Star,
Your right about stores discounting games rather quickly. That game you got for 7 euro, the company might have gotten a dollar off of it in the end.
You got the box, cd, manuel and shipping fee's. Then warehouse stocking fees, the store whom sold the game wants some money. Like Electronics Botique (now stop n save). The corporate office will make money per game, then the store needs money to pay employees. In the end, the programmers get screwed. I'd buy Divinity2 directly from Larian if they had a download option from their site. I'm sure any site offering "direct to drive" service have jacked fee's to keep themselves rich.
That company that lost $100 you say... maybe they lost $10, their lunch probably cost more than what they didn't get off you. All this overhead is why games are so expensive. Though box art is nice, honestly it is a waste of space. Unless the game has multiple disks, it shouldn't come in a box larger than a standard dvd case.
The Divinity box wasn't too bad, I'm hoping this game comes in an even smaller box though. I'm thinking of downloading it from fileplanet direct 2 drive if possible. I got enough crap, don't need another box. Can burn it to a dvd or two for a backup and put it in a small jewel case. Hardly even looked at the instruction manuel except for the little prequel story in the beginning.
DRM is mostly unnecessary overhead. It doesn't curb piracy, those that want it illegally, will get it with a little work or patience for a crack to be in pirated sites. There are too many people in the world that will work at getting themselves out of work and work hard to get out of paying for something. Even to the point where they'd be better off just to do their job or pay for the game. Man kind is crazier than imps!
Last edited by LightningLockey; 01/05/09 05:09 PM.
