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Re: Raven Layoffs |
Oct 11, 2010, 20:22 |
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Wow that's the dumbest thing I've read in a while.
Aside from blaming the wrong the people...
You're too lazy to walk to a game shop or just buy it from Amazon and actually get a DVD to keep safe somewhere? I don't have time to install every game I want to play from disc after a reinstall of Windows. My Steam account has over 300 games and is over 800GB. Each time I reinstall Windows (latest time was after my SSD failed and had to be returned) I simply install Steam to the folder on a secondary drive with all my games and they're playable - that's quicker than the time it would take to install a single game. Also, I simply don't have the physical storage space in my room for that many games. The only non-Steam game I bought recently was Starcraft II and that was only because it uses Battle.net.
I'm not blaming these individuals but the end result is that they're producing games I wanted but either couldn't or wouldn't buy (Singularity wasn't available and Wolfenstein wasn't worth full price to me). Market forces did their thing and now they're laying off jobs. If they'd have had a decent business / distribution model then this could quite well have been avoided. I don't get why I'm meant to have sympathy for a badly run business. I was actually annoyed because Singularity showed in Steam as 'Coming Soon' for months until release date and I was going to buy it, when it change to being unavailable in my region - if just a hundred people did the same then that's $5000 down the drain and the likely figure is dramatically higher.
Shame, as I really liked some of their older games, like Soldier of Fortune and Elite Force (both were excellent). |
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