the importance of owning the real thing as opposed to digital delivery

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#51 LordRork
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90% of the physical copies I have just take up space. The manuals I will read once, and for about 5 minutes...and even then most games have tutorial sections to explain how everything works.

I still prefer a physical copy, but many of the so-called benefits of it are just personal preference (particularly when it comes to manuals and a box).

Ultimately, as long as you have a legal software key, the game is yours.

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#52 Birdy09
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Yea ofcourse, Id rather remember my games based on the plastic box art instead of the actual content :roll:
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#53 Twin-Blade
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I like having physical copies of big games, but I'm finding I really love having smaller downloadable games on my 360. They have digital cover art & everything. Being able to jump between arcade games so quickly & easily is really great. I can play a level of Ikaruga, Hard Corps: Uprising, Dishwasher Dead Samurai & Super Meat Boy without moving anything but my fingers, instead of playing a few minutes then having to get up take the disk out, put it in its case, get the next disk, put it in the 360 & so on (it gets tiresome!).

One of the biggest draws for DD to me is that the games are tied to my account. I'm a paranoid person & always worry about a game being scratched & not working. So while my disks may get damaged & stop working, my DD games will always /be there.. Unless my hard drive fails, my account is hacked & the internet implodes! Oh damn, off to backup all my DD games.

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#54 Swift_Boss_A
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I only enjoy doing something if I have the choice to do it, if I am forced because there is no alternative then I tend to be reluctant and this bodes true to digital distribution. I am not against it or anything and I do support it but I will always prefer having a physical copy, at least I can take it in bed with me, LOL.

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#55 SapSacPrime
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I've been trying to sort out any clutter in my house for a few months now (threw out a hundred or so useless VHS tapes... why did we still have them :?) and now Im noticing our games take up a lot of shelf space :?, Im only buying games on disc at the moment if they have steamworks or are at an irresistible price. I still don't really want to part with my colection though :P.

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#56 Mozelleple112
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If DD wants to take over physical copies, the better start selling them $10 cheaper...

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#57 ramonnl
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I love to collect, alot of the times I just buy games because the casing looks cool.

I will for sure buy alot less if they go to full digital, probably only buy the big games.

The small companies will lose alot if they go this way, so i'm sure they will keep the casing.

if they don't, then I just buy the games I really want.

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#58 wirey87
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I love to collect, alot of the times I just buy games because the casing looks cool.

I will for sure buy alot less if they go to full digital, probably only buy the big games.

The small companies will lose alot if they go this way, so i'm sure they will keep the casing.

if they don't, then I just buy the games I really want.

ramonnl
it's the other way round. small companies gain a lot from it.
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#59 tenaka2
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I got Super Mario Bros for Nes in very good conditions, with package and instructions. some guy was willing to give me 200 euros for it, but I said no, as that game is a piece of history and more importantly it reminds me of my childhood. to me it's like a photograph. so many memories connected to that game.

owning something material is very important, therefore we should see Digital Delivery as an option and not like something that is gonna substitute certain products.

so, this is certainly a con when it comes to Digital Delivery, I think it's actually the only con, but I as a gamer will most likely always prefer to own a physical copy of a game, even if I have to do an economical sacrifice.. and with this I'm referring to services like Steam, with its tempting offers.

now this should not present a problem, options are a good thing, but I don't like the path Pc gaming is taking..

why am I saying this? well I'm primarly a pc gamer and live in a relatively small city. there are plenty of store that sell videogames and movies, but the department dedicated to pc games has been shriking in the last years, supposedly due to the growth of the digital delivery market on this platform.

I don't know if that is a worldwide problem, but I can only imagine that the situation can't be that much different in the other countries.

I used to hope that products like books, movies and videogames would all go digital, but having experience that at first hand, I came to the conclusion that digital products can't substitute the physical ones.

The only thing that DD has going for it over the physical copies is the fact that the only room you need to store all those games is in your hard disk, making it much more handy.

I'm guessing the next gen will make more use of dd ganes, but what says you?

wirey87
But all that plastic is bad for the environment. Plus it also requires a publisher, personally I hate publishers because the screw over small development houses. DD can remove the need for a publisher and so make it possible for small indie devs to PC games.
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#60 Lucianu
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Depends. 90% of the times i like having them digitaly downloaded on my HDD, like from gog.com. Ease to use.

But on rare ocassions i just gotta add them to the collection, and keep them safe on my desk. Like my Civ4 copy, which includes a 200 page book, and a giant sheet of paper on which are presented all skills that you can get.

Apart from Civ4, i have ofcourse the ones in my signature, and a bunch of others from my older consoles.

Besides that, naw. I have about 200 downloaded, and no space to keep them all if they were in their material form. So only on rare ocassions.

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#61 -Snooze-
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It's important for collectors and people who put stock into such things.

Personally, I couldnt care less. I just play games man,I don't care how it's made, who buy,what geezer did the sountrack. I just wanna play it till I dont like it anymore.

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#62 Ravensmash
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the great thing about digital is you don't buy games then sell them only to regret it later. With digital you can't sell them so you will always have them to go back to. imprezawrx500
But then if you regret buying a game then you have the option to sell it. Your point is more about self control (I've done that before) than an actual advantage at all. Choice being there is better.
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#63 Wisely321
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Indeed, I can't show off my whole library of video games on 10 shelves with digital copies.
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#64 skrat_01
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I have roughly 500+ games on shelf all physical copies - dating back to the early 90s to today, console to PC, boxed or cartridge. Does that stop me from purchasing digital games? Hell no. In the end you are still buying a license to use the software. My preferences lie in having a physical shelf of games - a library, however for the general gamer digital can very well become the most preferred way of purchase in the future. Cheaper games, internet costs declining, faster speeds, directly to you - and re-downloadable - and the developers themselves cut out publishers and can actually see bigger returns, as well as no pre owned sales. Physical will always exist however digital is very much where the future is heading for games in particular; all the evidence points to it.
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#65 Elann2008
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Physical. But I've grown accustomed to digital more, over the year.