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Mummelmann on 05 August 2015
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S.Peelman said:

Can't see your video, so I'll just say what I think, maybe you actually say the same.

I buy physical because because I like to actually own my games. I like to be able to play them indefinitely if I want to. There's no such guarantee with digital because you're enslaving yourself to the will of the publisher or service provider, you're paying full price for what in effect is a long-term rental. They decide to drop support for a certain system? Too bad, you're never able to replay something ever again. With physical, I'm forever in control. I still play NES or SNES games, and until I myself throw them into the fire, I can forever do so. That's money's worth I'd say. Then there's the added perks of having a real collection and nice artwork to look at.


Physical formats do not have an eternal lifespan, you know that right? Besides, when it comes to consoles for instance, the moment they stop producing the hardware, you don't really have any way of playing those if your console breaks (and they do break).
If a publisher drops support for a system, as in servers, updates and other features, you'll be just as crippled if you have the physical copy, there is literally no difference here, you also have to consider OS compatability in some cases (Windows Vista was notorious for not supporting older Win 95 and Win 98 titles, for instance).
Actually, through services like GOG, we've gotten a bunch of older, fantastic games that didn't work on moder OS' before, so digital games has in this case actually broadened the possibilities greatly.
Besides; between digital releases on Arcade stores and similar services, remakes and emulators, you can always play games.

The collection part, I can understand, but I stopped caring about that a long time ago, it's not like I'm going to show anyone my games and I haven't really liked collecting things during my adolescence either.
I'm also living in a small apartment and can't even have all my books here, so hundreds of games, movies, TV shows and other physical copies of things would simply not fit in my place.

Do you also buy all you games physical on PC? Because, more often than not, the whole physical vs digital debate is more habbits of PC gamers vs habbits of console gamers.

PS: I also own a bunch of physical copies of games and movies, especially for PS2 and PC (around 60-70 for PS2 and probably about 200+ for PC, and over 200 blu-ray movies and TV boxed sets), I just stopped buying them at some point.