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Why direct-download game distribution > publishers

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*bump* (up a whole one thread in the crazy popular Devs Corner forum).

 

It seems as though Battlefront.com is having a sale of 30 days at 30% off for most of their games purchased through direct download.

  • 4 months later...

Here's an old school bump.

 

 

In any case, it seems as though Eastside Hockey Manager 2007 opted for digital distribution only for their game. While it did anger some people (many of which weren't really sure what DD entailed, judging by their forum), they went with this model because they had too many hassles with boxed distribution, particularly in North America, and getting shelf space for the game.

Did you hear about Triton closing down? Apparently it dropped off the face of the Earth without even a by-your-leave. It's sort of the dd apocalypse scenario.

I have never heard of Triton.

I'm not surprised, their only remarkable asset was Prey.

I think we have wondered enough to transfer this to C&C.

The universe is change;
your life is what our thoughts make it
- Marcus Aurelius (161)

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Did you hear about Triton closing down? Apparently it dropped off the face of the Earth without even a by-your-leave. It's sort of the dd apocalypse scenario.

Did this have any effect on downloading/ed games (and support, for example)?

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Yeah, the network was gone. Even the Triton website was gone. People couldn't download games and I they couldn't play their games either.

Four PC game tiles from Activision -- Call of Duty

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Cool. I never would have expected Call of Duty to be available via Steam.

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