with 49 dollar new titles at 25 bucks new? that kinda deafeats the whole "used game" problem.
as we save even more money than we would have either gameflying it or buyign used.
this is about money.. not anything else.
they take away the cheaper ways to game it's gonna do 2 things.
Drive the modders to hack the shit out of the new consoles therefore promoting even more piracy than now.
and 2 drive people back to other platforms like Steam on a HT gaming PC.
First off, you need to get over your STEAM pricing obsession, as you are mostly flat out wrong.
STEAM is a great, reliable service. Best in the industry. The STEAM sale prices can be phenomenal.
The crap you're spewing about brand new games being cheaper on STEAM, and brand new $50 games being $25...yeah, that's rubbish. Again,
during some sales, for a brief period of time, yes, but STEAM's standard pricing is actually either just MSRP, or can be found better elsewhere.
I'll prove it. Here are the latest games being advertised on the STEAM store:
Far Cry 3 ($49.99 MSRP)
ArmA II Combined Operations ($29.99 MSRP)
Devil May Cry ($49.99 MSRP)
Xcom Enemy Unknown ($49.99 on STEAM, can be had for $30 brand new on Amazon)
Borderlands 2 ($29.99 on STEAM sale for the weekend, same on Amazon download all the time)
Omerta City of Gangerts ($39.99 MSRP)
Sniper Elite V2 ($49.99 on STEAM, Can be had for
$20 on Amazon)
Tropico 4 Collector's Bundle ($39.99 MSRP)
Hitman Absolution ($49.99 STEAM, can be had for $38 on Amazon)
Dishonored ($49.99 on STEAM, can be had for $32 brand new on Amazon)
Assassin's Creed 3 ($49.99 on STEAM, can be had for $20 new on Amazon)
...etc, etc, etc
Those aren't cherry picked examples. I just went down the list of "Featured Items" and what STEAM was advertising.
I love STEAM, use it more than any other service combined. But this idea that the deals
outside of the sales are better than everyone else, or would negate the point of used or physical copies, is garbage. When the sales are there, it's great. When they're not, everyday prices are usually BETTER on Amazon, GmG, GoG, etc.