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Buying Games Side Effects
Cordova, TN; December 18, in the year of our Lord 2023
-- Family Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in
covering the family friendly video games is continuing to be the
voice of diversity in the gaming media, and media at large. A
long time ago I floated the idea of gaming media outlets buying
the games we play at cost. Not one video game company jumped on
board for that idea. Not one video game media outlet besides
Family Friendly Gaming tried out the idea. After some years of
working on this idea I have come to realize some unintended
consequences.
Before we get into the unintended consequences let me give a
little recap. I was sick and tired of all of the lies at the E3
shows. I had been to seven of them, and had a long list of
broken promises from people in PR and Marketing. We were
spending thousands of dollars attending a conference playing
samples of games, and getting promised reviewable copies,
advertisements, sponsorships, and more. We got some cool swag
here and there. Most of it honestly was just junk. It was cheap
advertisements for their products. We were shown cool things in
games that never were in the final product. I was sick of
spending the money. If we spent the money on the games instead
we could come out ahead right? That was the start of the path of
us buying the products ourselves.
We have been doing this here at Family Friendly Gaming for
years. There are some interesting side effects I did not realize
at the time. First and foremost we don't care that much about
digital downloads. We have physical copies of games and play
what we want when we want and how we want. I barely pay any
attention to the digital downloads anymore. If a company only
has digital downloads we are not interested. I would rather play
a physical copy every day of the week. Those companies are not
competing for our time and energy. The same goes for their
meaningless deadlines. I just don't care about them. I can play
games on my own timeline. Some games just sit and never get
attention because we have gone back to playing games from start
to finish. That means less games get our attention. These
companies need to work harder for our attention.
I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day.
God bless,
Paul Bury
Emperor
Family Friendly Gaming
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