How not to sell me your latest videogame
Monday, August 27, 2007 »
I've been sort of following Warhawk for the last few weeks, since the idea of 3rd-person shooting and motion-controller flying wrapped up in Battlefield-style gameplay sounds pretty good to me. It's now been up for purchase on the PlayStation Store for a couple hours so I'm seeing what people have to say while I wait for all the major reviews to show up. Then I discovered this little snippet regarding the downloadable version, via CAG:
One time [$40] fee for download or use solely by the purchasing PSN account on up to five PS3 units, with no more than one activated PS3 unit within a 24 hour period. Content may not be used by any other account.
I'm not planning on doing the "gamesharing" thing, but it would be nice for anyone to be able to play the game on my PS3 if they wanted, so downloading is out. Sadly, so is the retail version since it's $60 (still can't get over that price point). I'd wait for it to drop, but that's unlikely since it's bundled with a Bluetooth headset and I don't need another. I figure by the time something like that gets discounted, all the players online will have moved on to the next game anyway.
Warhawk, how did it come to this??
The very least they can do at this point is release a demo.
