By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

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
Mike321 on 22 April 2016

Recently I find myself buying both physical and digital games, so both hit hard.



                                                                                     

Around the Network
Barozi on 23 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.

Well usually when its "unlimited internet" the ISP will throttle your connection so you can still surf the internet and play some games once you reached the fair usage limit, but obviously not download huge updates or stream HD movies.
But there are quite a few that don't throttle you bandwidth at all.
So I'm surprised to hear that you would need to pay something once you use more than 300GB.



WoodenPints on 23 April 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
Lawlight said:

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

Great for Australia but that doesn't change the fact that in UK physical are the cheaper option. Uncharted 4 digital = £49.99, physical = £44 on Amazon and £38.85 on ShopTo (thanks to preorder discount).

Also worth mentioning that Sony are typically one of the cheapest when it comes to digital prices, look at an EA game or something and the price difference will be much larger.

Also the silver and gold loyalty bonus frotm ShopTo makes it even better and as low as £35.86, You can basically get the retail copy of Uncharetd 4 and buy Salt and Sanctuary with the money you saved getting a free game. :D

Also that Australian Uncharted price is an exception and must be a offer Sony decided to do as its generally AU$99.99 for digital PSN stuff but a good deal none the less.



AsGryffynn on 23 April 2016
John2290 said:
fatslob-:O said:

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 ?

Glad to see you two are still going at it, very much enjoying this back and forth. *Slowly leans back into darkness and starts into an overly large tub of popcorn*

Can I join you? *grabs some popcorn*

And digital. Since I use the US store and buy mostly day one I rarely do price drops and GWG helps a lot... 



Alby_da_Wolf on 23 April 2016

Up until now I've been a fan of physical support, and I still am, but since DRM-free versions made by GOG solved problems some old discs with crappy DRM gave with newer versions of Windows, I think they could become my first choice, or at least, I'll limit impulse buy of physical supports and search first if they gave DRM related problems.
But digital with DRM won't become my first choice for the same reason, unless they introduce a policy to remove DRM when the games become old, to keep them playable in the future even on OS versions quite different from the originally supported ones or if the digital service goes bankrupt.



Stwike him, Centuwion. Stwike him vewy wuffly! (Pontius Pilate, "Life of Brian")
A fart without stink is like a sky without stars.
TGS, Third Grade Shooter: brand new genre invented by Kevin Butler exclusively for Natal WiiToo Kinect. PEW! PEW-PEW-PEW!