how underage do you have to be to prefer digital to physical? putting the disc in is like turning the key to start your car. it just doesn't feel the same without it.
>>344560031
>prefer digital to physical
What if you prefer neither?
The only reason I prefer physical is because I've wanted to sell pretty much every game so far this gen.
>>344560031
>feelings based argument
only idiots prefer physical media
digital is far easier to buy, play, and is better fo the environment,
what kind of monster wants to destory our planet just so they hold a physical disk in their fat, greasy hands?
M8 please.
I grew up on physical but being able to pirate or get games I really like for cheap is a godsend.
I'll miss the feeling of opening a case for the first time or reading a good manual. But it had to come to an end sometime.
>get game the instant its released
>don't have to wait in line at midnight with a bunch of smelly inbred neckbeards such as myself
what's not to like? bawww, I can't take pictures of a shelf and have other anons judge my taste, whatever shall I do
The only real problem with digital stuff to me is the impermanence of it all. The only way to ever truly 'own' anything digital is to pirate it, otherwise devices eventually stop receiving support or the whole service gets shut down. Same thing with single player games that have online important online features.
>>344560031
Depends on which version of the game I can get cheaper.
>>344560031
Unless you can somehow duplicate matter digital is the better option.
>>344560031
What you're saying is you refuse to adapt to the world around you and you wish for a swift death? Good riddance
>>344560031
Don't listen to these faggots OP atleast we truly own our games
>>344560715
Nothing is permanent. Everything is fleeting friend
Let go of your materialistic desire, it only makes accepting the gravity of your mortality that much more difficult
Best and easiest reason:
>If you buy a game its still worth something
>If you have good tastes it holds its value
>If your lucky it goes up in value
Instead of having my money evaporate immediately digitally, I can convert it into something that I COULD liquidate and sell. Not that i would sell them. But its nice to know they are there.
Also
>Living like a pleb where you cant afford to have space for physical items or constantly moving around like some rent ditcher.
>>344561751
>He buys games
>>344561570
as long as no one throws them out the discs I bought when I was 10 will still exist when I'm a rotting corpse in the ground.
>>344560637
how about the fact that the biggest digital distribution platform is inseperable from shitty drm?
>>344560365
The world is on a natural path to imminent destruction. Playing a disc from a plastic box isn't going to make a significant difference. And when your internet takes a full day to download a game it's a lot easier to just drive 15 mins to the store and buy it. You do have a car, don't anon?
>>344561570
Everything is fleeting but that doesn't make me any less pissed about being unable to access online content in DQ9.
>>344560031
I'm 37 and I prefer digital.
Maybe is digital games with no real value didn't cost the same fucking price as a physical copy it would make sense, but my gamecube collection is worth more than your virtual console is.
>>344562112
Gen Z faggot
>>344562265
least I'm not a nostalgiafag who can't even get his gens right
>>344560031
I have push to start ignition, keyfags are usually poor
>>344562265
lrn2math
>>344562434
That looks like a key to me anon
>>344562571
not my picture, i'm showing the faults of a key ignition
>>344562640
you mean having a reliable and easy to fix trigger to your ignition at the cost of some cheap plastic getting lightly scratched?
it's the same fucking game either way
>>344562832
except you'll only own it for 10 years if you get digital
>>344562640
I remember correctly that's a hire car for a military base where the apes there are used to a key into the stalk type.
Disks just like cars, rentals are always going to be abused.
>>344561889
>muh DRM
Yes Anon, those 10 seconds it takes for me to log in and load my list of Steam games really are insufferable and impossibly inconvenient.
>>344563054
fuck off retard
>>344563054
>what is piracy
>what is GoG
by the time steam goes down there will have been more than enough time for shit to considered old enough to have gotten a GoG release (an official crack, woohoo) or to be cracked by the ruskies.
>>344563054
I'll most likely die by natural causes before steam ever runs out of business.
>>344563335
The idea of a single company having the power to vac ban you from your entire collection was enough for me to leave Steam for consoles.
>>344563376
not an argument
>>344563391
I'm talking about consoles, it's not like PC has much of a physical option these days
>>344563602
see >>344563645
PC only really has digital, that ship has sailed.
