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Burning Typhoon said:
fps_d0minat0r said:
Burning Typhoon said:
fps_d0minat0r said:
Because publishers want to keep the retailers happy.

Anyway, why would you be interested in buying a license instead of a disc?


You're buying the same thing when you buy a disc? omg, people today...


Exactly... so why pay more and have to rely on a network for your games when you can just get your own copy to access from disc at any time for less?

omg, people today...

I'm not paying more.

Most of the games I buy are on sale and cost between 1-5 dollars.  Most of my PS1 games cost 1 dollar, or free.  Most of my disc retail, but digital download (Ni No Kuni, Red Dead, GTAIV) etc.  Cost 5 bucks.  I bought GTAV for PS3 just about 3 weeks ago.  30 dollars.  I'm getting stuff cheap, and it's backed up.  Even if the PS store went down, I would still have accesss to everything, and I can make copies as often as I need.

Even if I were paying more, I could justify it by saying I could have unimited back-ups as long as I had somewhere to put it.  When you get a disc.  That's all you get.  When it's scratched, oh well...

I've actually saved around 75% of costs by getting things on sale.  26 retale games on my HDD.  Didn't pay full price for a single one.

omg, people today...


Maybe in the US its different because you guys always have better deals than the EU.

Here we dont have flash sales or €1 sales and the games which are heavily discounted can still be had for cheaper on disc pre-owned.

Most of the fairly new games that gets discounted are not even cheaper than brand new physical copies you can buy in stores.

I've saved around 90+% by only keeping the discs of the games I like and flogging the shit I dont like (an option digital purchasers dont get)

omg, people today...