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And here's more of the same.
Oct. 28th, 2015 03:40 amYou remember the recent release of Metal Gear Solid V? Where the PC physical disc was actually just a disc with a steam installer on it with a free coupon for the download version of the game?
You know, the whole epic fail of them not realizing (And come on they have to be trying REAL hard not to get this) exactly what the group of customers that prefer and expect (or even only consider buying) a disc version?
Well, on a walk today I passed some game stores and in them I saw... Minecraft: Story Mode for sale as a disc!
Wait a sec... isn't only the first of five chapters even done?
Why yes. And that's exactly what you get with the disc - plus a DLC coupon for the remaining chapters whenever they get done.
I hate this. I really, really do.
Within 2 years, if people actually buy this piece of shit in droves, this will start to become the norm for physical releases - where the physical release will essentially be nothing more than the alpha (maybe beta if we're lucky!) version of the game, along with a DLC coupon to download the rest of the game later in the year/nextyear/whenever/hopefully when it's actually completed.
Which of course means "when we get to a particular part and we decide to cut you off and make you rebuy expansion packs and misc DLC that we don't want included with the inserted code we gave you with the buggy literally half finished product."
This is essentially exactly what I predicted they'd do with physical releases (Actually a bit worse than my prediction!) where the disc wouldn't even contain the full game anymore.
Actually my prediction was that they'd have the entire game on the disc, but it all locked out into a demo mode until you put in your little DLC coupon code. With this, the majority of the game (a full EIGHTY PERCENT) isn't even completed before they started selling it for full price. So I guess they've jumped over a step.
My link above is for the Xbone version, but there's similar disc versions for the PS3, 360, and I think PS4. (Can't remember seeing the PS4 version at the store, but saw the other two.)
So yeah. Death of physical media. By the end of this console generation it'll become standard practice, and when it comes time for a new console to replace what's on the go you'll have people going "why bother with physical discs. they never have the full game anyway. digital all the way!"
Just so we're clear, I won't be buying this lame ass disc version. I'll probably boycott the "game of the year version" they might release in a year's time - which will simply be the full game, minus DLC.
And just because this dick move pisses me off, I'm not buying it on steam either, I don't give a shit if it goes on a 95% flash sale. (And this means I'm not buying it digitally on the consoles either. :P)
You know, the whole epic fail of them not realizing (And come on they have to be trying REAL hard not to get this) exactly what the group of customers that prefer and expect (or even only consider buying) a disc version?
Well, on a walk today I passed some game stores and in them I saw... Minecraft: Story Mode for sale as a disc!
Wait a sec... isn't only the first of five chapters even done?
Why yes. And that's exactly what you get with the disc - plus a DLC coupon for the remaining chapters whenever they get done.
I hate this. I really, really do.
Within 2 years, if people actually buy this piece of shit in droves, this will start to become the norm for physical releases - where the physical release will essentially be nothing more than the alpha (maybe beta if we're lucky!) version of the game, along with a DLC coupon to download the rest of the game later in the year/nextyear/whenever/hopefully when it's actually completed.
Which of course means "when we get to a particular part and we decide to cut you off and make you rebuy expansion packs and misc DLC that we don't want included with the inserted code we gave you with the buggy literally half finished product."
This is essentially exactly what I predicted they'd do with physical releases (Actually a bit worse than my prediction!) where the disc wouldn't even contain the full game anymore.
Actually my prediction was that they'd have the entire game on the disc, but it all locked out into a demo mode until you put in your little DLC coupon code. With this, the majority of the game (a full EIGHTY PERCENT) isn't even completed before they started selling it for full price. So I guess they've jumped over a step.
My link above is for the Xbone version, but there's similar disc versions for the PS3, 360, and I think PS4. (Can't remember seeing the PS4 version at the store, but saw the other two.)
So yeah. Death of physical media. By the end of this console generation it'll become standard practice, and when it comes time for a new console to replace what's on the go you'll have people going "why bother with physical discs. they never have the full game anyway. digital all the way!"
Just so we're clear, I won't be buying this lame ass disc version. I'll probably boycott the "game of the year version" they might release in a year's time - which will simply be the full game, minus DLC.
And just because this dick move pisses me off, I'm not buying it on steam either, I don't give a shit if it goes on a 95% flash sale. (And this means I'm not buying it digitally on the consoles either. :P)