>>344563645
same thing applies, i can go download the .iso for practically every console game released in the last 30 years right now, with the exception of maybe currentgen but it won't take too long for people to start archiving that
>>344563639
lol, and if you get banned on xbl what do you think is going to happen?
>>344563602
With the greed of the videogame industry? Steam already backtracked on Steam Machines. Who knows what their next loony idea will be?
>>344563639
>vac ban you from your entire collection was enough for me to leave Steam for consoles.
>from your entire collection
Is that how that works?
>>344563335
why should I have to ask gabe's permission every time I want to play a game? why should I have to install his client and look at his ads?
>>344563843
So your solution is to wait 5+ years after releases and never pay for video games? Sounds phenomenal anon.
>>344563892
That's the beauty of not being connected to the internet on that damn machine.
>>344560637
...
Or you could go to bed and wait until tomorrow to pick it up.
I will never understand this obsession of playing every god damn game the first minute is released.
>>344561889
How about the fact that you can literally copy a game for free?
>>344563602
Honestly all it'd take for steam to go out of business is for something like the microsoft store to really take off. An integrated store for pcs like apple and google do for phones.
It will probably happen in a few decades. Though video games will be so impermanent by then no one will probably even care.
>>344564060
You mean like a normal person would do? This is /v/, anon!
>>344563948
Yes, they close your account say bye-bye to your games.
>>344564042
i pay for the games i wanna play right now, and if ever get the urge to play an old game that isn't available anymore i pirate it and install it onto the native platform or load it on an emulator
>>344563948
Yes, if severe.
Heck, I bought a new computer, without internet access, and I couldn't even access the games from my salvaged harddrive, because it required me to officially log-in to their servers.
>>344564296
eh, I guess there's nothing wrong with that, but buying digital to never play that copy again later on really rubs me the wrong way when there's a physical option.
>>344564035
The benefits greatly outweigh the minor inconveniences.
You have all your game in a neatly organized list, you can invite other players or join in right from that list, you can send messages, you get frequent discounts on games, you can refund games.
But no, maybe you are right, downloading the client and closing a window with ads is just too much.
>buy physical copy of PC game
>have to download it
what the fuck
>>344564294
That's irrelevant for me though because I'm not some faggot cheater.
>>344560031
I'm very poor and the repo man can't take my Steam games.
>>344560031
>not having your car always on and ready to open the door for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2rtnkz80Rs
>>344564296
>i pirate it
I'm sure the big three were salivating over SOPA, and becoming sue-happy over "potentially lost revenue".
>>344563948
no
don't listen to these tinfoil hat retards
you can contact steam and get your library moved
Physical is just annoying now honestly. You have to box it all up and move it when you move and then find space for it where it doesn't look tacky or shitty. I have an entire 6 foot tall dresser, a tv stand and another shelf full of them. On my pc I have over 300 games and don't have any extra space or anything and they're just a few clicks away anywhere in the world.
Physical are nice to look at but that's it. Digital is so much more convenient and almost always cheaper.
>>344564716
Do a charge-back and watch what happens.
>>344564641
>buy physical copy of 65 gigabyte game
>comes with 1 DVD with an 8 megabyte steam installer on it
FUCKING ROCKSTAR
>2016
>Still using key ignition start
How about buying a car thats not crap, one that comes with a smart key?
>>344564641
>Buy a PS4 game
>Put it in
>Mandatory 25GB patch
Witcher 3.
>>344564951
You can't do a charge back on games you bought 5 years ago.
Friendly reminder that both your physical and digital media will decay eventually. CDs/DVDs have a lifetime of twenty to thirty years and God knows how long the Internet and computers will last.
>>344565187
As bad as manualfags who think they're better because >muh mad driving skillz instead of getting an automatic like normal, adjusted people.
>>344564641
>buy physical copy of PC game
>it's just an empty box with a steam redemption code on a piece of paper
>>344565432
Do manualfags still get upset? They don't even have better mpg anymore.
>>344565432
>hurdur manual has no advantages over automatic
Niggers can't carjack manuals.
>>344565524
>living in a place where niggers are a problem
Manualfags.
>>344565420
>God knows how long the Internet and computers will last
Basically. It's only a matter of time before the already bloated providers split the internet into package rates.
