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Re: Digital Game Sales are Now a Huge Factor in the UK, and Charts Really Need to Track Them

Jake3103

@get2sammyb But then you can usually get the physical copy even cheaper than the £40. In my experience, when Fifa drops to £40 on the PS Store, it's available for about £25 physically elsewhere. It seems to me that it's only when we get crazy deals on older or less popular games, such as we're seeing now with the double discounts, where digital sales become worthwhile. Like I said, I have loads of digital games, but they were almost all purchased in sales 12-months or even years after they came out.

Re: Review: Gran Turismo Sport (PS4)

Jake3103

Great review, @get2sammyb. I personally hate racing online; I was a bit dismayed beforehand, but I gave it a go anyway for the love of GT, and I'm even more disappointed now that I've played it than I thought I'd be. I think the feel of the cars are excellent, and the way they look is sublime, but racing against other people with this ridiculously harsh sportsmanship thing is awful.

On one of the daily events, which is a really fast circular course where you simply race around in circles for 15 laps, I was doing really well, up to third place from a starting position of seventh. My SR went up loads during the first 7 laps and I never hit anyone or blocked anyone off, even though everyone was colliding around me. Then, on the 8th lap or so, someone comes up behind me, takes me on the inside, and purposefully rams into the side of me sending me spinning. I got a severe sportsmanship downgrade for that, even though I never blocked this person off or anything, and they purposefully rammed into me. Because I went spinning out, I inadvertently blocked everyone behind me, and I got disconnected for being so unsportsmanlike.

And that was the last time I put it on.

Re: Review: FIFA 18 (PS4)

Jake3103

The HDR support has done wonders for the game's presentation. The lighting is a huge upgrade on last year's Fifa if you have a TV that supports it.

Re: Yakuza Online Kickstarts Post-Kazuma Kiryu Storyline

Jake3103

@kustomflex Sega also own Atlus, so Persona 5 and the recently announced dancing spin-off games will be released by Sega, too. On the PC side of things, they have the Total War series and Football Manager, as well, off the top of my head. They do seem pretty invested in Yakuza, though.

Re: EA Expects Digital to Account for Almost Half of Game Sales Soon

Jake3103

@Rudy_Manchego Yeah, that makes sense. If they missed a game at launch and then fancied playing it later on, there's a good chance they would buy a used physical copy of the game in which the publishers gets nothing. Whereas digitally it allows them to put up a special price, prompt people to remember certain games they missed, and the publisher still gets the money.

Re: EA Expects Digital to Account for Almost Half of Game Sales Soon

Jake3103

@get2sammyb Yeah, it's true. If the prices were the same I'd happily buy digitally. Yakuza 0 was proof of this because it launched at £45 on the PS store, and was roughly the same on Amazon. When games are £50-55 each, though, it's just asking too much.

Do you think they'll ever bring prices down, or do you think that prices will just stay stupidly high on the UK store and we'll eventually succumb to paying those prices?