Three quick notes for publishers from the your-dickheadetry-will-cost-you file:
- New strategy game RUSE is free to try this weekend on Steam, as a method of building interest in the title. Unfortunately, the full game remains Ubi-crippled with Ubisoft’s gamer-hating “log you off if the connection is lost in the middle of a single-player game” DRM (even if you’re running it through Steam) so, I have absolutely no idea whether the full game is any good or not because I’m not going to bother downloading even a trial of it. (And I’m not alone.)
- I was going to give new comedy RPG DeathSpank a go, and went to download it on 360 before realising that there’s no way it’ll fit on my crowded 20GB hard drive. Naturally, I have thus far resisted paying Microsoft’s frankly obscene prices for a drive upgrade, and will thus be downloading the demo and possibly buying the game on PS3, where Sony will get the sweet sweet cash and not Microsoft.
- Would’ve bought the PC version of Battlefield Bad Company 2 on the recent Steam sale, if Australians weren’t being forced to pay 40% more than every other country. Well done, EA and local distributors – you’ve done yourselves out of another sale. Likewise 2K with its even more obscene 270% markup on the PC version of Borderlands.
I’m just one man, slowly making up for his weakness in buying the MW2 map packs.
Tags: Battlefield Bad Company 2, Borderlands, Deathspank, drm, microsoft, region pricing, ripoffs, Ruse, Sony, Steam, ubisoft
Feel no shame Jeremy, the map packs fools us all…..
On another note, you guys seem to be going in overdrive with these articles after a dry spot. Not I have a problem with it, I was just pointing out the obvious.
Never bothered with the MW2 map packs. You can attack flash drives and save games on them now. I’ve still got 70GB left on my xbox not having that issue here.
Hi Jeremy,
While I find your consumerist view on the world entertaining, I would like to make this observation and hopefully bring you up to speed on what is an out-of-date understanding:
“… went to download it on 360 before realising that there’s no way it’ll fit on my crowded 20GB hard drive. Naturally, I have thus far resisted paying Microsoft’s frankly obscene prices for a drive upgrade…”
Assuming that you have some version of Live connection, since one of the earlier updates this year, you have been able to use USB stick’s in place of HD space & they support USB sticks up to 16 GIG (http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/storage) which is only 4 GIG shy of your original HDD; there is no price (obscene or otherwise) for this free functionality.
~DSebJ
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