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archer9234 on 25 August 2014
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VanceIX said:
Intrinsic said:
i am digital only so far this gen, but what you are saying though technically correct, isn't entirely true.

key difference is in change of ownership. by law nothing stops you from selling your physical games or buying used physical games.

this is practically impossible with digital games. being that with digital while you own the license to the game, you lack the means to transfer that license to anyone you want. Now if we had a way to sell or transfer our digital licenses at any price we wanted.. then yeah, there really would be no difference owning the two.

A simple fic for this would be for sony/ms/nintendo to have a fixed license transfer fee, say $10 so anyone can transfer ownership of their digital games. So whatever you add to that $10 goes into your account. eg. you sell a game you own for $20, they take $10 and you get credited $10.

Change in ownership, yes, you are correct. In terms of legal ownership of the game itself, no one has that. That is the point I'm making. Some people believe owning the physical disc means you own the game itself, while owning a digital copy means it's only licensed to you. No, either way it is licensed to you. That's my point.


I never belived that. What I own with the disc is protection of issues that can happen in the future. I keep my consoles. And replay my games all the time. Will I be able to play my copy of a digital game 20 years from now or not? On the same hardware. And not being rebought over and over again. That is the reason people care about phsycial. If that answer becomes a no. Then the only other alternative is the hack the old system and pirate the game. The act of owning the property (not the games IP) is better, to me, then a file. Regardless of the tecnicality of the law. It's the loss of personal control, in every aspect, over said items that people want.

No ones refuting that we don't own the IP of the game. Games for Windows Live is a perfect example of things I don't want to deal with. It failed. But my games like Just Cause 2, Super Street Fighter 4 AE, and GTA IV can all be screwed because of this problem. Luckly Steam exsists to save people. If they didn't, or they failed at some point too, I'd have to pirate my non functional games. But again, I don't want to rely on things I can't control.