| Burek said: Why do you say digital has less value than physical? To me, they both have the same exact value, because they both do the same exact thing --- allow me to play the game. I'd rather have a digital game, as I don't have to store discs, wait for their delivery, etc. An even greater value of digital games is in the fact that I share all my purchases with a friend, and we both can play a game at the same time, instead of waiting on each other to swap discs. That said, I think $60 is fair price. |
They both don't have the exact same value, though. Get banned. Or, have your system lock up on you. Have both of those things happen. Those 60 dollar games you bought are now gone.
If you get banned, or your console breaks, you still have disc games.... Unless you physically break the disc, it still works. The main thing though, is that you don't own the games you buy, your account does. So, I would never pay full price for a digital game. Sony could get hacked one day (as hackers seem to hate sony) and your download lists, user information... everything, could go away one day.
They would probably have a plan to get rid of DRM to save themselves.. However, applying DRM to games should make the price automatically lower. It cannot be promised that I'll be able to play whenever I wish. Even still... What happens when game patches disappears, years from now? Tekken Tag Tournament 2 will make you start over if you're missing DLC that the save-file says you should have.
So, you redownload, or start over. So, even having a disc isn't promising everything will be okay... but still. I'm not paying full for a digital game. Not ever.
