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| Mbolibombo said: Will take a look at your video later OP. But this is a topic warm to my heart. I play video games, I also collect video games. I will always buy the physical copy over the digital copy if I have the option to do so. I do understand the people who buys digital though, it's convenient, easy, and you dont need room to store your games (looking at myself, I have an entire room in my house dedicated to Nintendo for instance). Most things have been brought up here so I wont repeat what others have said but something I dont think I have seen yet that is in my mind a big plus to physical games - memories! I have a lot of memories with friends over a certain game some 10-15-20 or even 25 years back linked to a game. If I take a look at my shelf I see a game I may have forgotten but seeing it on my shelf instantly brings back fond memories. Also brings a lot of friends of mine together for good laughs as well. |
I hang on to likely broken floppies (don't have a disc drive to read them anyway) just for the memories. My older pc game collection is all in moving boxes, yet I have been digging through there regularly to figure out what a certain game was called.
Maybe you can do that with your Steam library as well, I dunno. I have a bunch of screenshots saved for the memories, especially from the years I spend playing mmorpgs.
What I dislike most about digital on PC is the fragmentation when you go beyond Steam. I also have games through Origin, GOG, Humble bundles, Kickstarter, and a bunch direct from independent publishers all with different accounts and passwords. So much easier to have them together in one place physical. I doubt I'll go through the trouble downloading them all again when I buy a new pc. Meanwhile my physical games are always there.
It's better on console but there too I now have digital games on 360 XBLA, PS3, PS4, Wii, WiiU. You still need that console to play it, but it's far easier to browse through a physical collection than to first hook the console back up, turn it on and check what's installed or check the purchase history. And that gets polluted with all the 'free' games and demos downloaded over the years. While my physical game collection are all great games that I want to hang on to, since I trade in the lesser games. My physcial game collection sits proud on the shelves, while my digital collection is fragmented, diluted with crappy games, all hiding in ugly menus.