>>344565247
>Witcher 3.
Well theres your problem.
>>344560031
LOL LOOK AT ME I HAVE A DISKKK :DDDD
I LOV PUTTING IT IN AND FEELING THE NOSTALGIA AMIRITE OLDFAGS XDDDD
GUYS WHY DO PEOPLE EVEN GET DIGITAL, UGH OMG FUCKING NEEEWFAGS WAAAAH
>>344565432
>>344565517
>not wanting full control over what gear you're in
baka
>>344564536
>You have all your game in a neatly organized list,
if you actually owned your games you could have them neatly organized on your desk and on your hard drive instead of buried in /faggots/steam/steamapps/182313/8322/
>you can invite other players or join in right from that list, you can send messages
if you care about social shit just install teamspeak
>you get frequent discounts on games, you can refund games.
games used to go on sale when they were sold in physical stores
>>344565432
Automatic gears are more prone to malfunction and require more maintenance.
>>344560031
Digital would be more justifiable if it adapted a Spotify-like system where you pay a monthly fee to access an entire library of games. In its current form you're paying as much as you would for owning a game but the company can revoke your license or shut down the servers whenever they feel like it, rendering your game useless.
>>344565918
physical pc games still do go on sale, games that cost $30 through steam can frequently be bought as physical copies of the steam version for a 5th of the price
>>344564910
>anywhere in the world with high speed internet
>>344560031
People start cars with buttons now.
>>344566120
Good thing I'm not playing my games in third world countries.
>>344560031
>transfering from disc to hdd
>800Kb/s
>downloading from interwebs
>25MB/s
CDs will never die
>>344566170
I wonder what those people do when their ignition won't start. They sure as hell aren't fixing it themselves. Good things my games can't ever be taken from m-
>>344560031
>implying digital over physical is underage
Oldfag here. Most PC games on CD I got in the 90s are unusable because they decayed. You are full of shit.
>>344560206
this, you buy physical so you can get rid of it when you realize you made a horrible mistake.
>>344560031
Who's up for some Hearts of Iron 4 v1.1.0(5d33) over tunngle/hamachi?
>have shelf full with CDs and DVDs
>never use them
>they catch dust and I have to clean that shit once a week
>>344566503
fucked up, meant that as a new thread, not a reply.
>>344565859
You're asking why we are charging $54.99 on a four year old game? We don't want to compromise the value of the product.
You want a partial refund on your game because you didn't enjoy it? No refunds! We don't have to restock anything, or even worry about packaging, but we reserve the right to keep your money.
Digital exists only because game companies want to kill the used game market. That shit started with online passes and it's only going to get worse.
>>344560031
Anyone who still prefers physical is a deluded holdout.
Digital is better in almost every single way. Especially as far as actually playing the game goes.
>>344566409
same here, they just take up a shit load of room and theres no way im selling them to some shit store that undercuts me. I actually still have some floppy disks.
>>344564060
You've never been so excited for a game you couldn't wait?
I think you're on the wrong board
>>344560637
>get the game the instant it's released
>have to wait 3 hours for the game to donwload
>>344560637
>not knowing the people that work at the store personally to get games early before the autists
fucking pleb
>>344566312
Modern cars start beeping like hell or won't even start when even the smallest electronic component e.g. window wiper has a fault.
>>344566790
>Digital is better in ever single way
>Doesn't give a single reason
right
pic related is you with big bull sony
>>344560365
Pretty much everyone else. Kill yourself.
>>344560031
>Putting the disk in
>Not inserting the cartage and hearing that click
How underage are you?
>>344566908
this
much harder and expensive to fix a car with power steering and arguably worse for handling too, same applies for all electronic replacements for cars.
>>344566216
>CDs will never die
We're getting to a point in history, where even external harrdrives are becoming outdated.
>>344566409
Do you live in Louisianan or Atlanta? It takes a tremendous amount of heat to cause the petroleum to start breaking down. It's why you shouldn't use open spindles.
>>344565432
>automatic
>normal, adjusted people
Automatic's were literally developed for the disabled, are you too retarded to use a manual?
