@heretrix said:
@SolidTy said:
@millerlight89 said:
@LJS9502_basic said:
Why I like physical copies....nothing beats the physical....be it movies, music, or games.
I don't get it. They could have easily said no more physical copies to be sold. How does this affect the people who already have it?
I'm not going to troll you, but I will attempt an legitimate answer from my perspective so I hope if you do respond you can remember my approach as you have been known to troll when you get answers you don't like to read.
To answer you, it doesn't affect anyone who already owns the digital copies unless the digital service disappears...However, for those seeking to buy those games or future people that don't even know they would have wanted it but find out about the games later, new copies will NOT be sitting on shelves. There will be no used copies for them to track down either.
Basically, this issue doesn't affect people who own these digital games other than the online community won't be growing dramatically as the games get removed. However, it sucks for people that wanted to buy the game but never got around to it due to financial issues or timing. One such user exists here in SW by the name of L.Skyheart. He lamented in another thread he wanted MvC Origins.
This is the advantage of a physical market over the digital. A combination of physical and digital is most welcome, but digital only puts too much power on one side and when licensing deals end, you can't buy the digital games anymore. It's true, production ceases for both the digital and physical games, but there are differences.
When that same licensing ends for physical games, NEW copies exist in the wild, and better yet often times get discounted to make space for new games. On top of that, used copies exist on those licensed games if you can't find them new years later.
The idea of trusting an online service to stay up indefinitely so I can keep my digital games queue also doesn't sit well with me, and I love the ability to lend, borrow, rent, trade, or sell my physical games.
To be perfectly honest with you I think that for a lot of people it really doesn't make a difference. By the time the most popular digital services go the way of the dodo, the average user probably won't be playing those games anymore because they will have probably sold their system and games to get something new. I get that those sold systems will be resold to someone that hasn't experienced those titles, (a good thing)but most games now (the publishers focus) is on games that have to be connected to some digital service anyway and it doesn't matter if the game is physical or not if the servers are dead, the game is mostly useless anyway.
I believe that having a physical copy is better for the most part but seeing the way things are going, it's not going to matter if the physical game is just as dependent on being connected as a digital copy. I absolutely HATE the way tablet games are made; most of them you can't play at all if you aren't connected to the internet and that's total bullshit.
That said I'm not really against digital, it's like anything else really, buy from the place that suits your needs and is financially stable. I don't see Steam going down anytime soon and I can play all of my games offline if need be, so I really don't miss having a bunch of PC game boxes lying around. I'm more of a gamer than a collector.
Console DD is total bullshit. I really don't like the fact that all of the money that I spent on PSN and XBL is down the shitter because I don't want 5 or six consoles lying around. At least on the PC if I upgrade I don't lose the ability to play my damn games. It's really one of the main reasons I haven bought the X1 or a PS4 yet. Eff that noise.
I am a huge gamer as well as attributed by my Gamerscore/Trophies/various PC and Nintendo games, but I'm also a huge collector, it's true. I consider myself both and never really "picked a side" so to speak.
I daresay I am both types of gamers (hardcore gamer and collector), as opposed to being one more than the other. If I was forced to divide, I'm more gamer than collector, the collection is for my future offspring/visiting family/girlfriends. I too have hundreds of XBLA, Wii VC, and PSN games that I fear will one day be lost, not to mention my hundreds of PC digital games.
However, reading your post I can't say I disagree with anything you said. I know DD is bullshit moreso on consoles which is what I was talking about in this thread about Marvel Capcom games. When I go digital on Steam, GOG, XBLA, PSN, Blizzard, or whatever...it has to be a smoking deal.Sometimes that's the case, and for others I have to find that deal at retail, like Blizzard to get a second copy of StarCraft II, HotS even though the Physical copies basically digital, I got it for $15.Even Physical has it's benefits on the DRM heavy PC side, as retailers are always doing sales to make space. Mostly though, my post was about console DRM.
I love the idea of one box that has every game I've ever loved under the sun connected to a giant HDTV w/ amazing 7.1 audio, but publishers keep trying to needle dick their newer DRM into my business every time I turn around when they think I'm not looking.
As I said though, I don't disagree with anything you posted, as you offered your perspective to this chat.
I only posted to offer an answer to his question and give my perspective on the matter. Happy gaming.
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