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PS4 Editorials 3 weeks ago. Editor's picks 3 weeks ago. Best Games August 28, Editor's picks August 18, PS4 Editorials August 17, August 28, August 18, While both digital and physical games go on sale often, you'll typically find the best discounts on physical games. Amazon Prime members get 20 percent off new physical releases, as do folks with a Best Buy Gamers Club account. Going physical also gives you the option to buy pre-owned games, which are usually at least a few bucks cheaper than new copies.
You can show off your collection. Sure, going digital saves you shelf space, but for some people, collecting physical game boxes is half the fun.
If you want to have a physical collection you can pass down to a child or loved one, it sure would be a lot nicer giving them a stack of actual games instead of the login to your Xbox Live account. You don't have to worry about internet speeds. Downloading digital games is convenient, but if you don't have a good internet connection, you could end up spending all day installing a single game. Meanwhile, physical games install from the disc or in the case of the Nintendo Switch , don't have to install at all , so you should be able to get them on your console fairly quickly regardless of how fast your connection is.
On paper, it would seem like going physical has more concrete benefits. But if you have a decent internet connection, hate dealing with actual people at stores, and want to be able to access your game from anywhere, there's a ton to love about digital games.
The truth is, many gamers do a mix of both — sometimes you'll see a physical deal you can't pass up; other times, you'll just want to download Destiny 2 without having to leave the house. Overall, I still prefer physical copies. In contrast to what I might have said a few years ago, I have begun to come around to digital games. It redefines ownership, and not necessarily in a bad way. In the end, I will always buy copies of games that I care about.
What does everyone else think? He collects old video games and once lied about owning Ride to Hell: Retribution as a cheap punch line. The convenience of digital downloads is just to much to pass up on.
So many games nowadays requires that you be connected to a server to play, and in order to connect to that server you agree to the companies terms—which they will not hesitate to ban you for violating. I own a physical copy of Chromehounds for the for all the good it does me since they shut the servers down several years ago. I think the debate is more often one of a fear of change.
If console gamers who have never experienced the joy that is a Steam sale had access to such, I think many pro-disk minds will be swayed away. I have started to download a lot more games because of the Xbox live free game downloads twice a month which is more than paying for the cost of Xbox live. For years I was a console gamer and obviously during that time I was also entirely a physical game owner.
Rather you own the disc itself. When I first built my pc, I bought a few games physically because I had no intention of buying digitally. But the reality of it was that when I put in the disc, what ended up happening was that they all just gave me a key for steam and a few could be used as a install source.
The nonsteam games were used as keys, you needed the disc in the drive to play, but not because the data was read from the disc, because it had already been unpacked and installed, rather it used it as an authenticator. Back when the Xbox One was announced, one of the hated features was that discs would be basically just installers.
It was a change that showed just how easy it is to negate ownership with physical as it is digitally. Rather, they just own the disc. Said disc can be lost, stolen, damaged as well. You still own the disc, only the distinction is that you can still lose access to the game even with the disc.
And as somebody has mentioned below, this could easily also occur if you needed online access and some account to play anyway. So how does one be secure in their access. Well, the people that go on all of the time about the evil publishers taking away access to digital games, seem more than willing to trust them with physical media.
It is apparently through their goodwill I guess that you can still play many games through physical media. This is why there are so few stories of people losing access to all of their games. Businesses are businesses, they react to market demands and incentives. If some publisher ever made it a habit of removing access, then they would be punished by the market due to people choosing not to buy from them anymore.
Any market that rewarded such behavior deserved it. But there is another huge check on such behavior. Now, one might be very much against piracy itself. But imagine somebody stole your physical copy of a game and you knew who did it. Chances are you would go and get it back somehow. I see pirating a digital game after having it stolen from you to be in the same camp. Gaining the ability to do so is like arming myself against intruders.
So many people are against even the possibility to do so in those situations as bad. Speaking of robbery. Have you ever lent a game out to a friend or family member and never gotten it back?
What about actual robbery where somebody takes without permission one of your games. Barring getting it back from the one who stole it or the one who never gave it back, you are either out a game or the money to re-buy it. What about when the game is damaged or lost? Out the game or the money to re-buy it. As gaming is progressing, chances are discs are going to be discontinued. Disc media, even blu-ray media is incredibly cheap everything considering.
Even when you account for media quality and go for a good brand of media it costs a lot less for the same amount of space for flash.
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