>>344560031
preferring physical is an underage thing in my experience. either underage or life failure.
underage want it because it's "cool" that it's going away, life failure want it because life failure collects meaningless material possessions.
>wannnh one day steam could take all your games!
so? i finished playing them many years ago. why would i care? video games are for experiences not ownership.
>>344567332
Driving with friends, a sports car pulls up next to us. Revs his engine, revs it louder, revs it even louder, metallic sounding explosion and his car dies.
>>344566949
Do I really have to list all the reason off to you?
>Games will never get damaged
>Games will never get lost
>Access to multiple games without switching out physical media
>Easier to purchase
>Easier to install
>Can play preordered games the very second they get released.
What are the pros to physical?
>You get a box you can put on your shelf.
>Maybe a cool instructional booklet (though most likely not)
>>344567506
if they're for experience rather than ownership then why did you pay full price for them? Why didn't you just rent?
>>344567059
>arguably worse for handling too
lol WHAT have you ever driven a car without power steering? i'm sure you haven't
>>344567617
Can't return a digital game on most platforms. Steam allows you if you've played less than 2 hours of the game you want to return
>>344567506
One friend owns a mountain of console games.
The other only owns digital.
Guess who everyone would rather play with?
>>344564641
Doom 2016.
Battlefront EA is much worse.
>>344567648
my spending habits aren't part of the conversation
>>344567049
>inserting the cartage and hearing that click
>not placing the needle on the wax then hand cranking the cylinder
underage plebs the lot of you
>>344565918
I was not debating whether digital is better than physical though, I was just pointing out that people who think Steam is some sort of Draconian DRM method are whiny and silly as shit.
>>344567617
>Games will never get damaged
>Games will never get lost
maybe if you aren't a retard and can't learn to organize shit
>Easier to install
wait a few 4 hours or so hours for the game to download versus spending an half an hour at the most going to a store and buying the game and putting it in the console?
>>344567808
You can't return physical software at most places either, considering most of it comes with a product key.
>>344567506
preferring physical over digital is an underage thing because they can pretend it's mature and nostalgic and because they didn't experience dead discs yet.
>>344567862
What video game system did that grandpa?
>>344568032
Yes, clicking install and waiting a couple hours is easier than driving to a store and physically purchasing an item
I don't know how you can debate or even be confused by this.
>>344567823
What difference does it make for playing with other people?
>>344567862
I seen a hipster pull out a USB-powered record player to play vinyl records. I wanted to strangle him.
>>344567617
>Games will never get damaged
take better care of them and physicals won't
>Games will never get lost
why are you losing your games, keep track of your shit
>Access to multiple games without switching out physical media
whoa a 20 second difference at most good point anon
>Easier to purchase
and with a consumer-unfriendly EULA to boot! drive to the store you lazy fuck.
>Easier to install
Literally wrong, takes hours to days to download compared to, at most, 30 minutes to install from disc
>Can play preordered games the very second they get released.
so waste $60 to play a few hours earlier? doesn't sound like a good trade to me.
Pros to physical
>You get a box you can put on your shelf.
>Your games aren't managed by a money hungry corporation
>can reinstall any time, anywhere
>you can sell it if you don't want it anymore
>>344567734
Not him, but you need to be /fit/ to steer that shit.
>>344561889
>the biggest digital distribution platform is inseperable from shitty drm
Except there are thousands of games on Steam that don't have any DRM. You can download it once, back up the data folder and play it from anywhere. Either you don't know very much about videogames, or you don't know what the word inseparable means.
>>344560031
Nigga I'm from the cartridge days and prefer digital.
Don't talk for all of us.
>>344560031
>muh feelings
Nope. Digital is best, you'll understand when you're older and you let go of nostalgia and finally see clearly.
>>344567823
what does "everyone" have to do with anything?
>>344568213
It is a lot easier for a group to pick something to play off a shelf, rather than a nondescript list of shit on a computer screen.
That said split screen multiplayer gaming is so dead at this point I'm not sure it even matters.
>>344568096
You at least have the freedom of eBay.
>>344568201
Not him but the original NES. You loaded it horizontally, then pressed it down.
Also the click on the PS1 case going down, but that also applied to the PS2.
You don't own digital media.
