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SvennoJ on 22 April 2016
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John2290 said:
SvennoJ said:

I prefer retail. Only buy digital when it's really cheap.

I could pay an extra $156 a year for a total of $1056 a year for unlimited internet. Yet it's bloody expensive enough already. Plus I prefer physical anyway, can resell them, much faster to re-install, and I like to collect the great games. New games are usually the same or cheaper at retail, old games Steam wins, yet second hand pretty much always beats any console 'deals'.

And then it turns out its not actually "unlimited" and is subject to a fair usage agrement of 300 gb...and then the bill comes an 800 fucking euro bill (Which I avoided paying out of principle,assholes). Yes this happened to me. And again on a bill pay 3g dongle, another 500 euro (which I had to pay, much more agressive debt company, up close and personal shit, almost load sharkish) after steam insisted on downloading a bunch of games after I specifically hit stop on them. After the third time this happened to me after connecting my phone to the wrong network, my 3g instead of the free apartment buildings net and running up another 300 plus bill I decided t6o scrap bill pay services (Not that I can get any DSL/fiber where I am living right now, I'm stuck with 3g here, and I've gone pre paid, where I get to control the cost myself.  My apartment building access point won't stay stable on the ps4 no matter what I try even though its quick enough on my other devices. Moral of the story, always read the small print and apparently in the ISP world "Unlimited" doesn't actually mean unlimited.

Ouch. I've been hit by overage charges too but never that extreme luckily. I did regularly have a $300 phone bill from dial up while playing Everquest back in the day. Currently we're on 270GB a month through some grandfather bonus package deal, although the fuckers now charge me $15 a month for a modem as the one we owned (from them) kept disconnecting 10-50 times a day. Ofcourse they won't sell the new ones, happy to collect $180 a year for it.

Mobile phone network is worse, 500 MB data limit ($5 per 100 MB over), always turn cellular data off to be sure it connects to wifi. And make sure roaming data is disabled. If you happen to be near the border and it connects to the wrong cell tower, that's $6.31 per Kb, yes kilo byte! That for the low sum of $80 a month with 2 year contract. Plus I still need a landline to make international calls. That's pure extortion on cell phones for no reason at all. It doesn't cost me any extra to call a cell phone in another country from a landline, yet cell phone to international land line is 30 times as expensive.

Digital is the future!