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Originally Posted by KnightOfTruth
To be fair, its not just Ubi, several other companies seem to have switched to doing this now as well. Perhaps they got tired of having all of them sitting on shelves and losing money hand over fist on them as well? SquareEnix has limited several CEs (including Tomb Raider) to exclusively their store (although it seems they realized people didn't like that and sold some of the DQ:heroes stock to Amazon/GS even though they still advertise it as "exclusive" to their site). I have a feeling we'll be seeing some more of this type of behavior though and will likely see less stock made as well. But I don't know the future, so just wagering an educated guess here really.
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Yeah I mentioned hating how companies are doing this. But even if we could list 30 of them that do it does not make it right
It is anti-consumer plain and simple. The worst is when the game itself is forced to their proprietary system... never mind CEs.
But yeah, it is just an strong example of wanting more profits them normal at the expense of the consumer.
You guess is towards more percentage of profits to the publishers... I would say that is a good guess
The only way it will fail is if consumers stand up to it at least a little (like we did with online passes eventually, just the bad will alone they generated was eventually enough for them to pull back out of it and admit they were wrong. Same goes for the immediate reversal of XBox One's anti consumer used game system).