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Heavenly_King on 17 October 2018

makes sense since it is online only.



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Ayla on 17 October 2018
KManX89 said:
Ayla said:
Digital is the future.

Physical is outdated at this point.

I haven't purchased anything physical for several years now.

A digital copy that you don't actually own and can't sell/trade? 

And Acti put in a 50 gig day 1 patch for physical owners to try and gimp players into buying it digital, scumbags. 

I don't care about owning the physical product.

It just takes up space anyway.



jason1637 on 17 October 2018
KManX89 said:
Ayla said:
Digital is the future.

Physical is outdated at this point.

I haven't purchased anything physical for several years now.

A digital copy that you don't actually own and can't sell/trade? 

And Acti put in a 50 gig day 1 patch for physical owners to try and gimp players into buying it digital, scumbags. 

I don't sell my games and don't play them after a few years so for me physical does not matter.



Mordred11 on 17 October 2018

Trading/selling games is not nearly as common as some people seem to believe. I personally have never done it.



Chazore on 17 October 2018
Pemalite said:
Bring back the campaign... And I will bring back my wallet.

That and lower the damn price. No mod support and private servers just lowers my interest in wanting it dramatically. 



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flashfire926 on 17 October 2018

If this says anything, it is that physical games are dwindling away by the day. I fully expect the PS5 and Xbox 2 to be the last consoles with a disk drive.

Digital is the future, face it.



Bet with Intrinsic:

The Switch will outsell 3DS (based on VGchartz numbers), according to me, while Intrinsic thinks the opposite will hold true. One month avatar control for the loser's avatar.

KManX89 on 17 October 2018
flashfire926 said:
If this says anything, it is that physical games are dwindling away by the day. I fully expect the PS5 and Xbox 2 to be the last consoles with a disk drive.

Digital is the future, face it.

The only thing this "says" is that Activi$ion are scumbags. They intentionally put a 50 GB day 1 patch for the physical edition to gimp players into buying it digitally. They did the same shit with BO3's Back in Black map pack and Spyro: Reignited Trilogy (until the backlash).



flashfire926 on 17 October 2018
KManX89 said:
flashfire926 said:
If this says anything, it is that physical games are dwindling away by the day. I fully expect the PS5 and Xbox 2 to be the last consoles with a disk drive.

Digital is the future, face it.

The only thing this "says" is that Activi$ion are scumbags. They intentionally put a 50 GB day 1 patch for the physical edition to gimp players into buying it digitally. They did the same shit with BO3's Back in Black map pack and Spyro: Reignited Trilogy (until the backlash).

You think most casuals that buy the give a shit about any of that? All they need is enough space for the latest fifa and the latest cod, and that's it. There is proof of digital sales rising, and the percentage of total games being bought is slowly shifting toward digital as well.

Well, I do agree that activision are scumbags, but there are many other reasons to think that that are much more serious than this is.



Bet with Intrinsic:

The Switch will outsell 3DS (based on VGchartz numbers), according to me, while Intrinsic thinks the opposite will hold true. One month avatar control for the loser's avatar.

KManX89 on 17 October 2018
RolStoppable said:
KManX89 said:

The only thing this "says" is that Activi$ion are scumbags. They intentionally put a 50 GB day 1 patch for the physical edition to gimp players into buying it digitally. They did the same shit with BO3's Back in Black map pack and Spyro: Reignited Trilogy (until the backlash).

I don't see how a patch makes a difference. If you buy a physical copy of a PS4 or XB1 game, it will play from the HDD just like a digital copy.

Besides eating up an extra 50 gigs of space on your HD? It kinda IS a big deal. That's one whole game's worth of space for a single PATCH.

Seriously, fuck Activi$ion.

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KManX89 on 17 October 2018
RolStoppable said:
KManX89 said:

Besides eating up an extra 50 gigs of space on your HD?

The question remains: How would any of that motivate anyone to buy a digital copy instead of a physical one?

I basically answered it in the edit. 50B is a long ass time to install, that bit of extra time and space is spent NOT playing the game and eats up valuable space for other games or updates. Like I said, that's pretty much one whole game's worth of space. For.A.Patch.