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Originally Posted by Keroko
It's still a terrible decision even from a profit-central standpoint. Take EA, with origin they have a chance to boost the popularity of origin. All those complaints will simmer down if customers can get their shiny EA titles cheaper on origin, which stabilizes the platform and allows them to eventually overtake retail stores in their profit margin, effectively eliminating not only expensive extra productions and trade steps, but also downgrade the competition of the used game market.
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We see that, sure. They don't. This is the same shit that's been happening with the record industry and the film industry. They don't see how the old business models are phasing out and new models are being created.
Instead, they see the newer companies as competition to be crushed, the new models as dangerous new trends to be smashed. They want to maintain the status quo despite the fact that they could make
even more sickeningly large amounts of money if they'd just move with the times.
Unfortunately they always seem to see moving with the times as a huge risk, even when it's really not, and they'd rather move heaven, hell and earth with their bare hands to keep everything exactly the same than change.
This is why we have record labels suing tweeners for downloading MP3s and shit like SOPA trying to be passed as law. Because these companies
refuse to adapt. Just because EA sells video games does not make them immune. They adapt quickly to the trends that benefit them the most in the immediate short-term (chopping up games and selling tons of DLC, for instance) and they resist those that
might benefit them in the long-term (selling digital-only copies cheaper than boxed copies).