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How do you buy your games during the COVID19 pandemic?

Digital 292 37.15%
 
Delivery 192 24.43%
 
Online Pickup/Curbside Pickup 12 1.53%
 
Buy At The A Store 62 7.89%
 
Not Buying Anything Right Now Due to Backlog 153 19.47%
 
Not Interested In Anything At The Moment 57 7.25%
 
Other (yeah...I have no i... 18 2.29%
 
Total:786

I've been buying pretty much exclusively digital all gen, so in that regard, the virus hasn't really made any impact on me.



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99% since 2010.

100% since May 2015.


Last physical game I bought was Disney Infinity 2.0 for PS Vita.

Would consider going Physical again if they offered a digital code with physical games like the Movie industry, but I am not going to limit the accessibility of my collection to the one disc that is in the system.



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If I did buy, it would be digital on PC, and mostly physical on consoles, which I'd get delivered home, but I'm not planning on buying games any time soon at the moment. My backlog could easily get me through this whole year without any problems.



My backlog is big enough to keep me going for another 5 years or more :/

The last physical game I bought was Death Stranding. I spend over 300 hours on that game.
I bought one more game after, Dreams, digital edition since it's all digital anyway. Dreams alone is enough never to need any new games anymore...



During the COVID19 pandemic, it's digital. As i bought Doom Eternal serial code via authorized third party storefront 3 days ago, because game stores/retailers and malls closed temporarily not even they can deliver anymore, the curfew started from yesterday causing them the harder to sell any physical media anyway.

The curfew will probably end this week Thursday DEPENDS on citizens when they learn not to go out somewhere, then i can able to buy physical games by delivery.



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Looks like if the rumours are true about the weaker Xbox being digital only I don’t think it’ll be a big issue.

I buy purely digital for about 6 years now. I only buy physical copies to collect. Like I buy every Halo and my wife buys every Assassins Creed game to showcase on the shelf.



Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles. 

 

Only game I've bought is Animal Crossing, which I planned on buying digitally since it's the kind of game I want with me at all times. I'll probably wind up going digitally for all other things as well. I typically lean that way anyway.



Not buying anything right now but its because im not interested in anything at the moment of the pandemic. When FF7 hits the store I'll probably buy it physically tho.



I open the steam store page, navigate to the game I want, click on "add to cart" and then I buy it and download and install it. The same way I did it since I had a steam account.



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Everything below € 20 I buy digital. Everything above € 30 I order online with delivery. So business as usual.