Digital vs Physical - how do you prefer to buy your games?

[Captain_Fuzz]

Last Month, 75% of All Games Sold in the UK Were Digital

In a report, it has been revealed that the UK's game sales are becoming increasingly focused on digital media. Get the full update here.

insider-gaming.com

Just seen this on twitter and wondered what everyone here prefers. I've always been a big fan of the physical media especially with collectors editions and the like. Would definitely be sad to see digital media take over completely, even though it's very convenient...

 

[FuzzyMuffin]

pretty much digital. I dont even get upset with consoles and computers basically missing dick drives anymore. I'm sad to see them go mainly due to movies

 

[Captain_Fuzz]

pretty much digital. I dont even get upset with consoles and computers basically missing dick drives anymore. I'm sad to see them go mainly due to movies

DVD extras are a tragic loss

 

[Brandon Morgan]

This is a tough one for me. I love physical media and have a growing collection of retro hardware and games, but I also have a massive Steam library. Digital is just so convenient.

 

[Dangerman1337]

PC - Digital lol.
PS5 - Overwhelmingly physical.

 

[DiligentKiller123]

PC - Digital lol.
PS5 - Overwhelmingly physical.

Ditto

 

[jabel]

I enjoy digital more these days because ease of use.

 

[J1mb0w]

Always digital. The space that games eventually take up just isnt for me. I've boxes and boxes full of DVD/Bluray that I no longer use. If I can store games on the console/PC thats what im doing. I have a Series X, it has a drive on it, its not been used 1 time since I got the console and there's a high possibility it never will. If the option to buy a diskless X was there I wouldve done so.

Also for the PC you cannot beat buying games for $2/3 on Steam (or some other store that does steam keys) that I havent played before/played on a different device and want to play again. You simply cant do that with physical media.

 

[GiGAHEART]

Last Month, 75% of All Games Sold in the UK Were Digital

In a report, it has been revealed that the UK's game sales are becoming increasingly focused on digital media. Get the full update here.

insider-gaming.com

Just seen this on twitter and wondered what everyone here prefers. I've always been a big fan of the physical media especially with collectors editions and the like. Would definitely be sad to see digital media take over completely, even though it's very convenient...

Dude physical discs for me too not only I value ownership as a consumer so much but for game preservation purposes.

I also genuinely hate it whenever a game gets delisted ie Jump Force, Deadpool etc & I don't know why government guys allow this practice in the industry.

Even addon DLC gets delisted or sometimes worse in-game deletion like Predator content in Ghost Recon Wildlands.

Tho admittedly sometimes I buy digital because of steel sales obviously.

I don't remember which game was it but fairly recently a game gets pulled out even if the players have it on their library already & literally bought it.

Then there's bunch of other negatives of going digital; what if do you don't have internet or EMP during alien invasion lol

 

[alphalogical]

Digital preferably. For convenience and maybe I just lazy to get the dics haha

 

[YeezyDude]

Last Month, 75% of All Games Sold in the UK Were Digital

In a report, it has been revealed that the UK's game sales are becoming increasingly focused on digital media. Get the full update here.

insider-gaming.com

Just seen this on twitter and wondered what everyone here prefers. I've always been a big fan of the physical media especially with collectors editions and the like. Would definitely be sad to see digital media take over completely, even though it's very convenient...

Nothing against physical games tbh... But I've only bought a digital version of every game I've since 2012.