Im glad Steam is having good sales as that means a profit for the publishers regardless of where its coming from. I still however will never buy a game off steam and continue to purchase the hard copys. My preference and if they ever stopped making hard copys I would stop purchasing games.
Now now come on guys we all know PC gaming is dying :roll: this is excellent news and proof of what is really happening. A simple thing for game publishers to remember, if you want your game to sell then put it on Steam.
No so impressive once you realise the last quarter was full of cheap games and unbelievable offers. That's when they got most their traffic and new accounts too.
That explains why they removed the PC section from my local gamestop lolDaRockWilder
gamestop doesn't make money off of pc, they cant rip people off selling used games for $5 less. They also cant accept a trade of three to four games for one game (which usually will be a used game).
No so impressive once you realise the last quarter was full of cheap games and unbelievable offers. That's when they got most their traffic and new accounts too.
Baranga
Thats really irrelevant, growth is growth period. It really helps the publishers keep the price down when there are no console license fees, no second hand game sales, no packaging, and free advertising.
[QUOTE="Lox_Cropek"]The only thing that it doesn't have is some titles like Microsoft's (Halo and Gears of War)
Mograine
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What the hell has that to do with anything :? ?
just what he said, at the same time microsoft hasn't published a pc game since 07. It seems for some unknown reason microsoft doesn't want to push pc gaming anymore, or when they do they push stupid things like gfwl.
No so impressive once you realise the last quarter was full of cheap games and unbelievable offers. That's when they got most their traffic and new accounts too.
kevy619
Thats really irrelevant, growth is growth period. It really helps the publishers keep the price down when there are no console license fees, no second hand game sales, no packaging, and free advertising. I'd agree with you, but in this case "growth" isn't really growth. If they had constant sales then yeah that would mean "a lot" but those sales aren't nearly as high considering the burst of sales in December (only, December). Digital sales are rising, but it isn't at this pace, far from it. Having lots of sales in one month because of extremely low prices doesn't mean that people adopted DD.
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