| Skidonti said: Digital is currently lacking the freedoms of physical media to adequately share, borrow, resell, etc. They're trying to catch up currently but there's no way digital takes over the whole market, especially not within the next 10 years. I think that would be ridiculous. Music started down the path to digital in the mainstream long before gaming did, but do you think physical media for music is going away this decade? My Barnes & Noble still has a quite large CD selection. And a huge DVD and Blu-ray section despite the pervasiveness of streaming for movies. Physical's gonna be there for those that want it for a while. Maintaining a digital collection just doesn't seem as fun as the physical alternative. I like to scan through my games like I'm scanning through a little library of books sometimes. Sometimes I like to look through them with no intention of actually picking one out to play. Sometimes I like to scan through them with a friend. Sometimes I like to go to a game store with them. Sometimes I like to hunt for used deals. It's just a big change in the feel of consuming the industry, and people get too aggressive or defensive speaking on either side. It doesn't help convince people that digital>physical if you start the conversation like "What's wrong with you? This is the future. Your physical media sucks because ____." I can see myself going digital in the future and not regretting it, but for all things gained there is usually something lost as well... |
What's wrong with you? This is the future. Your physical media sucks because... :))
Seriously, about the underlined:
Ever since going digital, I found it much easier to share or borrow games. Now my friend and I can buy the game together, and play it without need to actually see each other. With a disc, if I wanted to play the game from 8-10 pm, and he wanted to play it from 11-1 am, we would need to actually go outside and meet each other and swap discs.
Now all we need is one what'sapp or Viber message. No need for discs, no need for waiting, my friend can actually be 200 kilometers away and we can still share the game we bough together.
Physical disc will never have that convenience. And once we're finished playing the game, we sell it and get most of our money back, with which we buy new digital games.
The disc is now such an inconvenience that its value has dropped dramatically. Digital content nowe has a much higher resale value, and the value is compounded by not needing to spend money on postage when selling discs, or wasting time waiting for a few days for the mail to arrive.
