feed my impatience

I don't understand why game companies don't get the appeal of impatience.

I'm a 20-something who loves video games. I can afford to buy them, but I'm incredibly impatient.

I'm sitting here wanting to play a video game. I look around online and find one that I would like to play. It's 1am, and no stores are open. I go to the website of the game company, and I go to amazon.com. Both offer to sell me the game via snail mail.

I could do that, and wait five days for it to arrive. Or I could take time out of my busy day tomorrow and go to a game store, pay more for the game, plus tax.

Or I can go on bittorrent and get the game in two hours.

Which do you think I choose?

I admit that this is a morally weak position, because I don't like the idea of theft, and I do it less as I get older, I make it a point to actually purchase things I enjoy. But in the heat of the moment, I still will often choose the quickest answer, moral or not.

My point is that if the game companies allowed me to purchase and download their games at the click of a button, I'd do it. I'm begging you people, make it easier for me to give you my money and get your products, and I'll do it. Amazon could allow us to download games, it's not like it's even terribly technically difficult. They could set up their own bittorrent-like server farms and have us share the bandwidth between each other.

I've been expecting this revolution in digital purchasing for years now, and it's not materialized. Hurry up already.