Comments on: Direct2Drive offer Price match guarantee

By: The RPS Bargain Bucket: Overflowing | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

The RPS Bargain Bucket: Overflowing | Rock, Paper, Shotgun — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:27:42 +0000

[…] of those three places, you can get the difference back in store credit for D2D. The process is a bit of a hassle, you’ll have to submit a ticket with screenshot evidence of the cheaper price, but if you […]

By: Demiath

Demiath — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:25:31 +0000

At least in my experience, D2D downloads tend to include DRM which in practical terms are *more* restrictive than your average Steam purchase, so I don’t find the specific rationale for taking advantage of the price match guarantee to be very convincing. I use D2D now and again and they’re decent and all, but I’d personally much rather get the game on Steam and thus be the owner of an (oftentimes) infinitely redownloadable gaming license rather than the occasionally rather miserable pile of secrets that is an archived and tightly DRM:ed game installation downloaded from D2D.

By: Vordus

Vordus — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:06:48 +0000

In reply to Adam Hepton. Serious dealbreaker, really.

By: user@example.com

user@example.com — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 05:15:08 +0000

In reply to Quijote3000. The difference is that you can get exactly the same thing from another service, while with the examples in your post, you can only get similar shows at best.

By: Quijote3000

Quijote3000 — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:22:29 +0000

In reply to Adam Hepton. So, being fair, you haven't seen a single simpsons episode, ¿ correct? nor Futurama, or firefly... ;)

By: Mac

Mac — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:07:38 +0000

Why would anyone choose to use D2D in any case … if you can get it cheaper elsewhere then do that, rather than deal with these guys.

I’ve had to speak to their customer services twice and it has been a royal pain the arse both times.

In addition, look at all of the people having problems registering to get COD:BO at the weekend – they were unable to buy it as D2D authentication process was broken – if they can’t even get that right, what hope is there for them? I wonder how many sales that fook up cost them?

By: Lewie Procter

Lewie Procter — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:13:21 +0000

In reply to Adam Hepton. Aye, part of IGN.

By: Adam Hepton

Adam Hepton — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:00:19 +0000

I never knew D2D was Murdoch. *strikes them off the list*