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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - No Oceans- Call For Worldwide Release Dates.
Crysis 2 comes out today! And Lego Star Wars III! Hooray! Except of course, only if you drawl your vowels. These two big games are out in America only today. Crysis 2 reaches Australia on Thursday, and the finally completes its journey to Europe by Friday. Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars is taking a three day journey to Europe to reach us by Friday, before then walking to Australia to eventually be released eight days after its US launch. We’ve had enough.
No Oceans is RPS’s campaign to have the UK release day for games changed to Tuesday, to come into line with North America. Which will be a lot of work. It means convincing retail to change their delivery days, and reschedule their systems. But we think it’s worth it, both for them and for customers. Here’s why.
Games On Net - The Killer Inside.
Killing is bad, or at least heinous. Most of us would be sick at the prospect of actually having to plot and enact a murder, provided it wasn’t that chick who ‘sings’ Friday. But the list of homicides you’ve committed in the name of gaming numbers in the countless, and the amount of times you’ve stopped to consider the form of said entertainment? Possibly zero. Why? It’s fun, you think nothing of it. Friend of a friend of mine works the big guns for a certain country’s Special Forces. One time he took a video on his phone of 155mm shells scattering a village full of insurgents – and, possibly, some civilians – to the four winds. It’s awful. He cringes every time he clicks ‘play’ on it. But he can still enjoy a game approximating something very similar to that reality. Visibly gets off on it, just like the rest of us. The Romans sank under the weight of similar appetites; we just have the technology to actualise them without physically feeding Gaulish slaves to lions (although some might argue that reality television is a perilously close modern equivalent).
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Mar 23, 2011, 14:58 |
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spindoctor wrote on Mar 23, 2011, 12:28:
It seems like you have missed the point. Are you perchance a resident of North America?
Yup.
The issue is that there is no good reason left why some countries should have to wait for games that are complete and playable in other countries. Right now I am preloading Crysis 2 from Steam, and it will unlock for me on Friday. The exact same preload was decrypted for American customers on Tuesday. Why exactly is my 60$ purchase not worthy of a Tuesday unlock when my American brethren who paid the exact same amount are playing it now?
And why should the digital customers get theirs before the B&M store customers do? I mean, they got off their ass, wasted gas and went to support a local business. You just helped take away jobs in your own country to give jobs to Americans(thanks, btw).
Maybe in the past there was an argument for physical stock taking slightly longer to reach other parts of the world. However, that is no longer true. Publishers can get stock of their games to all countries at approximately the same time. And in either case, it is completely absurd when we talk about digital copies that are bought and downloaded through the internet.
Different countries have different historical media release dates. We could all probably get that stuff the day they go gold, but in the US we still have to wait until Tuesday. Also, if the games are boxed and published in the US, they have to be shipped overseas. You could yell at the publishers to do it all by air, but that's pretty expensive. I'm sure quite a few ship by boat(especially when we're talking about thousands and thousands of copies) so that would be the delay.
And I'll be perfectly honest. I loathe pre-sales. Why would you pay $60 for a game before it's released? These days the trend is to hit the release date over finalizing and polishing the product. I'll wait until the reviews come in because I value my $60(though, usually I wait until the game hits $40 or less and all the patches are out). If anything, you should be thanking the US for making sure what you're about to spend your money on isn't crap. |
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