(They're right here too, which does lead to the situation where you can more consistently buy a boxed copy cheaper than you can a download one - the sales skew that one a bit, of course, but they're not consistent. The thinking on matching prices online to those in the shops is that developers believe by undercutting the shops, the shops will stop stocking them. It doesn't matter whether or not it'll be reduced in price almost immediately - reducing from a higher price to a lower one is incremental, and if we let people release for more money then it really just leads to more expensive games.īut for a digital download - and a game solely released this way - it seems even worse. Seeing the period when Activision were doing terrible ports of their superhero action games and releasing them for thirty five quid grated enormously. Accepting a game's increase in price for no clear reason is a betrayal of the consumer advocacy part of the gig. I've a tendency to tweak marks down for clear price-gouging, because the mark's sole purpose is a consumer guidance role. I occasionally feel as if I'm alone on this one. The reason why is the small matter of its price. Which is some going when I normally leap a the slightest chance to mention the Skaven. Blood bowl's just been released via Digital Download.
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