Finally received the last package from Best Buy, it's time to share my pickups from Black Friday 2020
First up a couple Xbox One Games
A Couple of months back, I found out about a Gamestore in Saint Cloud, MN, with a second smaller store in Monticello called Lewis Game Shop. I was up in Saint Cloud hitting up the thrift stores (Been finding great stuff up there) and had a stack of extra games laying around and it was time to do my yearly trade in and get what I get and buy some stuff. I also had a couple (5) discs resurfaced at $2.00 each Overall it was a great experience, at a great store with great selection and good prices! If you are in the area, it's worth checking out.
Let's see what I able to pickup
You know I love my Rally games
I love Robocop. The original 1987 Paul Verhoeven Classic is one of my top 5 favorite movies ever, NOT that 2014 piece of garbage remake. Robocop 2 is also another great movie as well.
I'll be honest, when Robocop 3 came out, I remember not really liking it very much. I don't know if it was because Peter Weller was not reprising his role as Robocop, or because (Spoiler) they kill Lewis fairly early on or what but I just did not care much for it. Over the years I have heard/read that it was not liked very much overall from most people.
About a week ago I was bored and looking to kill some time so I decided to peruse my way through YouTube's Free Movies, and came across Robocop 3. I decided that I would give it a watch and see if it really was as bad as I remembered, and to my surprise, it was not.
I enjoyed watching it and would watch it again. Guess 27 years makes a difference in opinion.
Give it a watch on YouTube - Free with Ads (as of 11/30/2020). Ads were minimal and short
I am a Staunch and some would say Snobby Physical Media collector in all my hobbies, Books (I absolutely refuse to buy digital books), Movies and especially Video Games. Now if you are a frequent reader of this blog this will come as no surprise to you. But, I will however admit that I do have some "digital" games on my Xbox 360 & Xbox One mainly obtained from Microsoft's Xbox Games with Gold deals, and I honestly cannot deny how much more convenient they are to just highlight, launch and play, especially on those days I am in one of those moods where it takes me 4-5 different games that I will start, stop & switch before I finally settle in on one. As you can imagine this can get repetitive and irritating getting up every couple of minutes to swap discs, put them back in their case and back on the shelf where they belong.
This got me to thinking, why don't Video Games comes with a code for a Digital copy? This has been standard practice with Movies for years now. In fact when I buy new Blu Ray physical copies they also come with a physical DVD copy and a redemption code for a "Digital" copy as well. That's 3 separate individual copies for one price.
The main thing I see is that people would make an argument about is the cost. Well chew on this, The week of release you can buy the Blu Ray + DVD & Digital combo pack for roughly $15.00. $15.00, that is One Quarter of what a new Video Game costs. Video Games when they are released are $60.00 and you only get one copy. OK, but what about the cost to make a movie vs. a game?
Let us take a couple of recent "blockbusters" like say Call of Duty Modern Warfare and Captain America Civil War and compare. I chose these two because I have full physical copies of both. If you lookup the numbers, you will find that Captain America Civil War cost 400 Million Dollars to make and made 1.1 Billion Dollars, where as Call of Duty Modern Warfare only cost 200 Million Dollars to make and made over a Billion (Activision does not releases actual sales numbers) Dollars as well.
Using those numbers, if games only cost half as much as movies to make, why do they cost four times as much to buy and yet they only give us a third of of the content that a movie does? When you sit and look at it, it really makes a person think. There is No Way a game programmer/designer is going to be paid anywhere near what Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle or Chris Evans got paid for their role.
I am not asking the Video Game Industry to lower their prices, go ahead and charge your $70.00, that is fine with me. What I am asking for is that they include a FREE digital copy, It could be on a separate piece of paper with a one time use code (Like movies) or have an actual downloadable file on the disc itself, that uses the physical copy you purchased for the key to install it. Or tell you what, I would even be willing pay an extra $1.00 for the convenience to download the digital copy, as long as I am the original purchaser of the physical version. Minecraft did something similar to this that I have used.
A person was able to buy a digital copy of Minecraft for $5.00 if they had already purchased a physical copy. I did this for both my Xbox 360 & Xbox One as it was an easier way for my Wife and Daughter to play when I was not around. My daughter who is 9 now, and I still prefer her to not touch physical discs, my wife has put games in the wrong case, which is a Huuuuge pet peeve of mine. So for them to be able to launch and play the game from the dashboard = awesome!
These are just my personal thoughts and opinions on the subject, feel free to comment or Email me if you would like to have a discussion.
Thanks for Reading!
