| greenmedic88 said: $2.99 to $49.99 I'm guessing, with everything in between. As for the whole digital vs. physical, even with physical media, you don't actually "own" anything but a license. The media itself is just a delivery device for said licensed content. I know a lot of people don't like to think of software (or music, video, whatever) this way, but it is. And while there are still people who buy retail PC games (which are currently nothing more than installer disks and in some cases still function as disk check DRM security measures), DD services like Steam have pretty much proven that physical media is no longer required to distribute games. A lot of people like to collect and sell/buy/trade used media; that's fine. This will never go away, but collectors who prefer physical media for reasons such as "I like displaying all my stuff and looking at it/touching it" are a niche minority that the industry really doesn't have to cater to outside of collector's editions and the like. The vast majority of consumers just want the content itself and this is the direction in which the industry continues to move, like it or not. Personally, I'll take the convenience of having an entire library of purchased games available off remote servers on any system I can access over a collection of physical media that has to be physically accounted for and transported/stored everywhere I go. I say this as someone who has hundreds of retail games, close to a thousand retail movies, and several hundred retail CDs. That's a lot of unnecessary plastic that I don't have immediate access as a lot of it's in storage or simply buried among various piles/boxes of media. |
Then the industry doesn't deserve my money.
