Cliffy B. is back with some declarations of intent and he says that he will never create a disc-based game anymore.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-02-18-bleszinski-ill-never-make-another-disc-based-game
Okay, I am conscious that disc-based games are a dying breed, somewhat... But I hope they never disappear, because I'd like to keep forever with me those games I consider masterpieces, to show them to my future grandchildren someday, if I am lucky enough to have them.
Now, since selling games burnt on disks is allegedly not the future, my opinion is that I respect Cliffy's opinion but I don't agree with him.
To me the only future viable model is something like GoG.com. I own quite a few digital games, both on PC and consoles, some of them were free (Games with Gold), others I chose to buy them.
Cliffy B. sounds to me like he is using the "go with the times" card, without thinking that to some people that's not the ideal model.
There are games with more modern and fun and interesting mechanics, timeless games from the past that others could learn from, and feel more up to date than some current games. Say... i.e. the Heroes of Might and Magic series.
Thing is, I don't hate digital, but I don't like how games are sold to you.
I have 12 Steam games, a few Impulse (Gamestop digital store for PC) games, and a lot more GoG games.
The problem with digital for me, is that they strip you out of any sense of ownership. I don't feel like the games I buy are mine anymore, EXCEPT on GoG.
I mean, you aren't installing the game yourself, you aren't given the installation files, "your" game installs automatically for you, with no way to save your files in another computer or carry your games with you anywhere not only in a digital manner, but in a physical way too.
This certainly screws my brain out in the sense that I don't feel that those games belong to me, it kinda negates my enjoyment of the game because I paid full price for them.
Now GoG for instance is truly a paradise. You don't have a physical copy of the game, but you have all the extras, and the manuals, for you and just for you. Also the installation files are downloaded to your PC, which means that you get what you actually paid for, a game. --not just an automatic installation.
The installation process is as easy as it has ever been. And more importantly, you can copy your games (the installation files and extras, or just the install exectutables) to an external hard drive, to a pendrive or to another PC, etc etc. they are yours forever.
That to me is the future I want to embrace, regardless of whether we are heading towards a digital world or not.
I would agree with him more if he just said that having physical and digital content available and a good online service is essential these days -look what happened to WiiU and its abysmal sales and how stuck in the past Nintendo are, as romantic as it can be- to increase your revenue when you create a game.
But you never know if the next game from him is going to be a success or not, and no matter how good it is, if I have to buy it on certain digital stores, that detracts a point from the overall score, at least to me.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-02-18-bleszinski-ill-never-make-another-disc-based-game
Okay, I am conscious that disc-based games are a dying breed, somewhat... But I hope they never disappear, because I'd like to keep forever with me those games I consider masterpieces, to show them to my future grandchildren someday, if I am lucky enough to have them.
Now, since selling games burnt on disks is allegedly not the future, my opinion is that I respect Cliffy's opinion but I don't agree with him.
To me the only future viable model is something like GoG.com. I own quite a few digital games, both on PC and consoles, some of them were free (Games with Gold), others I chose to buy them.
Cliffy B. sounds to me like he is using the "go with the times" card, without thinking that to some people that's not the ideal model.
There are games with more modern and fun and interesting mechanics, timeless games from the past that others could learn from, and feel more up to date than some current games. Say... i.e. the Heroes of Might and Magic series.
Thing is, I don't hate digital, but I don't like how games are sold to you.
I have 12 Steam games, a few Impulse (Gamestop digital store for PC) games, and a lot more GoG games.
The problem with digital for me, is that they strip you out of any sense of ownership. I don't feel like the games I buy are mine anymore, EXCEPT on GoG.
I mean, you aren't installing the game yourself, you aren't given the installation files, "your" game installs automatically for you, with no way to save your files in another computer or carry your games with you anywhere not only in a digital manner, but in a physical way too.
This certainly screws my brain out in the sense that I don't feel that those games belong to me, it kinda negates my enjoyment of the game because I paid full price for them.
Now GoG for instance is truly a paradise. You don't have a physical copy of the game, but you have all the extras, and the manuals, for you and just for you. Also the installation files are downloaded to your PC, which means that you get what you actually paid for, a game. --not just an automatic installation.
The installation process is as easy as it has ever been. And more importantly, you can copy your games (the installation files and extras, or just the install exectutables) to an external hard drive, to a pendrive or to another PC, etc etc. they are yours forever.
That to me is the future I want to embrace, regardless of whether we are heading towards a digital world or not.
I would agree with him more if he just said that having physical and digital content available and a good online service is essential these days -look what happened to WiiU and its abysmal sales and how stuck in the past Nintendo are, as romantic as it can be- to increase your revenue when you create a game.
But you never know if the next game from him is going to be a success or not, and no matter how good it is, if I have to buy it on certain digital stores, that detracts a point from the overall score, at least to me.
