Digital or Physical Disc?

Digital prices are a f***ing joke, physical all the way.

If/when gaming goes all digital, I would likely give away my 25+ year gaming hobby.

Lol physical discs. 90s are over guys

I'm scared of digital on consoles, what happens if microsoft or sony shut down there gaming servers and I had deleted a game to save space it would literally be gone forever.

Digital almost always

Why choose digital if physical is an option? Makes no sense.

Both. I buy Wii-U games physically, since they look nice on the shelf and the digital prices are often more than the physical. Which is reta****. I also didn't need to buy an extra HDD for my Wii-U that way.

On PC I haven't bought a physical game, since like... Guild Wars, or something. That was 2005. I've also stopped buying physical games for my 3DS, since it's nice to not have to bring cartridges when on the move.

digital prices are joke?

Hotline Miami 2 - 3.7 dollar

Skyrim - 3.75 dollars

bioshock infinite - 7 dollars

Rise of Tomb Raider - 20 dollars

Those are few examples. WHere the hell you see joke when disc is 60 dollars per game?

Both, as and when the situation demands.

Because digital no need to spawn disc, cheaper and easier. I have installed 300+ games and all i have to do is just click "play" and i can play game i want. It takes no room but when you buy disc you can only hold limited time until new console comes out and then you can't play older games and also when you buy new games you have no room to place disc.

I prefer physical medium for consoles, but I mainly use digital for PC gaming.

Until digital prices for new games become more reasonable, I'll stick with physical.

I just give link to steam account:
https://steamcommunity.com/id/KiPeHa

Why would you afraid digital?

Digital because no waste of physical space, no danger of bieng lost. this is not 1993 that we have to collect a phyical copy.

Indeed, at least on console. On PC physical is worthless and it gets good sales, though I only buy drm free stuff.

Perfect example of "the things you own end up owning you". If that happens and the game is so important to you after all that time just hunt down a physical copy. There will always be 'What if' senarios but none of this stuff is going with you when you die.

Physical all the way on consoles, i only buy PC games that are exclusives that i really want to play but i see it more like "rental" on PC. I want feel that i own my games and i cant own things i cant have physical in my home.

Disc

Digital, simply because I don't want hundreds of CD cases lying around at home. I take digital over physical any day.

Digital definitely isn't cheaper. Changing a disc does not take a long time. Game cases do not take up a lot of space.

Cause people are afraid of change, duh.

Physical Disc all the way.

I like the idea of having a physical release along with the digital version but I prefer digital downloads over discs these days. Due to competition, games are cheaper on different distribution platforms, and I don't have to worry about scratches and stuff. I still buy Physical discs but very few of them.

Both. And I'm pretty sure there is a thread about this not too long ago....

Physical or bust

On console, yes.

On PC, digital prices are unrivaled bargains. And if Steam isn't dropping fast enough for you or their major sales are still too far off, there's always the 3rd party CDkey sellers, from G2A, to CDkeyprices.com, Kinguin, among so many others. PC is the most competitive platform that no one should ever have to pay $60 (or $70-80 CDN) for a game, even within a week of release.

I'm 100% digital these days and luvin it.

My answer remains the same. Hard copies are nice because you can physically own the game, and digital copies are nice because of convenience and sales on Steam and GOG.

I game on console and as I said digital prices are a joke, I don't game on PC so your price listing means nothing to me.

Again I don't care to game on PC, I also don't need to wait for sales, as I have a good job that allows me to buy any game I want from day one.

Then why do you complain about digital prices, if you have a job.

last time I bought retails was when we could still order them alv free from Åland and they were actually cheap..

@thepclovingguy: Just because I have a well paying job doesn't mean I should sit back and pay ridiculous digital prices when I can get them cheaper by buying physical.

As someone who likes to go back and replay games a lot I really like digital (on PC). It's so convenient. Just browse my old games, double-click the one I wanna replay, wait for download and go! (sales pitch warning).

No doubt! LOL

Digital all the way people.

You need one last choice of physical: Because I do like just having a physical copy.

There is not the option of both.

I like physical, yet most of the games I have are digital, go figure.

How about option for physical because of collection? I also like to lent games to my brothers.

I buy digital on PC, and I buy physical due to a lack of purchase security on consoles.

I'm totally fine with buying digital on PC, games are pennies on the dollar, I don't have to worry about major infrastructure overhauls making games unplayable for the most part, I have access to my library from anywhere I am.

This is the age of digital distribution.... These companies still have to sell physical copies to please the many people that can't let go of their plastic boxes and discs... They've been trying to go digital for years; don't even put manuals in there any more. Ah, but change always seems to happen slower than it should.

...True, the console market is still behind PCs in terms of distribution.... It's funny though because console purchases (even physical purchases) are usually only secure until the next console comes out.... after that you either have to keep your old console around or wait until they 'remaster' it and make you buy it again.

Disc. It's the biggest PC flaw imo.

Just as I like the idea of owning a physical book, I also prefer having the physical disc. I also haven't bothered upgrading my HDD, so the capacity is crap.

I always choose physical discs over digital whenever I have a choice, but not really for the reasons that you list in your poll. The top reasons that I prefer physical discs over digital are:

1. This is by far the biggest reason, I just don't trust that I will always have access to the digital games that I buy. I worry about what will happen after the day that the servers that hosts these games inevitably get taken offline or what happens when the license for something used in the game expires. There are too many future uncertainties with digital games, but with a physical disc, I don't have to worry about these things since as long as I have a physical copy of a game and a working console, I know that I will always be able to play the game whenever I want just like I can still play NES games and that is comforting to me.

2. I like having a physical game collection that I can display on my shelf and hold in my hands; this gives me the ownership feeling that I don't get from digital games.

3. I can almost always find physical copies of games for much cheaper than they are digitally on consoles.

Digital just can't beat owning a physical copy of a game.

Digital

I do both, but I prefer to buy digital.

Digital, I have my consoles mounted behind the TV so I don't have to see ugly hardware or cables, and digital with no discs to swap expands where I can put the back there.

I like both options. For multiplayer games that I know I'll always play, I'll go digital. For games without multiplayer I go with physical. For example I steam rolled through Quantum Break in 3 weeks and traded in for $30 bucks. If I had bought QB digital I'd rarely ever go back to it. Glad I was able to get half back and put forth to another game.

I will get the digital version to play on PC.... but for the games I want to support, I will buy physical collectors edition for console as well, and keep them sealed.

Digital, it's an inevitable future.

physical.