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xjayguyx posted...

My physical game collection is worth over 20k USD, maybe over 25k. If all my games were digital the only value I'd have is the systems. That's a LOT of money loss if digital.. that's a huge factor.

Next would be making money ( yes 90% or more of the time modern games lose value ) but all my retro stuff went way up over the years. Lots of modern CE games went up though like Breath of the wild Master Edition for example.

Physical you can trade. To stores or friends.

Lending is better for physical. So long as you lend to a good friend. Being an adult I don't have issues lending to other adults.

I'm sure there is more reasons but the $ value reasons are enough of a reason.

Oh add storage, Physical is usually better in this regard.

Also add that with physical it's always mine to use, with digital the servers to re download will go down one day and you lost the game.

Thought of more reasons, you can buy physical used so cheaper. Also sales can be better on physical. Most cases cheaper physical over digital.

I'll think of more reasons probs ;)

Damn, sounds extensive. I've never put a dollar figure on my collection though.

I feel like we have this discussion regularly and the digital turds just don't get it. They're paying more to get less all because they're crying about 'clutter' or they're too friggin lazy to get up and switch a disc.

I've always said physical gives us control over when and where we play. Digital gives the companies too much power. It's mostly a wash when it comes to storage. You're either buying discs or multiple HDD's/flash cards. Personally I'd rather look at colorful game cases than a few external drives. DL'ing wastes a lot of time. Then there's the rest of your points all of which are valid.

Perhaps the biggest crisis is reliance on ISP's. They're greedy scumbags no doubt. Do we want to risk our entire library on keeping a connection that may not remain reliable, may not stay fast enough, or remain sensibly priced? F that mess. I could live without playing online. Losing my games because I can't sign in or something, well someone besides me would have a bad day.