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DrasticDracon on 14 January 2015
riderz13371 said:
LudicrousSpeed said:
After duds like Destiny, Watch Dogs, and Sniper Elite III, I have decided to stop buying digital unless it's a good sale. Now I bought a game like Shadows of Mordor, just finished it, and now I can sell it or get some credit towards a new game.

Just out of curiosity, how much do you think you would get for Shadow of Mordor and where would you sell it? Gamestop?

SoM goes for about 27.50 at a GameStop with or without the case and manual. 

Nothing to get excited about but it ain't bad.



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riderz13371 on 14 January 2015
DrasticDracon said:
riderz13371 said:
LudicrousSpeed said:
After duds like Destiny, Watch Dogs, and Sniper Elite III, I have decided to stop buying digital unless it's a good sale. Now I bought a game like Shadows of Mordor, just finished it, and now I can sell it or get some credit towards a new game.

Just out of curiosity, how much do you think you would get for Shadow of Mordor and where would you sell it? Gamestop?

SoM goes for about 27.50 at a GameStop with or without the case and manual. 

Nothing to get excited about but it ain't bad.

That's not bad at all... For single player only games, getting back half of the inital price is pretty good.



rolltide101x on 14 January 2015
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
rolltide101x said:


If you lose your game you are out of luck though. WIth digital you never have to worry about that. I agree with you though about physical, I generally buy physical

Unless your account gets banned and then bam, you lose everything.

LOL I have absolute zero fear of that, Sony does not just go around banning people. Really all Sony bans people for is hacking consoles and showing abusive behaviour over long periods of time



rolltide101x on 14 January 2015
Shadow1980 said:

With physical, even if it goes out of print, copies still exist and can still be bought second-hand. With digital, if it goes out of print, that's it. If you lose your digital copy and it's no longer available, you're out of luck. The servers for older systems won't be around forever, as the removal of support for the original Xbox demonstrated. If you lost your DLC for any OG Xbox games, you can't re-download it (though Halo 2's DLC was all released in disc form). If you bought Batman: Arkham Asylum digitally for your 360 and MS stops supporting the 360 and your hard drive gets wiped, stolen, destroyed, or whatever, then what? Meanwhile, if you lose your copy of Batman: The Video Game for the NES...

And if it turns out you don't like the game or you don't want it anymore, good luck selling it off or giving it to a friend if you bought it digitally. You're stuck with it. It has no resale value because it cannot be resold. You own nothing. You gave up ownership and first-sale rights when you went digital.

Digital is overrated.

Eh, you have no idea how long Sony and MS will support the PS360 servers. May as well get used to digital it will probably be all there is next gen (besides Nintendo)

I work in IT running a server for old games 10 years from now will not cost that much, because for the most part people do not play games after they get 5+ years old. As I stated you are in more danger of something happening to your physical copy than losing your digital copy. One more thing is disc media is not going to last for forever...... Optical Media was not designed to last for extended periods of time....



dukerx2 on 14 January 2015

Thanks everyone



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RenCutypoison on 14 January 2015
dukerx2 said:

Im a gamer who is struggling with replacing a bookshelf full of games with a library of games I can't hold and admire. For example,  Danganronpa is on sale on PSN for $20 or Ebay has it for $40. I love having physical games but is save $20 my wake up call? I know it boils down to what I want and can afford, but itbe nice to hear some opinions on the subject. Thanks.


I only buy retail games day one or FW, when I'm hyped. Everything else I usually get for the lowest price digitally.

I already established in the last gen what were my limits, what games I absolutely wanted on my shelves and the ones I just want to play.

The best IMO is to buy it digitally and see in a month or two if you regret it or not.



Jranation on 14 January 2015

All my games are in Physical!
BUT!!!
If it would save you money in buying digital ( like 50%+ ) i would say digital. But it also depends on your memory space. Especially with the PsVita memory card ( expensive )

Or you could use the remaining $20 and more to buy a bigger memory card.



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