So, I just finished FFXV's story (23 hours in)

[setsunatenshi]

KLAMarine said:

Chris Hu said:

Not always you could play the digital version of Forza Motorsports 6 and Forza Horizon 3 a week before the physical copy was released and you could download both of those games even earlier than that.

I'm sure there are exceptions.

setsunatenshi said:

Cheating the system > Not cheating the system, it's about the only lesson I can take from this. I'm going full digital this gen and overall am loving it. It just sucks when the restrictions are actually applied to a set of people and not to some others.

But yeah, sucks for me, now I'll wait patiently, holidays already taken to enjoy the game fully

My worry is getting refunds for defective products: refund policies on digital copies are not always consumer-friendly.

Steam refund policies seem quite good as far as digital goes. As long as you play under 2h of gametime and within a certain number of days of purchase, they will refund 100% no questions asked. On the other hand, how can a digital game be defective? Other than the game sucking ass, but hey, no gamestore will refund you because the game sucks.

Also cutting off the middle man between the publishers and the consumer should lead to more competitive pricing going forward.