The gaming industry could stand to ask itself this more often

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oops this wasn't directed at me but hello!! two cents
I am personally hugely against restricted game downloads buuuuut I don't see much of a problem with this idea, because it's not about restricting consumers so much as making sure everyone's on even ground. If you had to download it when it came out, you'd be behind people with physical copies. If you got to download and play it ahead of time, that wouldn't be fair to people who waited for physical copies. I just see this as ensuring the release date is as advertised for everyone?

 

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Physical stuff arrives at widly different times. You can't release a digital game before a retail one because digital isn't a big enough player yet.
Like I remember books would arrive at the book store MONTHS before the release date, but they won't sell it until they can be sure everyone will have it
I remember when I was young I asked a guy at toys R Us about some Yu Gi Oh cards that were supposed to come out. I didn't know and neither did the guy I talekd to, but apparently the booster packs were meant to be sold in late winter, it wasn't really near release. He went into the back, found the pack, sold it to me, and when I came back to buy more I found out the guy had actually gotten in trouble for it.

It's just kind of accepted that products are supposed to come out at a certain time

 

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Oh cool, we are soulmates.

 

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You know what I find really ironic? Massachusetts already has a law that does exactly what Obamacare proposes. What's more, Mitt Romney is the one who made it happen in 2006. Obamacare is even based on Romneycare, yet Romney is completely against it and not even because of the completely rational reason that the power to make laws like that should be restricted to the States. He just has to hate everything Obama does because he's the "not Obama" guy. Angry italics over.

Vermont has a tax-payed health care service since 2011 and nobody has complained about that.

 

Gee it's almost like the government is INCREDIBLY inefficient
huh

 

It's actually designed to be inefficient, and I think that's a good thing. If Congress were reasonably fast, they'd be able to get a lot more done that could possibly interfere with freedom, guns, and apple pie.

Stupidity, on the other hand, is unforgivable.

 

All of these things are overrated

 

Not having freedom is for damn commies, guns are useful for things like breaking windows when you don't have a fist handy or robbing a bank (it's ammo that needs to be restricted more than it is), and apple pie is delicious in more ways than one.