Feel the need to download a new (old) game over Games on Demand? Epic Games would be pleased if you had the itch. The original Gears of War -- the Platinum Hits version -- is now available over Microsoft’s console-side digital downloads service.
Experience all the cursing, the brown, the blood and gore and the Emergence Day origins story all over again. Or don’t. Either way, the 6GB Gears of War download is priced terribly at $19.99 for your buying pleasure. Just don't tell Fenix that you bought it at Amazon.com for $18.38 or lower. He's a bit of a testy fellow.
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2:30 PM on 12.29.2009
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I suppose this is good for people who don't have a Best Buy or something around where they live, but man, just go online. Save yourself the trouble and the money.
Aside from this the prices are rediculous all for the simple convenience of not leaving the house.
The irony is that I originally chose the route of downloading it so I could carry on playing some games on my day off. The Xbox stop's downloading if you start up a game.
Oh well...
Either way, I always prefer hard copies if the game is identical (i.e. not improved in some way like the download-only Rez HD was compared to the original non-HD Rez), so at least retailers can count on me, since there's no way I'd buy digital unless the price was low enough for an impulse buy.
Compete with going out of business sales?
Remember when ownership used to mean actually owning something? I do.
I spent $9 on a 6" Subwy sandwich, chips and a pop today. Twice that for Gears of War is a no-brainer.
Dude it's Oblivion. Game is fucking huge.
But yeah another day another reason to hate digital disribution/Micosoft/XboxLive.
PS: Dear Internets, it is ridiculous (just like it sounds), not rediculous.
these 'games on demand' have already done their "tour of duty" (so to speak) on retail shelves, so they're not stepping on their toes and it costs M$ nothing to offer up these games on Live to less knowledgeable or compulsive spending gamers.
it's a win/win for M$. the only way to combat this kind of blatant fleecing is for editors of gaming websites (like this one) to post articles blasting M$ for these practices.
keep beating the war-drum and hope the message gets heard.
I never said I purchase anything from xbox live, besides that I don't own a credit card.