I wouldn't mind the satisfaction of bringing a game home from the store.
Obviously he's talking about just console gamers, which is true.
Yeah if they're getting this data from PSN then it's no wonder. All the AAA titles released on PSN that I see are usually £5-15 over RRP. Not to mention internet so bad that it's worth just buying it for like half the RRP on amazon or wherever and waiting for it to be delivered.
I'd probably buy all my games digitally if that's where the best price and most convenient distribution was offered.
I think the optimum solution, for now, is to either buy your game online or buy it in-store if you like the box and register it online with Sony/Microsoft. I do like seeing my game boxes but Steam has taught me to revel in the vast library I've acquired online as well.
This should satisfy both manufacturers and retailers.
That's exactly what the Xbone was doing, JoeGWW... Not good.
The day it becomes quicker to download games than to take an hour trip to my nearest mall is the day I'll prefer downloading games.
[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;41171711]I wouldn't mind the satisfaction of bringing a game home from the store.[/QUOTE]
I can't remember the last time I did this, but it used to feel really good.
Except for PC games. Dunno why, I prefer to buy them on Steam and such nowadays.
I can't wait to finally get a new console and buying a heapload of games for it. Then I'll throw them all into an empty tub and orgasm in it.
I haven't bought a physical copy of a PC game in...4-5 years. 98% of the console games I've bought were Physical copies because the choice to buy digital is almost non existent, and they make it extremely inconvenient to buy Digital.
I think they do have somewhat of a point here; it takes a long time to download big bulky titles in places with higher DL rates, and some people don't want to have to spend a bunch of time downloading a title and be unable to do anything else with the system in the meantime.
This is kinda evident in Steam; like if you are downloading a title and try to play another game, you can still play the game but it pauses the download, meaning you can't technically do both unless there's a way to make the download and other game work.
Point being, the idea of being able to download this kinda thing over the internet is a good idea, but it needs a bit more work before we can truly master it. Also there's the factor of servers only being able to service so many.
The thing is the console(ps3 mainly) is not able to download fast enough. It took me about 11 hours to download about 12gb
When I use to own a PS3 I never bought the titles from the PSN store
I prefer physical disks
[QUOTE=ironman17;41171833]I think they do have somewhat of a point here; it takes a long time to download big bulky titles in places with higher DL rates, and some people don't want to have to spend a bunch of time downloading a title and be unable to do anything else with the system in the meantime.
This is kinda evident in Steam; like if you are downloading a title and try to play another game, you can still play the game but it pauses the download, meaning you can't technically do both unless there's a way to make the download and other game work.
Point being, the idea of being able to download this kinda thing over the internet is a good idea, but it needs a bit more work before we can truly master it. Also there's the factor of servers only being able to service so many.[/QUOTE]
You can alt-tab out of the game and resume the download.
Usually if there's a new PC game that I want, I'll go to the store and buy it, so that I don't have to wait for it to download. It costs the same anyways.
My main problem with downloading games is where I live the digital versions are often €5-10 [i]more expensive[/i] and they don't come with a manual, I can't lend the game to friends, I can't trade it in.
I don't have a lot of money, but time I can waste so heading to a store to buy the game cheaper isn't an issue for me. Spending an extra €5 that I could use to buy food or electricity hits me much harder.
[QUOTE=Del91;41171827]I haven't bought a physical copy of a PC game in...4-5 years. 98% of the console games I've bought were Physical copies because the choice to buy digital is almost non existent, and they make it extremely inconvenient to buy Digital.[/QUOTE]
The only time I ever bought a physical copy of a PC game was when I got Roller Coaster Tycoon when I was in like the 5th grade.
[QUOTE=ironman17;41171833]I think they do have somewhat of a point here; it takes a long time to download big bulky titles in places with higher DL rates, and some people don't want to have to spend a bunch of time downloading a title and be unable to do anything else with the system in the meantime.
This is kinda evident in Steam; like if you are downloading a title and try to play another game, you can still play the game but it pauses the download, meaning you can't technically do both unless there's a way to make the download and other game work.
