Digital or physical?

Radec · 1 Dec 2014 at 19:01

By this I mean, do you prefer having a game as a download, or a physical copy of a disk & case?

I'm unsure myself.
Having been using PC for a while now, I only have two games from a disk, so 94% are digital.

And glimpsing over at the massive collection of accumulated PS3 games, I kind of miss it.

Could ask the same for your Books & films.

dacads · 1 Dec 2014 at 19:02

I like hard copies of books but most are digital! Same with films and games, except old console games of course

Josh · 1 Dec 2014 at 19:04

Digital.

Nothing used to annoy me more than when someone would mess up my alphabetised DVD collection.

Now they can't I am much happier.

MasterOC · 1 Dec 2014 at 19:06

Physical for console ( resale value )

Digital for PC ( never letting go of my other child

)

FloppyPoppy · 1 Dec 2014 at 19:06

For pc digital can't really loose them or damage them, console physical for nostalgia and increased re sell value

spoffle · 1 Dec 2014 at 19:08

Whatever's cheaper, though I find if a physical copy of PC game is cheaper, it's usually a Steamworks title anyway, so becomes digital.

pastymuncher · 1 Dec 2014 at 19:10

Now that I have unlimited broadband I haven't bought a physical game for a couple of years. There are so many good deals on bundles these days that are too good to miss.

Books and films however, always physical.

JulioH · 1 Dec 2014 at 19:27

Digital now. My movie collection pretty much takes up all the physical space I have (not bragging, I have a small room

)

Malevolence · 1 Dec 2014 at 19:36

I'm from the era of big boxes and proper manuals, so I prefer to have a physical copy. Movies, well they have to be physical.

spoffle · 1 Dec 2014 at 19:38

Malevolence said:
I'm from the era of big boxes and proper manuals, so I prefer to have a physical copy. Movies, well they have to be physical.

So am I, except that I don't like big boxes and proper manuals. I've got too much useless crap as it is, I don't need more.

BillyB0y91 · 1 Dec 2014 at 19:49

Digital with PC games, physical copy with console and movies.

Raumarik · 1 Dec 2014 at 20:00

All digital except some books from my favourite authors, as I'm usually collecting signed copies etc.

No reason to have physical CDs/DVDs these days, just takes up space and games rarely put the effort into manuals/boxes as they use to.

Evian · 1 Dec 2014 at 20:07

All Digital for me now.

Curunen · 1 Dec 2014 at 20:18

Digital.

No clutter.

mark43 · 1 Dec 2014 at 20:26

Definitely digital for me, as far as games go any way. Physical is just a waste of space.

Having said that, I'll go for physical if its cheaper.

jamiehavok · 1 Dec 2014 at 20:29

back in the day, with pc big boxes, the physical copies were cool, these days they come in smaller cases with not even a cool full colour manual, so a lot more convenient to have digital, the collectors edition of witcher 3 is looking quite cool though and might give me a reason to get the physical copy!

strumpusplunket · 1 Dec 2014 at 20:37

I would have said digital without a second thought before today. Then I decided I'd start Steam downloading Wolfenstein...

44GB?!?!?! :eek:

ScoTTyBEEE · 1 Dec 2014 at 20:49

Everything digital. Threw away every possible bit of physical. Pointless clutter.

Sweey · 1 Dec 2014 at 20:51

Digital - I prefer the empty space.

Mithent · 1 Dec 2014 at 20:56

I tend to keep physical things forever (or at least for an unreasonably long time), so digital helps to prevent that. It's also more difficult to lose them, and they're often (although not always) cheaper. So, yes, definitely digital for me, for both games and books.