Buy the game digitally or physical?

I preordered it from the psn store, the Super Deluxe Edition. I don't really buy discs anymore either, don't have the patience to wait for the games to arrive by post lol.

Origin

I'm buying it on Origin - but something doesn't add up with the poll. You said "Steam", but BioWare said ME:A will NEVER go on Steam.

Well if the damn discs still allowed you to just pop it in and go, I'd get it for console with a physical copy. However, since regardless of whether you have a disc or not, you still have to "download" the game and then install the game (and probably update too)... there's no point in physical copies for me unless I want to have a case lying around.

So I'll be doing MEA digitally on PC with origin (unfortunately, wish I could use steam =/)

OMG, this is how my shelf looks like with all those old games! I need to sell or just throw them ASAP!

Always physical, even with movies I buy I always buy the physical copy. It feels more like it's mine and with the future of games/movies moving towards primarily digital, I like having my own game/movie collection. Also you can share it, sell it if you don't want it anymore or give it to one of your friends.

Not to mention that barring age, collection is permanent. Not everyone has the luxury of high-speed internet to download 50+ gigabyte files. If certain companies go under, the game may be removed from the marketplace as well. (i.e. Scott Pilgrim last gen.)

How about the event of hardware failure, and not being able to redownload your collection because they're removed from the marketplace? What's your plan B?

Heh, I get the point, but for me it's less about the space and more that I'm kinda messy so I try to limit what I can misplace or generally create disorder with.

Although if I added my 300 digital games to the physical ones, it would start adding up a bit...

Hardware failure? Oh I don't wait for that, I redownload what I still want to play whenever I change computers, I don't transfer the damn things. Despite multiple instances of having done this I've never run into this problem, so I'm not filing it under mammoth risk. And oh the benefit of not having to store the bloody things.

Now slightly skewering the physical copy plan, those I have lost to hardware failure on several occasions. They're bloody flimsy if you drop them. Or the cat decides to play with them. Guess what, you have to go find another copy to buy if you can. And sometimes you can't. Nope, give me this brave new world of digital copies because being lumbered with the physical and only the physical used to suck.

And come to think of it, don't physical copies these days just make you toddle off and download most of it anyway?

I will buy wherever is cheaper. Couldn't care less about sentimental crap to keep.

I'm talking strictly about those games being removed from marketplace, making downloads impossible. Never answered that question.