May 23rd, 2010 
Cliff Riseborough Yeah…titles are not exactly my forte.
I see a lot of people putting up content around the Internet that I think flat out misreads a lot of the economics in the games industry. Hell, some of the stuff I disagree with gets put up on this site by Brad. That’s right, we actually aren’t in lockstep on everything. We all have opinions, and that’s cool…I guess it’s time to let mine out a little bit. A lot of people probably won’t like it…that’s cool, too.
First, obviously there are some serious problems with the economic model in the games industry right now. Nobody in their right mind would disagree with that. When you have games publishers earning record gross profits, and yet LOSING money on a quarterly or annual basis, something is clearly very wrong with the industry model. Let’s take a look at some of that, and also some other concepts that I don’t think are necessarily weighted in reality.
Game sales rates for items marked down ARE NOT indicators that reducing prices will increase sales
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We’re LIVE!
That’s totally us…only not so much comprised of sentient food. Oh, and I’m Master Shake.
Anyway, seeing as we’ve been adding content on here for over a month now, and we have the basics pretty much set up as we want them, it seemed like a pretty good time to officially announce ourselves.
So…errr…hey?
Despite the site name, we’re clearly going beyond the bounds of simply discussing DRM. That would make for some pretty dry reading, and mean some rather substantial content limitations. In other words : it would bore us as much as it would bore you. So, we’re covering things beyond the DRM realm as well, but still (somewhat) retaining a focus on consumer issues.
Since I’m a game freak, and am seemingly addicted to buying them cheap, I love taking regular advantage of the deals gamers can find online. Starting today, I’ll be keeping our new Game Sales page updated with the newest deals available from EA.com, Impulse, Gamersgate, Direct2Drive, Steam, Good Old Games and any other stuff I am able to dredge up across these vast Internets. It’s accessible from the page list across the upper header bar, or that nifty sidebar addon over there.
We’ve got our basic DRM Glossary set up…you can access that along the same bar, along with our purpose and a little bit of information about us. Have a DRM term you’d like to see added, or a concern about the site or a question? We each have a link to our email addresses on the About Us page.
And if you read one of the articles or editorials and want to chime in, feel free to leave a comment. A few ground rules about commenting.
-If you spam, you’re blacklisted. Your IP address will be added to anti-spam plugins that will get you added to Stop Forum Spam’s database.
-If you have more than one link in your comment, it will be held for moderation. Apologies, but it’s necessary to keep spam levels down. We’ll read over and clear any legit comments held for moderation ASAP.
-I love me some obscenities, but not here. Try to keep it clean.
-Flamewars, attacks on other commenters (or us) and fanboy garbage will not be tolerated and will be deleted as soon as it’s seen. We’re all for debate and legitimate criticism, but going beyond those boundaries gets your comment disappeared like a dissident in Soviet Russia.
Anyway, that’s it. Go about your day…and hopefully check in on us from time to time. We have some things in the works that we’re excited about…and yes, I am totally going to be the sort of jerk who leaves everyone hanging with something like that. BWAHAHA!