>>344567734
It, like many things, is a case of learning. Maybe handling isn't the right word but the less electronic interference between you and the car the better.
>>344567857
they are when your spending habits help form a norm in an industry that fucks over everyone who actually cares about their money.
>>344568456
Organized physical collections look much nicer to other people.
>>344566870
>getting excited for games these days
Underage?
>>344563948
No, not at all. You get banned from the one game you were caught cheating in.
>>344568503
>gaming
found the underage
>>344568504
That's what I'm referring to with a click sound you retard. Or would cha-chink be better?
>>344568318
If you're using console, it's a 50/50 split between the pro and cons of physical and digital.
Physical media is dead on PC though, as it should be.
And soon enough physical media will be gone.
>>344568610
organized collections of video games look better to other people than my clean, uncluttered living space with actual art and curiosity pieces like insect specimens and petrified dinosaur bones?
unlikely, sorry. but once again, what do "other people" have to do with anything?
you decide what to do in life based on what other people think? regarding your own personal purchases and belongings even? lol
>>344568201
>>344568504
the original nes did not make any type of "click" sound it made a "chung" sound when you pressed the game in.
>>344568717
>two completely different things are the same thing
>you're a retard if you didn't recognize this
i hate this place so much, i hate so many of you so much
>>344567947
there's absolutely zero reason why I should have to run the steam client after I've used it to install a game. I can download and play games I buy on gog without having to use a client at all.
>>344568771
On PC it's a given that you use digital, that's not what I'm talking about. I have a ton of games on my steam. But there's still time for people to change with consoles, even though they won't, fucking everyone in the long term. Hopefully movie collectors at least keep physical movies alive.
>>344560031
I do like to own physican copies of the games I like, but on the other hand I am so incredibly lazy that sometimes I will just decide not to play the game rather than get up and put the disc in.
>>344568663
found the autist
>>344568206
the longest it ever took me to install a game from disk was 3-4 hours back in 1999. it took me over 14 hours to download the new nep game from steam because of shit internet.
>>344568206
i don't find waiting for hours for something is a good use of time, and it's "easier" for me to just go out to a store and driving, besides if i want to buy a game digitally i need to go to the same store anyway to buy psn cards
>>344569207
>the new nep game
yyyyyyyep and that's the type of person who stresses physical game ownership in 2016
hey guess what, my internet is faster than the data rate on a DVD drive can possible be
>>344568206
easier if you don't actually want to play the game maybe
>>344569239
>besides if i want to buy a game digitally i need to go to the same store anyway to buy psn cards
YOU
HAVE
TO
BE
18
TO
USE
4CHAN
like your thoughts on what's convenient and whats a good use or time or not have ANY fucking weight when you dont even own a credit card LOL
>>344569281
>his choice of game is why everyone should do what I do
and not everyone has the luxury of fast internet, I got 2 megaBITS per second until last winter.
>>344569451
the conversation is about real people who live in real places though, obviously you aren't part of the conversation if downloading things isnt a possibility for you
let me give you some advice as someone from a hick town: leave now, or you will never leave. no matter what you have to do, JUST LEAVE.
>>344569383
You realize he might just not want to attach a credit card to PSN, seeing as they've proven it is so fucking secure and all? I can't say I trust them with mine.
>>344560031
Get with the times pops.
And I'm fucking 29.
>>344569606
your credit card details have been leaked multiple times in breaches you were never informed of
it doesn't matter if your credit card is breached because all major credit card companies refund you now
>>344568358
>thousands of games on Steam that don't have any DRM
yeah and 99% of them are shovelware. even games that you can also buy on gog without drm will automatically start steam.
>>344560031
I love physical media but it is increasingly becoming less and less popular (mostly on PC) due to how convenient digital media is and for good reason.
>>344569578
I live 30 minutes from where people are launched into space anon, I probably live in a more high tech area than you do. Literally anyone can buy a physical copy and play it quickly. I don't see why you shill faggots insist on everyone using your botched distribution when it is worse in almost every conceivable way
>>344569383
settle down man i just buy digital games on steam with paypal
>giving any payment info to sony after the hack
nope
the store i buy physical games at is in a mall so if i want to buy something i can pick up a nice snack or a small pizza. convience to me is getting something as fast as possible regardless of how much effort i have to exert, besides i love driving
>>344567506
>video games are for experiences not ownership.
