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Who voted for digital downloads over physical copies?
Cordova, TN; March 28, in the year of our Lord 2016--Family
Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in covering the family
friendly video games is asking a very pertinent and important
question to all gaming media outlets. Who voted for digital
downloads over physical copies? Family Friendly Gaming never got
a say in this industry change that some are calling a
redefinition. After all retail chains still receive physical
copies. Online retailers still receive physical copies. Gaming
media outlets have received physical copies of games for review
for decades. Something changed at some recent point in time.
Where is the outcry from gaming media outlets that this was a
bad change? Where is the call to return to the traditional way
of video games being provided for reviews? Well besides Family
Friendly Gaming. Who else will stand up and say they do not want
the damage done by digital downloads. Instead we want the better
way of doing things with the physical copies.
I know some of ya’ll are reading this and laughing your heads
off thinking I am not serious. I am serious. I am as serious as
a heart attack. When there is a major shift in the industry that
impacts all of us, someone had to start it, and others had to
follow. There have been plenty of outcries against the direction
many video games have tried to take the industry. Yet with this
one important issue too many of the gaming media outlets have
been deafly silent. Why? Do they buy into the fanatical and
zealot environmental wacko idea that digital downloads cost the
environment less? Servers draw power, and additional hard drives
have to be purchased. Is the end result less or more? Consumers
losing their rights is not a good thing for any of us. How does
that help the environment? I can't see how video games being
made disposable is helping the environment.
So if there was not some vote to move the industry this
direction, it can be fixed. Since there is no official document
saying this is the way video games must go, then we can return
to the proper course. Since the majority of the gamers did not
march for digital downloads, we can happily return to physical
copies. Since we did not go to any company and say we wanted to
do away with physical copies, then they are now capable of
returning to how things had been done for decades. When
something is not broke, don’t try to fix it. Too many PR and
Marketing people missed that truth. Instead they broke something
that was already working fine. I hope they return to traditional
values, instead of the warped blowing in the wind worldly ones.
God bless,
Paul Bury
Family Friendly Gaming