Game Pass has made me realise I don't care all that much. If it's a game I really love and want to physically own, sure. Otherwise, I rarely replay games so meh.
Agreed. With everything you said lol.Yuck at the conditional answers on the poll, guess I won't vote at all. I already know why physical is important to people, but it isn't to me. Every physical disc I own on ps4, I wish I had the digital version, especially as someone with multiple PS4s.
I don't care at all. I used to, but now I'm all digital. PC helped with that, I could care less about having a disc, just a bunch of garbage taking up space imo, the full game usually isn't on there anyway, almost every game has a day one patch that significantly improves it, and consoles don't read games off of the disc anyway.
If you re-sell all your games when you are done, that's the only time physical makes sense for me.
Yep, that's a good point.I think people should distinguish whether they are talking about physical against digital purchases or subscription services when giving their opinions. These are very different things.
No because the games on my shelf thing plays second fiddle to lending them to people. That's the first and foremost best part of owning a game imoSo the motivation here is less ownership, but more as a collector? Am i reading you right?
That would be a terrifying life :D!
And thankfully not one I hope we ever have to consider.
My point though was not about the concept of 'rentals'. It was the significance of 'ownership' with video games at a time when we as consumers have very little we can do with games we own if a 3rd party decides for us that they dont want to support a game we want to cherish beyond its years.
Some posters link this to back-compat becoming important to preservation - and i get that. But on the subject of 'ownership' and paying for something that you want to 'own' - how does that work in gaming today?
I don't see it and I'm hoping to learn new perspectives from those who might see otherwise.
Yeah, agreed. I've slowed down on buying special editions as I've noticed most of the time, I don't look at the merch again or even really care about it a year down the line, so it just becomes clutter. Some franchises I've loved my entire life, so of course I know I'll still feel good about those special editions if I really want them.I'm in the same way. I had some collectors edition and whatever, but nowdays is more the experience playing than something material. If I really like the franchise of course I can have some figures or some fan stuff... But the game itself can be download anytime.
Disc is kind of irrelevant too, because of patches and updates. So its becoming more like a services than a 100% product ready for consumer.