Where are you buying from exactly? I find it hard to imagine that one of your farm stands with local products has it. You are making it sound like I am giving my money to a pack of murderers or a bunch of rapists to make your own point seem more valid. Yes, this is very similar to voting in the fact that there are never options that meet 100% of what you want. You therefore select the one that is best for you and the one that you feel isn’t as bad as the others. The fact that you are trying to say that I take purchasing a video game as seriously as I do my voting responsibilities is just asinine, uninformed, and looking for another argument.
So now because my country has a corporate structure I can’t buy certain products I want is your basic argument? That I should hate all these companies enough not to every purchase from them? It isn’t possible, if you live where I do you HAVE TO buy things from them and I don’t think you fully understand that. I do have options for purchase, they just happen to be on the opposite end of the spectrum your apparently limited options.
If you are that worried about this topic maybe you should be investing the money you spend on games on something else that is rooted around these social causes that you seem to have problems with me “not caring about”. I am not sponsoring a war I am buying a freaking video game and your are trying to make this such a dramatic thing it is ridiculous.
Gamestop’s effect on the industry matters to me because Gamestop is the prime reason I don’t have local options for purchase anymore. I have friends and family who work in the game industry as well so I do pay close attention to Gamestop’s used game practices and profit structure. They do drain profits from game companies and some end up folding because they aren’t getting what can sometimes amount to a large portion profits from the works they create. As a game fan it is hurting my ability to play good games when the companies that make them are no longer around to do so, in part due to losses inflicted by the bloated used game market.
The $10 online pass idea is a whole other issue where game companies are infringing on consumer rights by limiting power of control over a retail product by clever wording to get around the law. If you think that is a good idea then you definitely shouldn’t be casting stones about making choices. I know you are not in the US but take some time and read up on the First Act Doctrine.
This is a much deeper subject that I am not going to go farther into because, quite frankly, it isn’t worth my time and I have plenty of other intelligent avenues do to so. I am only here to support a game dev I like and game that I am looking forward to, not argue with you. I am just going to ignore you so I don’t have to read anymore of your holier than thou garbage. You don’t know anything about who I am as a person, or probably much at all about how the marketplace or purchasing options work over here or the US retail system so I am not going to argue with someone who is only looking at part of the issue from the outside with little information on the situation and just a list of ideals that everyone else should be holding to.
On topic, which is how my posts in this thread will be from now on, Newegg put up a coupon code for Brink on 360 so it is $50 shipped.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16874122013
The code is EMCYTZT407. It is only good through the weekend.