This anon gets it. My mind is always blown by those autists that spend thousands on rare NES games to fill out their collection when you can download a complete rom set (i.e, the only important part) in 3 seconds. The plastic shell and PCB are absolutely worthless clutter.
I prefer physical media over download copies, but CDs are shit. Optical storage was a shitty fad that somehow never died out, and I have no idea how it picked up so much speed.
DVD/BD are basically obsolete now, you can produce a cartridge/flash drive that stores more data, reads/writes faster, is more durable, takes less to produce and write, and works 100% of the time.
I can see why discs were used at one point, when they first came out they were a superior solution, but now they're outdated and people are still using them for their consoles for some reason.
>>344569905
>I live 30 minutes from where people are launched into space anon
Why do you think the launch pad is there anon? Because there's nothing else around. LOL.
>I probably live in a more high tech area than you do.
Yes that's why I have google fiber and you have ISDN
>Literally anyone can buy a physical copy and play it quickly.
Why would I have an optical drive hooked up?...Just out of curiosity
>>344569963
this
finally someone who understands how much better it is to take a little trip to go get something you want rather than masturbating for 3 hours until your game is ready.
>>344570019
thank you bro at least there are two of us here.
I know people like to deflect this with sarcasm and all but, really, what do you guys think will happen if you finally get a girl over and you have one of those stereotypical cubbyhole entertainment centers with 9 consoles mounted in it?
what reason is there for all the plastic, dust, the need for cleaning, the fire hazard, the used space? the emotional attachment to something that will break?
I'm just not that guy
>>344569905
>I live 30 minutes from where people are launched into space anon
Anon, if the trajectory is off, you might meet the people launched into space.
>>344569963
I just buy the cards off of Amazon...
>>344570214
>what do you guys think will happen if you finally get a girl over and you have one of those stereotypical cubbyhole entertainment centers with 9 consoles mounted in it?
Absolutely nothing assuming you do not present yourself as a fat slob who only cares for these things. Normal people will regard almost any hobby as a weird quirk and nothing more unless you speak of it with obsession.
>>344570041
>Why do you think the launch pad is there anon? Because there's nothing else around. LOL.
you're right, anon, there's never anything built on the shorelines of florida! nothing but pristine undiscovered land!
what kind of idiot are y-
oh, it's another faggot who thinks this thread is about PC. of course.
>>344560031
>buy physical copy of MGSV
>disc contains only steaminstaller.exe
>>344570429
No. Sorry, but in real life, you get judged. Normal people judge. That's what they do. And you will be judged harshly, because collecting and displaying video game consoles speaks HARSHLY about you
it's fucking old plastic garbage.
>>344570224
rockets are launched over the ocean for that exact reason, anon.
>>344566894
>Buy the game, have to wait 1 hour for installation and then 3 hours of day zero patches.
Mem
>>344570462
>upholding florida as some kind of paradise
>thinks florida is a high-tech state
I could say any number of things, but I'll simply say this: I encourage you to travel
>>344560031
>not buying PC games then instantly cracking them
>>344560031
>He doesn't have a push-to-start car
Almost as bad as prefering manual to automatic, and I'm not even baiting.
>>344570462
>Live in Florida
How do you feel about all the recent media coverage?
>>344570767
anon Florida is a very large state, and my area has very multiple military contracted teach firms and a fucking space program. Unless you live with Elon Musk I'm certain I live in a more high tech area than you do.
>>344566493
that is what steam refunding is for
>>344560031
I'm probably older than you and it sounds like you're just sentimental.
>>344570927
business as usual, idiots eaten by gators, throwing alligators through windows, melting inside my house, etc
>>344560031
>putting the disc in is like turning the key to start your car
More like using manual instead of automatic.
>>344571052
>thinks florida is a high-tech state
anon NASA is headquartered in washington, DC. You have a launch pad. Not the space program.
Pretty typical floridian understanding of things. No, go ahead, keep thinking Florida is a high-tech state though. really.
>Florida is a very large state
Yes, 95% of which is either swamps or typical bible belt style rednecks.
