SEIV via Steam - Page 5

Fyron · #41 January 19th, 2006, 02:27 PM

It was an entirely legitimate post... In the old days before Internet, patches generally had to be shipped in the mail or hand delivered. Or even worse, you might have to wait for the next version of the software to be sold! It is only the modern era that has patches available for download. I see little difference here. It is still part of the software model. If you are going to call people stupid and lazy for downloading purchased games, you have to call them stupid and lazy for the patches too.

Renegade 13 · #42 January 19th, 2006, 10:16 PM

I'm forced to disagree Fyron. Patches aren't games.

Fyron · #43 January 20th, 2006, 01:15 AM

I never said they were games... I said the model is the same. You can't blatantly insult people for wanting one thing via download but not the other. It just doesn't make sense. There is no difference... Should we call people that buy music from Itunes stupid and lazy? How about TV shows and movies (eventually) from Google Video? How about everyone that bought SE3? It was downloaded...

Just look back at the post... "They just want to sit on their chair, click, download stuff and enjoy it, without thinking about what they actually did and how stupid it actually is, compared to doing it the "old way". " Getting patches from the Internet is most certainly "sitting on your chair, click, download stuff and enjoy it."

TurinTurambar · #44 January 20th, 2006, 01:28 AM

Valid points. Especially the iTunes one. Kudos.

TT

JAFisher44 · #45 January 20th, 2006, 02:05 AM

I personally think that comparing buying a game online and downloading it is not the same thing as downloading a patch. The main difference is that you don't pay for a patch. It is just something offered for free to enhance the experience you have with a game you already purchased.

The iTunes example is sound tho. I think that it is a questionable practice to download anything that costs money. Assuming of course that you care about your money and dont really want to end up paying for it again if something goes wrong.

Q · #46 January 20th, 2006, 07:17 AM

To download a game instead of shipping a CD has more to do with cost than laziness for me. For SE IV I paid almost as much for shipping than for the game itself (I live in Europe), while downloads cost nothing for me as I have a cable internet access with no restriction on data amount or time.
Of course if I was in the US with a dialup connection the opposite might be true.