The main reason why I remain in the physical camp is game preservation. GB a month for all of their home Internet use. Just a really crappy situation that could have been prevented by not buying digital from them. Fair enough, but its just some people act like they are constantly changing games and its saving them a ton of time to have all digital. And of course, some of us enjoy having a collection. For example, back in the 360 days I had not gone all digital. You say you could understand if steam games were more expensive but generally they are not.
Physical games work better for gifts. Problem is, no one at MSFT support even knows what GFWL is, and the few who do have no idea how to help. There are some really old digital games on the Store that are still full price, but can be had for peanuts somewhere like Amazon. And when you buy physical, you get the actual disc and case to go along with it as well as any other bonus artwork and content included inside the case. After all, the discs also have specific code numbers. What about comparing cost, HDD space, ease of resale, digital sharing. And even then the margins are still high. And that is a very valid argument.
So, why would I pay full price for something like that? But how can I say it. Our recommendation is a little bit of both. Plus I keep the game forever. Because value is subjective to the holder. Equally, you can still buy most of the games available from the big publishers as a physical copy from the retailer of your choice. Even 20 years from now, they could have value for some titles.
No more waiting in line at midnight launches. MS were forced to remove certain functionality that would have been awesome. Not to mention that special, collectors editions of games usually come with a physical copy, not a download code. Digital all the way. You buy the the Xbox disc for example. But both approaches have many advantages and disatvantages, only some of which were mentioned in the article. Digital helps keep my floors and shelves tidy. The biggest con for me is no more special editions with that sweet swag.
And obviously if you upgrade, you no longer have acces to your games in the next gen console. Why pay more for less? You insert it in the Xbox and upon installation it registers the game in your Microsoft account and unlocks the other platform versions in your account. Hence, physical for me. In my case definitely not that often. Unless the games are free, I refuse to pay more money for digital games and then risk losing them in the future. Cost is also a big factor.
So we have a good choice of how to get our fix. Some folks, including those who work here at Windows Central, have gone all digital to rid their lives of clutter and piles and piles of game cases lying around. Now I just sign in and play when a title releases. That alone is enough for why physical needs to remain an option a few more years. Microsoft occasionally hosts enormous sales in the Xbox Store with a huge number of titles at discounted prices. This article is terrible with zero real information.
So which is best? Basically meaning that if take turns, every other game you get is free. So, completely not irrelevant. Why I prefer phsycal over digital. Not sure why I even keep that box of disks. Or that even more value comes from digital than physical. Whether you care about having all the little extra things is irrelevant. PC if you dont get as a gift you are better to be buying these games in steam, espacially in Halloween, Christmas or the summer with these huge sales, I might be a PC elitist, but the sales are real so. Like you, when downloading on the xbox all other internet use in my house slows to a crawl. You can loan a game to a friend or family member by just handing over a disc.
PC games I played back in the 90s. FREE unless you bought from iTunes from the get go. In 40 years from now, If I have a WORKING Xbox one, I could drop a Phsycal game in and I should be able to play it, single player but, I will be able to play it. That license can be revoked for a number of reasons, including time. The other great advantage is when I play games away from home via streaming and want to change the game. It was the main reason for me. All my games a re ready to go whenever I want without me having to place a disk in the console. The only pro I see with having a disc. Digital games would be nice if there prices matched what I could buy else where. The fact is, you do pay more for less when you go digital.
Here is the biggest reason to buy Digital? With physical, I can understand the price with costs of manufacturing the discs and cases, plus transporation and labor and so on. Each disc cost some amount of actual money to manufacture and distribute. You can sell if you chose to. With that said, I go digital mainly because of the laziness argument and the space in the living room argument. Bought about 8 games for 20 bucks. That one time getting up to change a disk is not killing me in any way, shape, or form. Currently going on a month or so with no Console. For all the reasons. Every single Xbox One game on the market can be bought from the comfort of your couch and installed on to your console without the need for a disc. Reel to Reel, 8 tracks, cassettes.
The license can still be revoked for any number of reasons, including time, which can make the disc pointless. Lol we already pay for the servers with our Xbox Live subscriptions. So for me it is not about time. The biggest costs are licencing. Economically physical is the only way to go. Plus whose to say that the console itself will even work since to do most things you need to be online anyway. You literally missed the biggest advantage of digital games.
Gamestop employees people who have no clue about games or anything associated with gaming. And as a REWARDS member I just take my money up front instead of on the back end with a disc. Admittedly, I was surprised by Xbox Fitness being shut down. Some people see absolutely no value in it. Microsoft direct, and also be able to check out a competitive Gamespot or similar retailer through an app. Sure, download codes are sold in a number of places, but discs are sold in more. Two times the value and the money up front.
Digital is fine if you live in a 1st world country where fibre is available at seriously good speeds. This is the winner for me. With digital copies you have servers, platform costs, licencing and expensive bandwidth! Unless you buy everything on DAY ONE, there is always a possablity of saving money buying a phsical disc. The cost of a server farm is negligible compared to the cost of producing and distributing physical games, plus the cut that the retailer takes. Some people had luck sobbing to the game distributors to get new keys. And finally, for those of us who hate getting up, you digital copies allow you to fully embrace your laziness. Digital is the way to go for me. Rarely do I play more than 2 games in a session. Whether I go physical or digital is on a game by game basis.
