Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.
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Stay Strong. The scalpers won’t win.
So the PS5, and new Xbox have been out now for nearly 3 months and people are struggling to get their hands on one! With lots of parents having to explain to their children that Father Christmas will be delivering late this year.
I’ve been monitoring like I bet many of you have the various websites over the last month and waiting for the next stock release whilst being in awe at some of the prices people are paying for on eBay. All I can say is stay strong! It’s tough, it will be potentially a long road ahead but if this proves beneficial for scalpers it could be disastrous for the future.
If we give into the prices on eBay, this could spill over into further aspects of online shopping. Especially around Christmas.
Personally, I think online stores need to have better security to prevent this. Also a purchase policy for certain items. I understand that it is a way of life for them and this has been done on plenty of other aspects of online shopping. My partner mentioned how this was standard for concert tickets and it did get me thinking about how surely change and legislation needs to be introduced because of this. With the world changing and COVID forcing most of us to online shop and remain at home, is it not time for a change in culture of online shopping?
There are some excellent genuine Twitter accounts that help people like us get the gaming system we want and want get rid of the bot problem. Highly recommend following these guys on twitter as they update regularly.
@ PS5UPDATEUK – ps
@ UKPS5NOTIFY – Xbox/ps
Stay Strong!
The “Netflixing” of the video game industry.
I’d by lying if I didn’t say I used Netflix weekly. It’s a strong choice when it comes to background noise and rarely apart from sitting down with my partner will I pay attention to an entire series. However, now and then a good film or series is released and I’m hooked.
With the recent growth of Xbox’s game pass following the 2019 E3 where it was advertised that a good range of titles were coming direct to gamepass, I bit the bullet and gave it a try. I was impressed. Lots of good titles, plenty to get stuck into and some major first party games which still retail at a high price. I initially found myself wanting to try as much as possible and was taken aback by the selection and potential hours I could spend.
I have a strong feeling that this is where gaming companies are heading. with Gamepass/PS now if your spending a rough amount of £15 a month towards a service rather than buying maybe 3/4 games a year on release at full price? It works out similar however I have felt that it’s taken away the excitement. Maybe it’s just the selection currently and it needs to be built on but certainly in this current age of subscription services. Why wouldn’t these companies at least see if it profits them. But will it destroy the excitement? Why save and buy when you can select and stream…
With lockdown now affecting most of the world, this now only seems the way forward. The 2nd hand game market is slowly dying and whilst this saddens me, the demand is dying, kids want things now, quick buys, downloaded onto the system direct. With consoles slowly moving away from disk drives, is this what the people want? or are we being forced with the ease and sometimes ridiculously cheap prices.
What are your thoughts?
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