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Have dying light physical version pre-orderd and i still aint getting digital edition :)



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ktay95 said:
Price and convinience are why I still choose physical over digital


Ditto, except it's digital for me

1. How a disk is in any way more convenient than something digital is beyond me.

2. I'd pay between 60 and 70 Euros here in germany for a new X1 game. If buy digital from the Xbox store I pay $60 (set state to Oregon so no tax), which comes out a bit over 50 Euros depending on how strong/weak the dollar is any given month. 



Problem is AAA games are too heavy now, a 40GB download its too big, it eats too much space and (with my conection) it take ages to download. But with 10GB or less games i'll take digital version if its at least 30% discounted.



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The Fury said:
Burek said:
The Fury said:
I still have issues buying a game digitally, it's the idea that I might just not like it and then can't do anything with that I just purchased. The games digitally would have to not just be cheaper but significantly and there should be a way to 'trade' it back in if you just don't want it anymore, the latter is very unlikely so until there is a way, I'm sticking with discs, delayed or not. (I rarely buy new/day one anyway).

You can do what I do... Create a separate account for each game, then when you are done with it just sell the entire account. 

An interesting concept. Although a lot of effort, I'm a lazy bastard you see. :)

It's "lazy-bastard-friendly". About 15 seconds to open a new e-mail and another 60 seconds to create a PSN account.

Payoff: most of your money back.  Though that depends on your country. In Croatia, everybody does this and on buy/sell forums digital sales are even dominating over used discs.

Also, you can share games between friends this way, just pass the login data to swap/trade games.



I buy digitally when it's significantly cheaper, not a measy 10-15%... more like 50% or less than the original price!

So 15 to 30$.. even then, by the time they hit that price in digital form, you can have them for about the same used...

The other case where I get digital are cheaper titles, games less than 15$, even then, I usualy wait for a PS+ rebate (or free version).. you have it!

So in the end, most digital purchases I make are below 10$!

I don't see myself paying 60+ $ for a digital copy of a game, no way!



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Burek said:
The Fury said:
I still have issues buying a game digitally, it's the idea that I might just not like it and then can't do anything with that I just purchased. The games digitally would have to not just be cheaper but significantly and there should be a way to 'trade' it back in if you just don't want it anymore, the latter is very unlikely so until there is a way, I'm sticking with discs, delayed or not. (I rarely buy new/day one anyway).

You can do what I do... Create a separate account for each game, then when you are done with it just sell the entire account. 


Hey man, thats a great idea, thanks for the tip.



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For digital game, you own nothing just grabbing a license, i don't care how cheap they are. Another reason i don't like digital games, it requires account & better internet, but there's no refundable or money back guarantee, and one more thing, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo & Steam have permanent ban button & players rarely can report them for no reason.... You'll lose your account with games. Ta-Ta!!

I own a few digital games(Virtual consoles), but only on my 3ds. For home consoles, i'd stay physical, because i can get my money back guarantee.



never.



 

 

Angelus said:
ktay95 said:
Price and convinience are why I still choose physical over digital


Ditto, except it's digital for me

1. How a disk is in any way more convenient than something digital is beyond me.

2. I'd pay between 60 and 70 Euros here in germany for a new X1 game. If buy digital from the Xbox store I pay $60 (set state to Oregon so no tax), which comes out a bit over 50 Euros depending on how strong/weak the dollar is any given month. 

Storage space, downloading a game vs installing a game here in Australia is a big difference and I dont always have the game I want to play on my HDD. Or in the case of older systems... not having to even install the damn game vs stupid download speeds. The 40 minute walk to EB and then the 40 minute walk back (yay for exercise) is much faster then the overnight Forza 5 download only to wake up and see its not finished -_-
And yeah physical is almost always cheaper here.



kowenicki said:
Cobretti2 said:
never.


you wont have achoice eventually.

OT

I buy quite a few already, I have a 2TB on my xbox one now.  If it was 20% cheaper, I'd buy everything digitally.


as an australian resident like cobretti that day better be a long long way away. no way on earth id download 30 gig games on australian internet.