Comments on: New breed of customers

By: Juuso

Juuso — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:37:19 +0000

Heh, they are sneaky that way :)

By: Azrael

Azrael — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:20:00 +0000

Not everything has a demo. That said, it’s also hard to pass up stuff marked down 80% or 85%. I have been cursing steam all week for tempting me badly.

Although, I have to hand it to them for such a marketing masterstroke: two events to get people to create and build wishlists, and then steeply mark everything down…with helpful reminders about stuff on your wishlist is now on sale.

By: Juuso

Juuso — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:03:32 +0000

@Mankoon: yeh, in the future games will be just virtual boxes. You cannot even play them, just buy them.

@Azrael: usually there’s demos available for handling that.

By: Mankoon

Mankoon — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:03:59 +0000

In the future we will all buy games but never play them. They will be like badges of support for devs collected on our steam pages. Silly though, right? I do the same thing some times. Other times I just buy games I know I won’t have time to play but would like to own.

By: Azrael

Azrael — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 21:26:53 +0000

I too have picked up a number of games this holiday season, most via Steam. Some of them I picked up only to investigate their workings. Beyond that, I probably wont rack up many hours on them. But, I do think Raph Koster is right when he says..you should try a game, if only long enough to get the basics down. You can learn a lot.

When I was a kid, I used to take things apart to see how they worked…I guess the same philosophy holds true with me now: sometimes I buy a game just to see how it does what it does. But I don’t just do it with standalone games, I also do it with MMO’s as well.