Not sure if it's much news but FOC is now Games on Demand Games on Demand - Xbox.com For those looking for another means of owning the game.
I like to collect archives of things and find single hard drive one time installations a little insulting, like my money only rents a scrap of the product as long as the hard drive holds out; while the publisher gets to sit kooshy without the disc manufactureing costs. Granted because of piracy they have the right to restrict installations and take steps of protection as deeply as they want to go, its just I feel the practice looks to slighted at the expense of consumers to endorse. Disc is superior. Download Inferior.
..and considering the reason that the companies claim to WANT to go digital is to cut costs for discs and packaging, they are failing miserably. I think if I'm not going to get the physical contents, that price should be at least 1/2 of what it is.
You can buy this new at Target for 35. And used at every game store for 35. Why the hell would anyone pay 60 for an old game? SMGDH
I walked into Walmart on the afternoon of Black Friday and bought it for $25. Digital for $60? No thanks.
This game was easily available over the BF weekend for $25 - I grabbed my copy. I honestly think the lazy person that pays this price should be parted with their money.
And IIRC Steam put it on sale for around 25 or 30 bucks last week too... and at least with Steam you *know* the digital copy can be used on other machines in the immediate future. Who knows whether PSN or XBL goes and tells folks that, once the new consoles are out, their old stuff *cannot* be uses. (Yes, I'm disregarding the outrageous price tag atm.)
