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PC News by Ellie Gibson
There's still a week to go until it's out, but Spore is now available to download from the EA Store.
You won't be able to play it yet, but the point is the game will be all nicely pre-loaded when Spore officially launches on September 5th. Then you'll just have to wait half an hour for the game to decrypt before you can play.
The game is priced at GBP 39.99. It's only the PC version that can be downloaded, so Mac owners will have to wait.
Look out for Eurogamer's review of Spore next week.
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Comments: 1-33 of 33
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in the shops, most likely.
The EA store is a horribly overpriced digital download service, made worse since they rarely release their games via any other digital distribution services. The download copy certainly shouldn't cost more than the boxed copy- after all, it saves the publisher productions costs. |
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TheMoonRat
29/08/08 @ 07:45
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Just £28 on amazon.co.uk delivered. Crazy price from EA.
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For anyone that needs to get this early for some reason and drinks Coke, 10 points on the cokezone.co.uk rewards site gets you 20% off. You get 2 points on the small bottles and 3 on the 2ltr. Just so you know.
I can wait though. I'd go for Moonrats suggestion above if you're sane.
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FOURTY QUID FOR A F^*$(NG DOWNLOAD? Are they insane? Or I could get it, as MoonRat has said, in a nice box, with a manual, and a DVD for, er, £12 less.
Which costs more - bandwidth or DVD + manual + box + shipping? I think I know the answer and it means they've got their pricing COMPLETELY wrong. Mind you, maybe Valve have given them some figures for Steam (where FM2008 is still about £25 compared to a tenner in shops, and Bioshock is still about £30 compared to £15 in shops) and EA thought they might get away with it....... |
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hiddenranbir
29/08/08 @ 08:34
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Time to use my Spore Creator £5 discount! (Which in the long run just means I paid their full price anyway!)
Of course, buying a cheap retail and adding the £5 from the creator I probably will have paid less overall anyway! |
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Bloody 'ell... I pre-ordered the game for a penny under £30... downloading it at ten quid extra to have it on release day is absolutely no consolation when I'll probably playing it the day before!!! These artificially inflated higher prices are what put me off downloading PC games in the first place... I remember seeing Alone in the Dark for £39.99 (which fortunately I never bought anyway). LOL
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kingdumpalot
29/08/08 @ 09:35
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Agree with all the others here- not only too expensive, but with all the horrible conditions that EA places on it's downloads like having to pay again if you want to download it again after 6 months, this deal is for the people who bought the "I am rich" Itouch app.
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Royal Fool
29/08/08 @ 09:35
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Don't shop from EA's store. They charge you for re-downloading it at a later date, which is absolutely rubbish service to customers.
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I pre-order my copy from play ages back so will get it for £26
The reason the download is more than the retail price, is that if they didn't do that none of the retailers would buy any copies. Since the retailers are taking a risk with every purchase (they may not sell) any game producer that sold a download on release day for less than the retail price would never sell another copy of a game to a retailer ever again. |
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I'm sure I saw the Orange Box in a shop, but yes, that's a Valve game of course.
Retailers are hardly doing PC gaming any favours. I'm hoping that soon publishers just tell the retailers where to go and embrace digital distribution properly. A risky move perhaps, but they'll be making more money off each sale and cheaper prices will of course encourage more sales. |
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SpikeRocks
29/08/08 @ 12:28
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Horray! The organized pirates will now get a head start on making a crack :P
And witha price like that they deserve to be pirated. Arr har har, Avast!!!
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It's a close to a 4GB download. In the email that I got it said that it'll download 99% of it, then on the day of release it'll take about 30-40 minutes to install depending on your system. I'm looking forward to making the various vehicles in it. :D
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TurboBailey
29/08/08 @ 14:41
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WTF!! £39.99??
Screw you EA. I'll buy it elsewhere for £24.99 or less. No wonder people pirate video games - £39.99 is just theft for a digital download |
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the problem isn't so much EA as it is the retailers. They'd kick up such a fuss if EA undercut them,
That's true, sure, but these retailers are undercut all the time by internet sites in DVDs, music, clothing. I know in those cases it's not the publisher/manufacturer selling the products directly, but the effect is the same. And those products are identical - art least with games the retailer can add some value with a box, disc, manual etc. |
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