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Tory MP: Government has 'forgotten' UK games industry 
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http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/to ... try-634569

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The conference has the laudable objective of aiming to "tackle the biggest issues facing publishers and developers today: how to strengthen relationships with their playing customers and how to sell products to them in the years ahead through digital distribution."


Slip, misquote, or what he genuinely said? ;)

He's right IMO, but I read Private Eye, and can't help wondering just how closely Sony, Nintendo and that company who makes gaming aircraft engines ;) are seated around him :oops:

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Bloody tories will latch onto anything won't they.

As much as I like gaming, there are more important things to worry about and aside from fashionable sniping aimed to please the new voters who are too young to remember Thatcher, they don't appear to have any real answers or alternatives.

The biggest issues facing the gaming industry right now are the big publishers buying up smaller ones and releasing utter sh** with a different number at the end. They can claim piracy is the issue, but when each PC game you buy is dead money, if it turns out to be sub-standard it is going to deter folks from taking the risk with their cash in future. I've all but stopped buying PC games now - they're often so badly supported and thanks to the EULA attached, they have no resale potential.

Digital distribution only makes sense if the prices are lower, but the shining beacon that is Steam is getting more and more expensive (Call of Juarez 2 - £35, FEAR 2 - £25...) and the Playstation store prices are frequently somewhat ambitious.

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