>>344570908
>Almost as bad as prefering manual to automatic
How to tell someone is shit at driving
>>344571076
it took me 3 hours before I realized how horrible fallout 4 was. It was too late to do anything.
Am I the only one who like to smell a brand new game right out of the case? Shit smells so cash.
>>344571286
Even if you don't consider Kennedy high tech you very conveniently ignored mention of all the other high tech industry around here, and have yet to point out a single bit of high tech industry in your area. Telemarketing firms are not high tech btw, Pajeet.
>>344571520
anon this was not a contest i'm just trying to explain to you that florida is not a high tech state. it doesn't matter if one area has some tech industry. one area of alaska has tech industry too. and west virginia.
But since you're so interested in my state having or not having high tech industry, here is a primer for you
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Triangle
>>344560031
Doesn't matter. I do find myself going digital more often because I have no space on my shelves.
If anything, buying physical releases only is the purest form of autism.
>>344571669
and North Carolina is mostly mountain dwelling moonshine brewing rednecks, and yet you don't seem to be factoring that into your area as much as you are factoring in similar stereotypes about my area. Most people in my are are rich, educated, and white. So is your are it would seem. Both areas are surrounded by hicks.
>>344570572
Collecting anything is viewed negatively. There is a difference between owning things and collecting though. A few shelves of games and some consoles stored is nothing, a room full of shit categorized like some kind of museum no one but other autists care about, yeah, that's going to be a harsh judgement.
>>344560031
not underage
I like playing games, not stacking up plastic representations of them
>>344560206
don't buy games at full price then
>>344561921
To then get home and install the game for an hour
>>344566672
Your talking about Disk games I see, kek.
Skyrim is 40$ at gamestop, while its free on PC, and so are all games on PC.
Stay mad SonyPony, you lose
>>344570462
>>344570927
>>344560031
You can buy used disc for a fraction of their initial value.
>>344572275
Took me 20 minutes to install bloodborne and I could play it while it did so.
>>344561207
why do you want to own games?
does that make them funner?
>buy new game
>open case
>pop in disc
>play right away
>no menus, no accounts, no ads in the home menu, no fucking day one patches
Pure comfiness. 6th gen was the last good gen
>>344572303
m8 my eurocuck country is probably not even half the size of florida and has those kind of headlines
People are weird
>>344568940
See you tomorrow faggot
>>344561751
but i've sold games before, and later want to replay them
with digital, you can always redownload them
>>344571996
>mostly
No, North Carolina is the secondary banking center of the US after New York and hosts two of the nation's fastest growing technology cities. Research triangle is, and has been, the fastest growing place for high paying jobs in the country for like a decade. We also have the world's 6th busiest airport, Charlotte is becoming an international business hub.
They're starting to call the research triangle area "little silicon valley" nationally.
Florida is not a high-tech state. Period. Especially not compared to NC. You can try to characterize NC as hick but the numbers tell a different story and the numbers are all the matters.
>>344572303
some call us the australia of the south
God bless my state
>>344572132
>plastic representations
these aren't fucking illustrations of games, they ARE games
>>344572303
Florida Orange Juice commissioned marvel to make a florida man.
>>344560031
26 here. As soon as Digital became mainstream I began to prefer it. The idea of having a harddrive contain all the games I would ever play on it without having to deal with CDs is extremely appealing to me.
Digital is better from a developer perspective too. It's a nearly zero cost distribution whereas physical you have to have disks and shipping.
>>344572380
only 20 minutes then 20 minutes every time you die or go somewhere :^)
i cannot believe they released that shit. I tried to play it at my friends house and i gave up after one death. minute long loading screen like its 1996 or something LOL
>>344564641
Almost no one uses BD drives on PC .
Look at the GTA 5 PC physical
>>344572548
alright anon, keep telling yourself that. let's just agree to disagree.
Physical is pointless now. I'd agree, but many times you're just buying a disc that downloads the game. And if it isn't that, what do you get? A seizure warning? Manuals are rarely included anymore.
Hell, the few games I got recently for PC are utterly useless once tied to a STEAM account.
So I just dont see the point anymore.
