I prefer physical because then I at least own what I've bought. Of course I don't own all the rights to the content etc. but at least I own that copy and can do whatever I want with it. That is, unless there's DRM but that's even a more common problem with digital (online) distribution.

Digital distribution is fine, too, if it's completely DRM-free, like GOG.com for example. Then I can burn the game on a CD/DVD and have almost the same functionality as I would have with a normal physical copy. Well, I can't sell it of course and that's a slight drawback. Personally I'm not very much into that selling stuff used but instead buying used as it's usually a lot cheaper.

Oh, and I hate Steam. It's easy yet very terrible DRM. And they're ripping off us Europeans with their prices (or at least they were last I checked).

I prefer physical media. Its like you own the actual disk and box art. With digital you only manage to see the info on the storage device and not actual physical media.

I jus prefer the physical disk. Its just my preference. I like collecting and seeing what I collected.

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Physical, if they are the same price. Digital, if it is substantially cheaper.

Physical disks have more value to them. I can trade it in, or take the game/movie to play on another system.

physical. digital is too easily lost and takes time. physical, you can get in a jiffy and you get the feeling of actually possesing sometin

Physical format, of course.

Only thing I don't like about DD is that I don't really feel like I own it, and an more just renting. I still like going back and playing some of my very old games. With DD if they take them down from te servers then I can't play that game again...

I think that companies just need to smarten up a lot ...

I can go out and inexpensively buy 1TB of hard-drive space and fill it with 1,000 DVD movies or over 100 1080p movies with very little effort at a very low cost. Pirates are far more efficient than the official distribution channels and most movies are available for download weeks or months before they're actually released. When content is cheap enough ($5 DVDs for example) when people see that a movie is available they buy it without question, but when it is more expensive ($30 Blu-Ray movies) people are far more likely to download the movie and stream it to their TV or burn it to disc; on top of this, when content is inexpensive (like allofmp3 was) people may spend far more money buying more content because they are far more willing to take a risk on something they probably won't like.

Basically, companies need to decide whether they want 10% of people to spending an average of $25 a month on a single peice of content or whether they want 90% of people spending an average of $100 on dozens of peices of content.

I preferthe physical copy instead of the download
becasue i like to have the disc

I prefer digital dl.