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Disposable Video Games Hurting Industry
Cordova, TN; December 21, in the year of our Lord
2015--Family Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in
covering the family friendly video games is conquering a bad
trend within the video game industry. Digital downloads have
made video games disposable. They have lost all value when
consumers can no longer trade them, give them away, or sell them
to other consumers. Since the video game companies have stolen
ownership from consumers they have made their digital
downloadable video games completely disposable and worthless.
Plenty of consumers go to stores and look for products. Digital
downloads are not reaching physical copy gamers. Online games
that can be taken away from consumers have helped create this
disposable video game problem.
I have talked to plenty of people at retail stores who gauge the
health of a system based on how many video games are in the
store. I have lost track of how many times people have told me:
“I would not buy that system because there are not enough games
for it.” I have also met people who do not have Internet in
their homes. So all of these online features and modes are
meaningless to them. There is a complexity that has been added
to the consoles and games due to the online modes, and features.
Not everyone has the same level of technological experience. To
some people it is frightening, and they will not spend their
money on it. They are comfortable with plug and play. Remember
the wonderful day of popping in a cartridge or a disc and it
played? Why can’t we do that again? It was simpler, easier, less
glitchy, and worked better.
Digital downloads have helped smaller companies get products to
an online only market. There are some great ideas out there, and
I wish they would progress to physical copies. The digital
downloads have made those video games completely disposable.
There is only so much memory on the devices unless you plan on
spending even more money on larger hard drives. Once a game is
deleted from a device it becomes less likely it will be played
again. Which means it becomes forgotten and meaningless. We go
back and replay physical copies of games all the time because we
see the game case. It is much harder to do that with a digital
download. Going through the library of previously downloaded
games is so time consuming and boring. The solution is so
simple. The solution is so easy. Make physical copies of these
games. Remind consumers that video games have an actual value
when they are released in the physical format.
God bless,
Paul Bury
Family Friendly Gaming