Too used to steam, I only use retail if it is on a huge sale or redeems via steam.
With the exception of steam, if they stop producing physical copies for games and everything goes digital, I will switch to console gaming.
And if consoles do the same, I'll become a retro-gamer.
There will always be games on disks, especially for those who have a capped download limit
[QUOTE=Canary;25676097]I think SD cards are more likely than flash drives.[/QUOTE]
This or Steam.
Nintendo with the cartridges, PC with the SD cards. Would be quite nice.
I wish Steam would have the same prices as in retail though...
I hate when I buy a physical copy of a game only to find out that it needs to be tied to my steam account. The reason I buy physical copies is to avoid having all my games tied to my steam account.
And it kills resell value.
I prefer physical over digital. My internet is slow so when I uninstall a game I know I can always reinstall it in 5 minutes where as downloading with steam can take up to 14 hours for some of the bigger games and clog up all the bandwidth in my house to which everyone gets angry
[QUOTE=BCell;25676232]I think all video games should go digital like steam and be sold online. Not only will you save the environment and the space of your cabinet, you don't have to worry about finding the game should you wish to reinstall again[/QUOTE]
Yes, prevent anyone that doesn't have a credit card from buying them causing losses in sales, not to mention download caps.
Also online sales compared to just going to the shop are very insecure, one mistake and your Steam account worth 500 bucks is gone, maybe to you and me it's easy not to lose an account, but for someone that only wants to play games and doesn't know anything about computers besides game controls this is crap.
[QUOTE=Pteradactyl;25688750]I hate when I buy a physical copy of a game only to find out that it needs to be tied to my steam account. The reason I buy physical copies is to avoid having all my games tied to my steam account.
And it kills resell value.[/QUOTE]
The reason you should buy physical copies of Steam games is to have something to prove that the account is yours incase you lose it.
digital distribution
[QUOTE=BCell;25676232]I think all video games should go digital like steam and be sold online. Not only will you save the environment and the space of your cabinet, you don't have to worry about finding the game should you wish to reinstall again[/QUOTE]
It would suck when the company that makes them or digitally distributes them goes under; I have a dozen (CD) games where the publisher and/or developer no longer exists.
I'd rather keep the DVDs
I don't like to download games
Or they could just get rid of physical copies of games all together and switch it to download only.
digital distribution is going to take over
I love the satisfying feeling of opening a new DVD box.
[QUOTE=exhale77;25684932]Floppy disks are where it's at.[/QUOTE]
GTA:IV
Now available in 10,840 floppy disks.
[QUOTE=Ray-The-Sun;25684095]
Stopped reading there because Valve are pretty much rolling in money.[/QUOTE]
How cool are you for being unable to imagine a single unlikely "what if" scenario among a shitton of very probable ones.
Have a bad reading for not assuming i knew this, not to mention their counter measure that i mentioned. It was just a thought experiment to support the rest which i find more probable and please stop bragging with you only reading half posts, it's not helping your argument.
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