But normally I only buy digital in sales that are worth it. Also, much like with Apple, every now and then games in your digital library can suddenly dissapear or be removed. The other reason is the monetary one. More often than not these are only available in digital form from the store. AC4: Black Flag, but those large games are few and far between for me. As the article mentioned, physical games are simply cheaper than digital games. Heck, I lost quite a few games on Windows 10. EA Access where you pay a little and get a lot. If you live in the an urban area, yea you are most likely going ot have great internet but if you live in the country like me you have poor to decent internet.
GOG is DRM free, so that would be an alternative, if ever I chose to pay full price. Old games that are left over that never sell, where do you think those games go. So you can get the others digitally. Just like it was mentioned in the article, I just want to have a physical case that I will have to open almost each time I want to play that game. One of the big things you will nearly always see with physical copies of games is that prices drop a lot quicker than their digital counterparts. Nice try on the sell for digital Windows Central. Although I bought it again digitally on my account to be able to play it without the need for the disc. Xbox Live has been shut down for the Xbox One. Its frustrating that the updates always seem to be so big.
Same went for game sharing. Just check the comments about GFWL and now the Xbox Fitness content. Life is Strange, for example, would have loaded for many hours whereas it was fast installed from the bought disc. When you Create a free VUDU acct you get 5 free movies. Bulletstorm for 5, Zombie Army Trilogy for about 9 and the rest at 3 dollars or less. Prices drop quicker on physical discs quicker than digital. Another variant of the cost savings for going physical: Internet bandwidth.
If I got a game for Christmas, say Battlefield 1, a case and disc inside would feel much better and obviously more of a physical gift than a small card with a code. So in the big picture, you really are literally paying more for less when you buy digital. Now, I also buy digital. Xbox One and PS4 fully install the game to the hard drive and only use the disc for ownership verification. Xbox titles from smaller developers. When the new games come out each month on GWG its a day and a half to 2 day download period before I can play them. But now I have become accutely aware of it. Damaged discs should be mentioned in the article as one of the reasons to choose digital. On the related point, depending on where you live, you might not have the Internet speed and bandwidth available for digital to be possible.
Independent titles are pretty much always going to be digital though. Xbox one is long gone, no more Xbox one games in compatabilty, etc. Steam games are usually much better priced than games on xbox. There are pros and there are cons, so lets set out the case for each. Like stated, if buying physical, you still have to install on the hard drive. How often are you people changing games? During that time, my entire Internet connection is saturated, meaning if I need to do anything else that involves the Internet, it will be slow. They do they give you a few pennies for used games and sell them couple of dollars cheaper than the new disc. Well I grew up on Sega era.
But which is better to buy? You can go in to a store or online to somewhere like Amazon or the Microsoft Store and hand over your cash in exchange for a download code. Had I gone digital with those games, they would be safer. GAME Reward in the UK, you can be digital and still collect your points. When I sit down to play a game I usually play the same game for a few hours. If you resell the disc, it should lock you out of the game everywhere too, as soon as the person you sold it to installs it. Yes, MS has their weekly sales but the number of games you can buy physically for less than 20 bucks that still cost 60 digitally is insane. And finally, physical games are cheaper.
Incorrect for the current generation consoles. After several of my game discs got damaged, I decided to switch to digital. Chances are VERY high that, no you will not be able to. For people who live in areas like that all digital is impossible. No midnight lines for me. ISP data cap or go over constantly. And there is part of the problem. Mine was one of those.
Can you resell a digital download? NEVER EVER BUY DIGITAL GAMES THAT COME OUT ON A YEARLY BASES! Microsoft would allow competitive online stores to be accessable with the Xbox One. The case for physical is a strongly monetary one. And that is game sharing. The ability to share ownership of all games with a person. VUDU acct with my Flixster acct, so when I add a movie to VUDU it appears in my Flixster acct, and flixster has a Win App for pc and mobile. However disc games are perfectly fine. Written in simple langu.
This book offers insight into one of the most problematic and universal issues within multiplayer videogames: antisocial and oppositional play forms such as cheating, player harassment, the use of exploits, illicit game modifications, and system hacking, known collectively as counterplay. Social, casual and mobile games, played on devices such as smartphones, tablets, or PCs and accessed through online social networks, have become extremely popular, and are changing the ways in which games are designed, understood, and played. These games have sparked a revolution as more people from. What if they made some type of digital game trader, something like ticket exchange for sporting events? Cause everything I do is official! That you know of. Let me think about it! They do need to doing something either selling the digital games cheaper to start with, id like to see a trading system between the xbox community or as this post states offering a rebuy. No money for the developer and they get told, by the lack of money, to go back to the drawing board. Honestly, they could even be recycling the license code, sooooo it could be true. For games, one digital copy allows my wife and I to play on two consoles at the same time which would require two physical discs otherwise.
