Why do gamers dislike the move to digital so much? Do you guys still buy physical CDs to listen to music on, or do you enjoy having all your music collection on your HDD?

I know many people are afraid of restrictions and shit that publishers try to push on people when playing digital games, but I have also seen many people outright show disdain for digital in general.

Why?

Arseholes, I would LOATHE that. My internet connection does not permit me having to download 7GB copies of the game, basically because I am lazy, and if I am buying the title new.. I want it immediately. Because it has actually intrigued me enough to make a purchase. Having to wait a whole night or even 24 hours for the download to finish would murder me.

Opposite of surprising. It's really the only way they'll be able to push origin as a true rival to steam.

Really i wouldn't be surprised if they pulled out of retailers relatively early.

Even if all their boxed games come with origin, there is no promises anyone would use it outside the boxed games.

But it leads us to believe then that they will go 0% retail (from what I understood in the article). That's not really exciting on the long run, but the worst would be going 100% streaming, 0% DL games, 0% retail, as we lose ownership of our games.

I hope game shops aren't gone by the end of the decade. I'll miss them. :(

You can´t compare that to music. I have a very small HDD and don´t want to downlad 20GB games every time I buy a copy. And especailly games like Fifa, which I buy for my PS3 there I only have 80GB and don´t wanna download und delete it all the time.

And btw. whats wrong with retail anyway, it is much cheaper.

Bad EA, bad dog!

Believe it when I see it. They will be loosing lots of Madden money if they don't sell it in retail.

Cost-per-gigabyte is dropping rapidly. Within a year or so, most consumers will have over a terabyte of storage. Consoles will also be hitting the 1tb early on in their life cycle, if not at launch (MS and Sony, anyway).

Believe it or not, when MP3s started coming out, most portable devices only had between 32 and 64mb of memory. How many songs is that? 8, 16? Things change rapidly.