*Sound Of Rain said:
Care to explain why? |
Definitely. :3 I'll just make a list for easy reading.
-Physical games offer a more engaging/fun sense of collecting.
-Physical games don't put you through frequent hard drive maintenance and long downloads. PS4 installations are incredibly fast (under a minute) before letting you into a game (it can take more like twenty minutes on Xbone), so if I need the HDD space, I don't feel bad about deleting the install files for a disc-based game. I can just reinstall it in a minute if I want to play the game again sometime. With downloads, I'd be waiting for hours.
-If your internet has a montly cap, those downloads will put a serious dent in that. A single game can be 50GB before patches.
-Physical games retain better value and can later be sold if you ever want the money.
-Physical games will still work even when publishers shut down stores, remove title support, etc.
-If you like collectibles, physical limited editions are the way to get those. Furthermore, some publishers include physical bonuses as first run/pre-order gifts.
-People who buy physical games save more money thanks to retailer discounts, sales, etc. While there are sometimes good digital sales, they're a lot less consistent than retailer options.
-If you are going to pay the same amount for a game either way, you get more in exchange for your money with physical copies.
-Physical copies give you immensely more legal rights than do digital copies. Digital purchases are legally just rentals with terms that make it very easy for a publisher to cancel on you, even for suspicion of, say, hacking or cheating. Hell, accounts can get compromised by just about anything.
-You can trade and lend physical games with friends, if you're into that.
Publishers are currently trying to incentivise digital (despite its obvious disadvantages) because it benefits them at the sacrifice of the gamer/consumer.
