| golfgt170 said:
In my mail i get a digital receipt eveytime. So yeah, i think i own the game forever as with physical |
It's not purely about resell, if I owned all my games digitally, 128gb would not be enough. I also tend to pay less for the physical version with a nice box for my shelf than I would have to do getting the game digitally. (I paid £17.85 for Borderlands 2 day of release vs £19.99 for the digital version for example) So it is more economical to buy physical too giving even less reason to buy digital where possible.
You are paying for a license to play the game, however if for any reason something should happen, such as Sony do go bankrupt and PSN no longer exists, you have no way of recovering your software should anything happen to it (and it would all need to already be downloaded onto memory cards if you work by filling up your card, then deleting old stuff to replace it with newer stuff).
It's not out of the realms of possibility, and yes, PlayStation is a strong brand, but if Sony did go under or the brand was sold to another company, there would be no requirement for them to retain support for legacy software. So as much as you feel you own it. There is still an off switch that is much easier to flick than you have with physical.
As I said, I do have quite a lot of digital stuff too, I just refuse to pay over £15 for anything and it is always a lower priority than picking up the physical releases I want.
I used to keep everything I bought too, but then a change in circumstance meant most of it had to be sold. Used to have a room dedicated to the collection which I amassed with my dad before he died. I was able to raise an awful lot of money through it meaning he was able to do stuff with mum whilst he was still well enough (he had a terminal disease), which would not have happened were everything digital. So physical also paid for irreplaceable memories :p
I do miss the CastleVania collection though, and the complete UK Dreamcast set :(
RIP Dad 25/11/51 - 13/12/13. You will be missed but never forgotten.