>>344572642I have relatives in the citrus hall of fame
>>344572717
I don't get all the hype. I like souls and all but it's hardly a reason to own a PS4. I've yet to really find anything else I want that doesn't cost twice as much as it should.
>>344572608
no, they aren't games. they are boxes
games are 0's and 1's. what holds the 0's and 1's doesn't matter
>>344572805
>both states in third quartile
>NC definitely ranked higher
>NC is growing faster in technology business than any other state
>Florida is not growing fast in technology business
I don't know why you can't understand this. In 10 years NC will be first quartile while florida will be third quartile. Do you get it yet?
Hell in 8 years i'm sure NC has already leapt over florida. You guys got a hurricane and an oil spill. NC got...wait for it...more high tech businesses
>>344572548
you gotta kick the jews out, before it's too late
>>344573056
They're both in second you moron.
>>344572490
I'd love to see them. Florida Man is a legend now.
>>344572235
He never said he did
>>344573056
>NC definitely ranked higher
now you're fabricating statistics from a chart based on the US Census, anon, please do continue
>>344573230
>a quartile is a place
STOP TALKING.
holy fuck when did so many LITTLE KIDS come here? you can be sure they are one because there's a "moron" or "retard" or "idiot" in EVERY post they make
>>344573404
oh no NC man is chimping out
>>344573320
https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind14/index.cfm/chapter-8/c8s6o55.htm
okie dokie. sorry that you aren't of the type of mindset to be able to find your own definite statistics.
I guess that's why I'm proud that I work in a high-tech industry and you're proud that you live near the space shuttle launch pad.
>>344560031
I will always prefer physical on consoles/handhelds
at least on PC, things are easy to pirate and hoard when Steam goes down
What's the point buying digital on console? Both versions cost the same, and load times aren't any better, at least you get something tangible that you can sell when you buy physical
I prefer digital these days.
But only if it's emulation or flash carts.
I don't buy games.
>>344573501
8-55: Employment in high-technology establishments as percentage of total employment
FL(2010): 585,325
NC(2010): 347,943
even your own sources contradict what you're saying. The trends are on the decline for both states.
>>344573501
I stand corrected.
not at all. it's the future
i'm a hardcore oldfag (i was a kid when star trek was first airing). i watched video games go from being curios with 1 that MIT squares wasted days away at in basements filled with computers that were pushed to their limit by crosses and naughts, to today where just about anyone can learn in a day to make a simple game and run it. the fact that it can be shared and downloaded anywhere with the only barrier being internet speed is mindblowing.
it's like people complaining about that automatic truck that had a dial to change gears instead of a stick. it might seem uncool, not as good as the real physical thing to you, but to me it's the future. i feel like sci-fi is coming true.
>>344573945
no, you don't because you're a false-flagging moonshine brewing hick. You already chimped out in this thread once when someone pointed out that you can't read a chart.
>>344574108
I'm >>344573230 according to the image posted they were both in second, as it turns out they're both in the third qaurtile.
>>344574527
You can stop North Carolina, just stop posting and you won't get made fun of anymore.
>not wanting a sweet looking collectionthis isn't mine
>>344574858
>that policenauts collection
cozy
>>344560432
pretty much this
i love physical copies of my media so much, but digital is also just so damn cheap.
i still plan on buying physical copies of all my digital media. specifically my favorite things, but who knows if ill ever get around to that.
>>344560031
Because I'm am adult and I'll have to move house occasionally in my life.
>>344568632
>implying only midnight releases happen in modern day
Shit, I remember waiting in line at EB games at midnight for games like Starcraft, GTA San Andreas, WoW and several expansions. Doesn't seem to happen much these days as the EB games shut down, and the gamestop doesn't carry PC games anymore.
>>344574858
>>344560031
Nigga, it's convenient.
>>344576223
if you live in montana maybe
Physical copies are so nicer,you feel somewhat happy of owning a good game,even while playing It.
A physical copy can last a very long time If you actually put It In the cd case If not in the console instead of cutting bread with it or whatever.
>>344574858
Kojimbo would like you.
>>344560031
That's autistic, anon.
The game is what matters, the data. Data can take many forms; you don't need a disc.
I prefer physical for shelf candy and resale value.
