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Do you prefer buying a phyiscal or digital copy of a game? (Same price)

Topic started by Wolverine on March 24, 2011. Last post by Toryss 4 minutes ago.
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Post by MattyFTM (10,215 posts) See mini bio Level 26 / 856 ACH / 7845 P
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I prefer having both. i.e. PC retail games that activate on steam or another download service. That's the perfect scenario. I don't have to wait hours for a game to download and it doesn't eat into my bandwidth limit, yet when I inevitably lose the box and disk I can redownload the game whenever I want.
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Post by PhatSeeJay (1,274 posts) See mini bio Level 30 / 2003 ACH / 25035 P
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If it's the same price I rather buy retail.
Posted 2 days, 2 hours ago
Post by ShiftyMagician (908 posts) See mini bio Level 12 / 435 ACH / 0 P
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Whenever possible and if affordable to me, I will opt for a physical disc.  In the hypothetical scenario that a digital game provider goes down the drain (which can happen), I still have a physical copy for myself which I can install in with either the help of developers unlocking their games for use without the dead service, or by hackers with cracks to continue playing the products that I buy.
 
For now digital is definitely reliable and I often go that route for bargain deals on Steam at times, but as a rule I will never want to rely solely on any remote resources, which ain't just digital game distribution services.
Posted 2 days, 2 hours ago
Post by Wolverine (3,690 posts) See mini bio Level 10 / 37 ACH / 465 P
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I prefer buying the digital version just because I want all of my media to live in the cloud and I don't want to have to worry about scratched discs. Also, I hate clutter.
Posted 2 days, 2 hours ago
Post by Demyx (2,603 posts) See mini bio Level 12 / 208 ACH / 955 P
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I only buy on steam because of sales, other than that, I would probably prefer retail.
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Post by Devil240Z (1,016 posts) See mini bio Level 15 / 559 ACH / 7835 P
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Digital. Fuck having more crap in my house.
Posted 2 days, 2 hours ago
Post by TheDudeOfGaming (741 posts) See mini bio Level 15
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On one hand,you can give a game to a friend and never see it again...*sigh*
On the other you can show off....so yeah physical.
Oh and
  
Posted 2 days, 2 hours ago
Post by Slaker117 (1,054 posts) See mini bio Level 27 / 1699 ACH / 34045 P
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Depends on the game. If it's some big release I like having the box, but I'd be totally fine going all digital.
Posted 2 days, 2 hours ago
Post by Nikral (178 posts) See mini bio Level 23 / 1091 ACH / 9520 P
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Consoles I will only buy physical unless of course it is XBLA game.  
PC I usually don't tend to buy games unless they are on Steam or made by Blizzard (Which I get a physical copy because of their collectors editions and they do have download service)
Posted 2 days, 2 hours ago
Post by Gamebite (17 posts) See mini bio Level 10 / 2057 ACH / 36162 P
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 This is starting to change for me. I would like to stop buying closets to put my games in :P On the other hand if you have digital copies you can't resell them to a vendor who supports that.
 
But i'll go for digital just because it will always be there. With a retail disc you run the danger of damaging the disc and me not like that!
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Post by YoungFrey (413 posts) See mini bio Level 30 / 1865 ACH / 25325 P
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I'm not opposed to download versions of console games, but so far I have yet to see a 360 download that is cheaper than the disk.  And once you factor in that you can resell a disk for a little, the comparison is even worse. 
Posted 2 days, 2 hours ago
Post by KillyDarko (522 posts) See mini bio Level 30
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If we're talking same price here, then physical, of course :)
Posted 2 days, 2 hours ago
Post by Underachiever007 (1,104 posts) See mini bio Level 18
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Digital. I don't like clutter in my house.
Posted 2 days, 2 hours ago
Post by Butler (9 posts) See mini bio Level 8 / 328 ACH / 5790 P
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Physical. 
 
For whatever reason I'm illogically paranoid that one day companies will have an oopsies moment and deny all ownership of digital copies. So, I like to have the physical game in my hands to prove i own it.
Posted 2 days, 2 hours ago
Post by ultimatepunchrod (81 posts) See mini bio Level 8
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i like having the stuff on my shelf. to me, digital is only useful when its a portable device. but if its a console then i want the boxes on display i guess haha
Posted 2 days, 2 hours ago
Post by mfpantst (830 posts) See mini bio Level 15 / 766 ACH / 13120 P
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digital- I'm beyond having to use my optical drive often.
Posted 2 days, 1 hour ago
Post by iam3green (9,974 posts) See mini bio Level 12 / 829 ACH / 12835 P
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it depends on which platform. if it's for consoles i'll buy physical but, if it's for PC then i will buy off of steam.
Posted 2 days, 1 hour ago
Post by weegieanawrench (738 posts) See mini bio Level 24 / 1595 ACH / 31045 P
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Physical here. I don't buy very many games so clutter is not really an issue for me. And if it's the same price, then doubly so.
Posted 2 days, 1 hour ago
Post by Akeldama (3,368 posts) See mini bio Level 16 / 974 ACH / 13645 P
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@MattyFTM said:
" I prefer having both. i.e. PC retail games that activate on steam or another download service. That's the perfect scenario. I don't have to wait hours for a game to download and it doesn't eat into my bandwidth limit, yet when I inevitably lose the box and disk I can redownload the game whenever I want. "
Exactly this.
Posted 2 days, 1 hour ago
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