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KingdomHeartsFan on 12 October 2013

All physical, I see no advantage for digital for me.



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burninmylight on 12 October 2013
JazzB1987 said:

Talking about consoles:

Physical! Digital for me has not a single advantage.

I can resell it.
I can collect it.
Physical has actual value
I can gift it to friends when I dont need it anymore
It costs less than the digital version most of the time.
I can still play it in 10 years (digital services can shut down)
It provides a price war (digital only PSN etc is just Sony/MS/NIntendo)
More people can keep their jobs if I buy physical because more companies are involved.
etc etc.

The only Digital advantages I could see are
If my apartment is as big as cage in a Zoo I can save space with digital games.
I can be lazy (and become fat because I dont have to stand up to swap the game disks)

But since even a small apartment can store several hundred games in a small sideboard and motion is healthy/Lazyness is stupid those two are negligible

For steam
I also prefer physical because It gives me the same advantages the digital version gives me. But when a game like DeusEx is like 3 bucks on steam I buy the game Digital (takes a huge amount of luck and time to find physical copies for 3 bucks)


You're on the  Disc Switch Definition workout plan too? I'm about to hulk out out my shirt from playing so many different freaking games! I flexed my pecs the other day and my girlfriend's panties exploded!

Seriously though, a mixture of both for me. Depends on which buying option offers the better deal or incentive at the time.  It'll probably be mostly retail, but I'm one of those people that has an apartment living room the size of a zoo cage, plus we have books and furniture to keep up with. Since I never sell games, space is becoming an issue.



irstupid on 12 October 2013

handheld digital for convenience sake of well travel

Consoles, I still buy discs.

PC i buy digital



iceboy151 on 12 October 2013

Are you people forgetting about the whole play as you download thing?



 

                          

 

irstupid on 12 October 2013
iceboy151 said:
Are you people forgetting about the whole play as you download thing?

Also consoles should just do what PC's do.  Let you download 99% of the game the week before and then download only the last 1 mb on the day of release.



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kupomogli on 12 October 2013

I like to keep my games so physical. That being said, my shitty ISP has put a 250GB cap on data usage, which is $10 a month extra every 50GB I go over. So my internet bill is going to increase $10-$30 a month. Unless I want to pay for their slightly higher speed internet for $100 a month plus additional fees tacked on since I don't have cable services, then I can get 1TB data usage cap.



fatslob-:O on 12 October 2013

No way in hell I'll ever go digital if we keep getting big ass games like killzone. LMAO 50GB is huge. Hell my bandwidth cap isn't large enough for 2 games so makes you think everyone else will able to go digital distribution.



RCTjunkie on 12 October 2013

I'll go digital for the multiplayer games I will access very often (Mario Kart, Super Smash, etc.), while the single-player games will be retail.



WHO IS JESUS REALLY?

techhunter80 on 12 October 2013

I'm gonna buy mostly physical copies because I feel like I own them more than digital games.