People like the rights associated with files-on-disc, not the physical material they'e printed on. Digital downloads are typically rife with DRM hassle, and you often have to jump through all kinds of hoops to install on another machine, whether it's one of yours, or one of your friends'. Discs, historically, have not had that issue. You've always been able to take your disc to your friend's house, install it there (without re-downloading or applying for new licenses) and start playing.
Yes, exactly. Spore had a bunch of problems because of their DRM like that.
Obviously, this is the superior experience. However, this isn't to say that getting your bits on plastic (rather than by wire) is superior. Clicking a button anytime, anywhere, and immediately getting the game is vastly preferable to ordering online and waiting for shipping, or driving to a store. I understand that it takes a while to fully download a game on a standard US broadband connection, and that it's faster to go to a store to get the game (if the store is open), but that's just a technological hurdle. The faster broadband connections (Uverse, FiOS, etc) would download most games faster than you could get to the store, and connections will get faster in the future.
I agree that it's easier. Immediately getting the game is preferable to going to the store. But at the same time, you doing get the excitement of opening the box, reading through the manual, and finally putting the game in. See, I like my bits of plastic and paper
ANYway, I agree that, for the moment, discs are better in most cases. The rights management is typically easier (though it's growing more complicated with online machine registration), portability is easier for the non-techie, acquisition is often faster, etc. This will all change, though. All of these problems are solvable with forseeable technology, whereas the problem of instant access to something physical is not.
Yes, the DRM on discs is getting pretty insane (AC2, C&C4). I didn't realize that they were losing that much on pirating of games. I mean... I download a lot, but never games.
Discs are better, but not because they're discs. Net accessibility will reign in the near future.
True.
Heh, this argument's starting to remind me of one I had with my boss back in my video store days. He was absolutely positive that online multiplayer on consoles was a fad that was going to die out in a year
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Most console gamers still prefer discs over downloads
- 05/07/2010 04:58:40 AM
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For consoles, I definitely prefer discs. I can take it to a friend's house, not fill up my harddrive
- 05/07/2010 05:45:22 AM
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Yeah I definitely prefer a disc
- 05/07/2010 10:45:50 AM
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- 08/07/2010 07:45:02 AM
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- 08/07/2010 07:45:02 AM
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Honestly, with the way CD/DVD media can go bad, and all the longer I really play games...
- 05/07/2010 03:39:24 PM
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I never said gamers don't prefer discs. I just said it's not the plastic that they like.
- 06/07/2010 01:50:08 AM
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- 06/07/2010 01:50:08 AM
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my biggest problem with net-accessibility...
- 06/07/2010 02:20:18 AM
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Hm.
- 06/07/2010 04:26:37 PM
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really? when I was using steam for a short bit...
- 06/07/2010 04:29:06 PM
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Pssh
- 08/07/2010 08:02:31 AM
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