gamestation and a few smaller outlets make their money

[jj]

I can't say I will miss Game. It has always been a bit bland and overly corporate to me.
 
To be honest I have never forgiven them for replacing Electronics Boutique, a favourite of my childhood
 
Gamestation I have always loved. When the first one opened in Edinburgh it had masses of retro games and until I moved away around 6 months ago they still had a selection (the section had diminished considerably since the game takeover) and it was possible to get some interesting stuff - I bought a PC-Engine there once. Also, as a result of their lack of market knowledge and generalised pricing it was possible to pick up some real bargains, although this did begin to tighten up.
 
The news isn't surpirsing as the others have said the times they are a changing and these companies never really managed to stay in the game.
 
It's a shame for the staff though who are the ones that will suffer the most.

Gamestation is owned by game.  part of the problem is that Game paid well over the odds for gamestation

[jj]

I too have fond memories of going into Game to buy Amiga games with my pocket money, but I can't truthfully say I'll miss them. I haven't bought anything on physical media (music, games or movies) in at least 5 years, everything is downloaded, and actually having a disc now just seems so inconvenient and retro to me now. I think the Game group just outlived their usefulness and failed to move with the times by not morphing into an online business like Steam.

I buy a lot of didigital media on my 3ds, xbox, psp, kindle , itunes, steam
 
what annoys me though is I can not somehow make these not work and sell the copy on, or leave my digital media to anyone in a will

[jj]

As a developer I am very happy with the new download model. It basically cut piracy off in a single swoop, the downside is tht you sell your software for less, but you do make
More sales.
 
As a software user, I'm happy to not have to worry about losing my disks, or having a massive box to put somewhere... But I'm am at the mercy of the distribution platform... Steam and iTunes for me.
 
As a child I remember rushing to HMV to buy the latest Album by my favourite band and the whole ritual around experiencing new music, and as such I lament the loss of the "album", iTunes has killed the last vestige of music as an artform... It's nothing more than an entertainment commodity now.
 
I'm not sure how this new model will affect games, but be sure it have an effect :-/

I know what you mean. I more or less buy all my music on iTunes these days, but I do still like to by the occasional album that I feel is specail to me on CD.
 
I even bought some newly released music on Vinyl the other day.  You really cant beat vinyl packaging it just feels so real.  Maybe it my age.

[jj]

What is all this crap where certain words automatically make links to other websites ?  How long we had this on amiga.org.  Dont like it

[jj]

Could be the old thing.  I buy Vinyl for things that I know will be mastered well, but I download other things that are wall of sound or with low dynamic difference.  As for video games, I am a steam/humble bundle user pretty much exclusively.  I do miss cartridges tho!

Know what you mean. Made me laugh when they were selling the remastered pink floyd box set on iTunes. How that work

[jj]

Just read this and had to reply a little OT but I'd kill for a 250GB cap. Try living in NZ for awhile. LOL :-)

Sky in UK give truly unlimited downlaods and no traffic shapping at all.
 
Dont slow down or block torrents on any ports