You heard it here first. They should have some type of p2p merchant store where people post their games for sale and you can buy their license. EB games, not MS or the publishers. They could go even higher if they wanted to and still profitable for them, long term. Madden game instead of it becoming outmoded and worthless after one year. This is what places do for gift cards. They gave me a free xbox one with my Lumia 950xl. Do they offer the retail value at the time you activated that code, or can you just not trade it in? By the way, developers would probably see this as a great way to maintain development of a franchise without having to provide as much capital for new ideas.
Craigslist, in person, etc. They need to look at expanding the number of shares on digital copies. How many retards would hear about deleting a license from their account and not have a clue what they are talking about. You answered your own question: companies should discount digital games to encourage more people to buy digital games, which cannot be bought used, resold, rented, traded, or lent. Here is the idea behind it. It incentivizes us to get rid of an old game and buy a new one. The idea is to capture similar options that are available with discs. This obiously works better for smaller gaming companies than ones that turn huge profits anyways.
Plus, if there were any extras or preorder bonuses, I can sell those too. MS getting some cut to make it worth their while. Almost like a reward. You can but at your own cost. Or better yet, sell your technology or ideas to a better gaming studio. Might as well get some money for them. What they would do with this, and why they would do it, they will lure users who would usually think of selling their games, to buy digital instead.
PC gaming is better. You can sell them. But that is for a physical game. Does anyone know if Steam does that? What do you guys think about this! DD when it costs them so much less to get the game to you and not have to even take into account that you might sell it and they lose the license fee? Not so much newly purchased. This is a really important distinction to make. But then again, users would probably end up not giving the bigger studios as much back so we would always have the final say.
They really should look at a tiered pricing, based on distance from release. They would already be saving money by not having to make any physical disc or case. MS is trying to give them money back! They could change it, but given that would require going against what is the norm i can see that causing a lot of legal issues. Xboxes, and have more than just two people playing one game, across different geological locations. Again, a tiered system makes more sense, though. It is so you can sell very old games that you own, but you have newer and better sequels and you are just not going to play the old ones.
The game now has a 401k. Actually, resell value is exactly what dictated the backslash against Microsoft when they first presented the XBone. That what I call sexy! This offer is not for you to earn money or get them back. All they have to do to make digi downloads more appealing is to stop riping us off to start with. Sell to another person. Still a better price than GameStop would give you. You basically get two options: auction or quick sell. At the time, the Wii was just launching so there was still a demand in the store for GC games.
IF, in the near future, they could reclaim the actual user license, AND have the rights to resell it for their own profit, then that would be different. Does not sound like a good deal to me, maybe if you had a 5 year old game, Maybe. So only with 10 games I saved the money to buy a quite nice GPU. Essentially putting your money where your mouth is. If you bought it on disc, yes. MS is happy because they probably gifted them that cash and wrote it off in some way. And I doubt many are.
You pay for your game to enjoy it. What are your thoughts on this? Craigslist for xbox digital games. In not sure what pubs get from GameStop, etc. Quite often I can resell an old game for a decent amount of money and, for some games, I can get more than I paid for it originally. Also note that I said base cost. MS caved to the complainers and removed this functionality.
MS bought it back from u already. No deal for me. Especially depending on how old it is. XBL friend at whatever price you agree to. MS can make ANY extra profit off a game that you sell them back. That way the publishers will strive for better games. Its a plus plus for both MS and buyer. Anyway, I buy my games on Steam or Humble Bundle for my PC and save an enormous amount of money, even when you have to calculate in the higher price of the PC in the beginning. Definitely a growing area. GAME still give me loyalty points for buying games.
But no option to download a PDF copy. Say you played it and it was just OK, but then they added some new DLC and that made you want to try it again. Man some people are just beyond help. Haha, you drive a hard bargain. The only reason users still want physical copies is because they can resell it. Yeah I can believe that. They ruined a good thing for everyone. Several games they said would only pay a dollar for. In other words, be happy if they even give you a penny back for it. Most would likely view this as a last resort if the other falls flat or if you just need that little bit of money in a hurry. Imagine if Microsoft were able to provide the means to sell back those digital copies you have installed on your Xbox One, just like you would a physical disc down at GameStop.
Its a good money maker. No trade backs on the digital purchases. So you can sell it by your own. About the same fee as amazon and ebay. And would buy more games on top of that. Wow, this is big picture for MS. Here is what MS should do. You can log and keep track of anything in todays digital age. That place is a major rip off. That makes me thinking. Gamestop to at least get something for it. Places like Game UK base it on the amount they have had traded in and how in demand the game is. Only someone like you would be anxious to get that amount back to purchase a new game.
But somehow the digital games end up being more for a longer time. How about i settle the price and Microsoft takes a percentage of that. It would be good to get ahead of this, because its just a matter of time before the EU forces companies to allow users to resell digital goods they bought, and forces companies to enable such feature. Microsoft should create a marketplace for people that want to sell there games. EB Games back in Canada to sell some old GameCube games I never played anymore. Titanfall It was free with my XB1.
Xbox game for my ideal: the MyTeam mode in NBA2K.
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