[quote name='Woocls']Nothing to ship.... it's digital!? I'd be more worried about the DRM than DR.[/QUOTE]
There have been issues with Digital River and digital game transactions like them not giving out the game keys when they were supposed to etc but yeah I think the bigger long term concern here would be the DRM.
Thankfully, most of the popular independent digital PC game stores don't use Digital River but most of the publisher based ones like Square, Ubisoft, THQ etc still use them unfortunately.
[quote name='aus_nacht']It's that price per item that's the problem. The whole motivation for creating origin is that EA didn't want to pay steam service charges and they didn't want steam sales "devaluing" their games. Same likely holds true here. People that are short sighted and looking at the short term profits. Same things that are holding back digital movie rentals.
Edit: It's a 15 year old game that's still in relatively high demand (for 15 year old games). Don't underestimate the power of old men milking IP *cough* George Lucas *cough*[/QUOTE]
Square Eidos still sells a shit ton of PC games through Steam and they apparently do so well there that they've pretty much made all their other titles in the last few years Steamworks. It cuts down on the cost of upkeep for cloud save and what not too.
Still not seeing their logic here and I'd love to see the numbers but if you're convinced their making a mint on this old FF game with crappy DRM on their obscure site and putting it on Steam would put them in the poor house, so be it.