theyarecomingforyou wrote on Jan 15, 2012, 23:35:
The pickle wrote on Jan 15, 2012, 23:18:
Digital downloads suck anyways. If I'm gonna spend $60 on a game I want the DVD and manual in my hand not some digital crap.
Physical items fail and consume space. Manuals don't even exist is any meaningful way in modern games; discs get lost, scratched and break; older titles become harder to find; compatibility with future operating systems becomes problematic; patches are hard or impossible to find, etc. Never mind the fact that you have to insert them to play a game or manually search out a no-CD crack. That's a fuck-tonne more effort than simply buying games digitally.
Physical games require more effort and are less practical than digital distribution. Sounds like an ultra-fail to me.
You don't own your digital games though, you own the physical copy and no one, no company can ever take your games away from your house. Steam could suddenly start charging a fee for the Steam Client and the way they are heading, they probably will. Gabe LOVES mico-transactions, the SINGLE most EVIL thing EVER.
If it is Digital, then it has to be DRM free and Client free. I'm slowly moving away from Steam to other services such as GatersGate. The whole industry is turning nasty, and very quickly.