Point being, the idea of being able to download this kinda thing over the internet is a good idea, but it needs a bit more work before we can truly master it. Also there's the factor of servers only being able to service so many.[/QUOTE]
You can just resume your downloads, just alt-tab out.
I'm pretty sure this is to prevent people from complaining about bad performance and such.
I can download 18 MB/s from steam, I'm pretty sure a laptop with a 5400 rpm drive would suffer quilte heavy performance drops.
Well I was given the Orange Box as a gift for Christmas and it came in the box. Didn't matter because I still had to download it all.
I would never buy a console game online.
I would never buy a PC game offline.
I'll start buying digital on consoles when it stops costing as much as buying physical.
If Sony is talking about retail AAA releases, they'd be correct. But smaller downloadable games are great.
Well those few Console games I own were ordered from a web store.
But they weren't digital downloads, which I absolutely despise for a console.
[QUOTE=I_Forgot;41171999]You can alt-tab out of the game and resume the download.
Usually if there's a new PC game that I want, I'll go to the store and buy it, so that I don't have to wait for it to download. It costs the same anyways.[/QUOTE]
Well, that's good news at least, though doesn't downloading things take up a good portion of RAM? 'cause being an XP oldster I don't have all that much to go around. But personally I haven't bought a physical PC title for a long time; last time I did it ended with space voodoo and all my choices meaning nothing in the end. Nothing to do with physical PC copies, but still unpleasant.
However, the last truly significant physical title I purchased for PC was Assassin's Creed 2; I bought it on impulse when I was in Sutton many years ago, and THAT was my starting point for the Assassin's Creed games. Good job I started on 2 instead of 1, since even though 1 had it's moments, Assassin's Creed 2 nailed the formula pretty damn well, and is what I feel to be the best of the franchise. Sure, Brotherhood implemented the whole "Summon Assassins" power which is admittedly pretty fun, but the first adventure of Ezio Auditore is still what got me into the franchise.
I haven't played AC3 yet, and haven't felt compelled to throw my coins at it like those crazy bards, but I've heard Connor isn't as amazing as Ezio, and I've realised that the franchise over time has become a bit too action-oriented; you're more like a mass-murdering antique James Bond in Brotherhood and Revelations, rather than a sneaky stealth assassin a'la the original Splinter Cell. Come to think of it, I do believe that Splinter Cell is what ignited my passion for stealth adventure, since I really did enjoy that game, and Thief: Deadly Shadows, and Assassin's Creed 2, and most recently Deus Ex: Human Revolution, even though the boss fights in that title were a bit out of place and "mono-solutionist", if you've seen them.
Regardless of all that, like I've said, it's been a long time since I've bought a physical PC title, since games on Steam are so affordable and they're easily catalogued. Even though physical copies carry tactile authenticity with them, they can be damaged or lost, and I only have so much shelf-space in my room.
The last physical PC game copy that I bought was a game's magazine that had the whole Dawn of War 1 collection for 5 bucks 2 years ago I think.
I do not have stellar internet. More often than not, if it's a new game, I will buy retail.
EH, it's not like the only reason console games are often bigger than PC games is due to worse compression the packaging and the fact that they have to include more pre-rerendered in engine cutscene as opposed to just actually running it in engine on the host hardware.
I rather download online then get a hard copy, I don't have much room to store hard-copies...
[QUOTE=Midas22;41171811]The day it becomes quicker to download games than to take an hour trip to my nearest mall is the day I'll prefer downloading games.[/QUOTE]
Well that is already possible in a lot of places.
One of the great advantages of consoles is the ability to share games. Not all PC's are the same and have many various specs and can only manage single player experiences for a single computer. I'm glad Sony realizes this.
[QUOTE=Banned?;41171724]Obviously he's talking about just console gamers, which is true.[/QUOTE]
People said this about PC games before most became Digital if not every game you can get you can get it Digital, consoles will follow soon, don't know why people are rather against it if PC already has been through the transaction.
this is true, but only because the prices for most games on digital download services are like £10 more than, say, amazon
even steam has this problem; I don't give one solitary shit about your service if it's more expensive
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