scrapking said:
Why shouldn't I buy a digital game on day 1?! There are only two great times to buy a game digitally IMO: on/prior to launch, and years after the fact during a big sale. I pre-order most of my games digitally. I have Halo Wars 2 preordered. I did the same for Gears 4. I did the same for Halo 5. I'll do the same for the next Forza Horizon. I pay the same price as getting a physical copy, but I get way, way more out of it (most especially the ability to play it both at work on my breaks, and at home, with one purchase and no need to drag a disc back and forth). I stepped on and cracked a game disc once (Skies of Arcadia for Dreamcast, sob!). I have a friend who had a break-in and had a tonne of game discs stolen, and they didn't even have a recent list of what they had so they weren't sure what was missing. Game consoles are generally quieter for digital games (installation, if not gameplay). On my 150Mb/s connection they download plenty fast, but even on my old 30Mb/s connection I was satisfied by the rate at which they downloaded, and if you pre-order you can generally pre-download anyway. The trend is towards being able to play four days early if you go digital. After collecting console games since the early '80s, I'm getting tired of ever-growing boxes/displays full of games since I live in a finite amount of space. I'm tired of dusting them, alphabetizing them, storing them, moving them, misfiling them (wrong disc in wrong box), losing them, braking them, and spending mental energy worrying about all of the above. I'm done. I haven't bought a single game disc this generation and won't. I'd pay up to twice as much for the digital copy, because that's like getting two copies for me anyway (one for home and one for work), although generally I pay the same or less. That's cool if you feel differently than me, and I can understand why it would be a bummer to have to pay more to get it at launch in the UK, but even if I lived in the UK I expect I would get them digitally since they're less than twice as much (and no, I have no interest in dragging a game disc back and forth with me between home and work, periodically forgetting it at one place or the other, grabbing the box and not realizing the game disc isn't inside, someone at work losing it or wrecking it, etc.). Given all of the above, I'm genuinely curious why you think getting it digitally on day 1 is a bad plan. Care to elaborate? |
If i'm going to buy a game day 1 and pay 60$ which i don't do often, i want the box, 60$ for air is just too much.
Digital for me is great for those games that i was mildly interested in but never got around to buy and eventually forgot about.
Also good for franchises i don't really care about collecting, like Wolfenstein or Far Cry for example.
