Digital or retail. Which hits your wallet harder?

[Barozi]

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.

Well usually when its "unlimited internet" the ISP will throttle your connection so you can still surf the internet and play some games once you reached the fair usage limit, but obviously not download huge updates or stream HD movies.
But there are quite a few that don't throttle you bandwidth at all.
So I'm surprised to hear that you would need to pay something once you use more than 300GB.