Console players in parts of America and Germany are announcing that GameStop has broken the street date and released early https://www.pastemagazine.com/artic...old-copies-of-surviving-mars-prior-to-it.html
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Happens every single release. A store or company trying to cash in early to beat out digital markets. Then they get burned by publishers refusing to sell them games.
How exactly does one burn Gamestop? They are basically the only meat-space game store chain left, at least in America. Gamestop acts shitty like this because there's no real way to punish them for it.
There were earlier reports of isolated distributions of console releases, but this sounds more systemic. Unfortunately, they've probably calculated that they'll make more money selling early than lose from the fines. This isn't something done as a casual mistake - it's intentional, and I hope PDX learns from their error and Gamestop just buries itself deeper.
As a company, you don't sell through them. You sell through Steam and other online retailers.
As a person, you resist the urge to Google the closest Gamestop so you can buy early. You probably don't know where it is anyways.
its werth noting bestbye and sum walmart stors also broke street date it was onthe shelf at my lokel warmart for ps4 on sunday wen me and my wifewent to get sum cat food
Don't make console versions of games, and don't bother paying to make physical copies assuming you do. Frankly if gamestop survives the decade, I'll be surprised. They're a fairly useless appendage on the industry that has turned almost entirely parasitic.
thats abit aleatist of you dontyou think? you can make consel games and not make phisakel copys well anuf and gamestop is no difrint then any other used store outthere any one who does not seethat has on huge blinders.
Not elitist at all, just the nature of the industry. After watching major video store chains die, then bookstore chains die and now a giant like Toys'R'Us, there just isn't much of a place for brick and mortar stores in an industry with multiple well developed digital distribution providers.
Gamestop is notorious for doing this with games, however. It's one thing to run a used-game business, which many stores do; it's another thing to breach contract, repeatedly. The only reason they get away with it, as noted above, is because they're one of the few brick-and-mortar game stores left in America.
Who cares about the console version of a city builder?
If there is someone who sells the pc version early i would have killed for it though...
If there is someone who sells the pc version early i would have killed for it though...
Simpel think to restrict things like that would have to be like most Publishers do, have the game run you have to run an online update. So the release for everyone would be just only possible at the same time.
I know the odds of it are next to nil but it'd be nice if they decided to release early as a result of this.
They already said they wouldn't:
Hey everyone, it seems a few retailers seem to have misunderstood the release date and started selling some copies early. This is only happening in a tiny amount of places. We thank all of you that have been patiently waiting for actual release on the 15th and I wanted to confirm that we are still sticking to that release as we have it booked in with other platforms such as Steam and GOG etc.
The wait will be worth it!
And when us Aussies hear of things like this and know we have to wait until the 16th, well that is just the frosting on the cake we can't eat.
The Elitist part is claiming the because physical retailers are struggling, that the obvious course of action is to hard turn into PC only development and dump consoles altogether. If anything, the proliferation of tablets and smartphones makes the desktop gaming PC the niche item that is going to struggle in the near future, not the gaming console.
Gaming consoles have their niche, just like a gaming PC has it's niche. Tablets and smartphones are a niche of the gaming market as well. They can all exist together because they all have their strengths and weaknesses.
It's just that stores like this who put profit above their agreements with the publishers of the games really piss a lot of people off. Players who are eagerly waiting suddenly see that a small fraction get to start playing because the stores don't want to wait anymore and they want the store penalised in some way and the easiest way is to hit them in the wallet and stop some of their profits.
Sure, which works on the consumer end. But to say that the appropriate response from the developer is to cut all console development so as to have no physical game boxes to sell at the retail store to punish that retail chain is nuts.