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Forums - Gaming - Digital or retail. Which hits your wallet harder?

 

I am better suited with...

The digital market. 27 18.88%
 
The retail market. 69 48.25%
 
Both, but I prefer retail. 31 21.68%
 
Both, but I prefer digital. 9 6.29%
 
I'll explain in the comments... 7 4.90%
 
Total:143
Lawlight on 22 April 2016
fatslob-:O said:
Lawlight said:

Quite the contrary.

"I am better suited with..."

"The digital market." (23.08%)

"The retail market." (48.35%)

"Both, but I prefer retail." (20.88%)

"Both, but Iprefer digital." (3.30%)

"I'll explain in the comments..." (4.40%)

You were saying ? 

Ok, I didn't read the poll question - thought it'll be the same as the thread title (which would make sense). Anyway, just a matter of preference. Most people didn't do their research before responding.



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Lawlight on 22 April 2016
John2290 said:
Lawlight said:

Ok, I didn't read the poll question - thought it'll be the same as the thread title (which would make sense). Anyway, just a matter of preference. Most people didn't do their research before responding.

Why would that make sense? How would people acuratley make the judgement? I'm not polling people for them to have to go through their taxes, lol. But anyhow, you and fatslobs back and forth was sopmewhat entertaining, don't stop now.

Just compare prices digital vs retail - for example, Uncharted 4 is AU$79.95 digital vs. AU$99.95 retail. How hard was that?



fatslob-:O on 22 April 2016
Lawlight said:

Ok, I didn't read the poll question - thought it'll be the same as the thread title (which would make sense). Anyway, just a matter of preference. Most people didn't do their research before responding.

Didn't do their research ? LOL, almost anyone that comes here on a frequent basis is probably educated about game sales and that includes pricing strategies too ... 



SvennoJ on 22 April 2016

I prefer retail. Only buy digital when it's really cheap.

I could pay an extra $156 a year for a total of $1056 a year for unlimited internet. Yet it's bloody expensive enough already. Plus I prefer physical anyway, can resell them, much faster to re-install, and I like to collect the great games. New games are usually the same or cheaper at retail, old games Steam wins, yet second hand pretty much always beats any console 'deals'.

Btw why would a digital only future lower prices? Seems digital isn't bothered about competing with second hand sales at all. Closed eco systems are a monopoly, which negates competition.
Blaming retail stores for keeping digital prices high is nothing but a smoke screen. Do you you really think publishers don't like that deliciously high margin on digital. People are lazy, charge extra. Renting movies online is more expensive than it was renting them at Blockbuster! Physical blu-rays are often cheaper than buying their digital versions and besides better quality and sound they even include a digital copy! Pay extra for the convenience of not having to get up of the couch.



Lawlight on 22 April 2016
fatslob-:O said:
Lawlight said:

Ok, I didn't read the poll question - thought it'll be the same as the thread title (which would make sense). Anyway, just a matter of preference. Most people didn't do their research before responding.

Didn't do their research ? LOL, almost anyone that comes here on a frequent basis is probably educated about game sales and that includes pricing strategies too ... 

Nah, I don't think they are. On top of that, the majority of posters here are Nintendo fans which would explain why a lot think that digital is more expensive.



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fatslob-:O on 22 April 2016
Lawlight said:

Nah, I don't think they are. On top of that, the majority of posters here are Nintendo fans which would explain why a lot think that digital is more expensive.

You may not but the fact that they go on here to seek knowledge about it is enough evidence to show that they know these matters plus every once in a while this community do deal threads too which give them more experience ... 

If it was just Nintendo posters then why do the vast majority of Sony or Microsoft posters in this thread prefer retail ? How do you explain that ?



Zisbest on 22 April 2016
hershel_layton said:
Zisbest said:
Easily retrail. I rarely buy any digital games.

what if there's a digital only game?

Eh, I generally don't really hate on digital games. If I'm interested in a digital only game, I'll go out of my way and buy it. Although if the option is given, I'd always go for a retail copy.



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Lawlight on 22 April 2016
John2290 said:
Lawlight said:

Nah, I don't think they are. On top of that, the majority of posters here are Nintendo fans which would explain why a lot think that digital is more expensive.

This is a site based around statistics and one that got most of its userbase at the start of the PS3s life cycle, you don't think that the userbase that stuck around are sticklers for facts, stats and research? 

Well, I'm not seeing any statistics about consoles' digital vs retail prices.



SvennoJ on 22 April 2016
John2290 said:
SvennoJ said:

I prefer retail. Only buy digital when it's really cheap.

I could pay an extra $156 a year for a total of $1056 a year for unlimited internet. Yet it's bloody expensive enough already. Plus I prefer physical anyway, can resell them, much faster to re-install, and I like to collect the great games. New games are usually the same or cheaper at retail, old games Steam wins, yet second hand pretty much always beats any console 'deals'.

And then it turns out its not actually "unlimited" and is subject to a fair usage agrement of 300 gb...and then the bill comes an 800 fucking euro bill (Which I avoided paying out of principle,assholes). Yes this happened to me. And again on a bill pay 3g dongle, another 500 euro (which I had to pay, much more agressive debt company, up close and personal shit, almost load sharkish) after steam insisted on downloading a bunch of games after I specifically hit stop on them. After the third time this happened to me after connecting my phone to the wrong network, my 3g instead of the free apartment buildings net and running up another 300 plus bill I decided t6o scrap bill pay services (Not that I can get any DSL/fiber where I am living right now, I'm stuck with 3g here, and I've gone pre paid, where I get to control the cost myself.  My apartment building access point won't stay stable on the ps4 no matter what I try even though its quick enough on my other devices. Moral of the story, always read the small print and apparently in the ISP world "Unlimited" doesn't actually mean unlimited.

Ouch. I've been hit by overage charges too but never that extreme luckily. I did regularly have a $300 phone bill from dial up while playing Everquest back in the day. Currently we're on 270GB a month through some grandfather bonus package deal, although the fuckers now charge me $15 a month for a modem as the one we owned (from them) kept disconnecting 10-50 times a day. Ofcourse they won't sell the new ones, happy to collect $180 a year for it.

Mobile phone network is worse, 500 MB data limit ($5 per 100 MB over), always turn cellular data off to be sure it connects to wifi. And make sure roaming data is disabled. If you happen to be near the border and it connects to the wrong cell tower, that's $6.31 per Kb, yes kilo byte! That for the low sum of $80 a month with 2 year contract. Plus I still need a landline to make international calls. That's pure extortion on cell phones for no reason at all. It doesn't cost me any extra to call a cell phone in another country from a landline, yet cell phone to international land line is 30 times as expensive.

Digital is the future!



vivster on 22 April 2016

Re...what?



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