You buy digital or physical copy of Andromeda?

I used to prefer discs but I love digital. It has soooo many perks. No disc changing. No scratching. No taking up space. I can forget about it when I travel to my second home and then just download it there. Discs seemed like the best idea because they were tangible, but now I think of them like CDs. MP3s and so much more convenient. As are digital versions of the game. Case and point: I was playing ME3 yesterday and went to grissom academy before doing the summit meeting. Right after I choose to do that on the map I get sucked into the mission and am forced switch the disc. This is even with it installed on the xbox. Fine. Not a big deal to get up and switch discs. Then I do grissom then start the main quest one and then get a heads up about some other cerberus thing and do that one and discover I have to change the disc again. WTF. So I change the disc then have to change it again to go back to the main. Yeah. I have no idea how many discs MEA came on because I didn't have to change them. That's a good thing.

He has a diamond  on his back. Flaps. Ewww. That really is troubling me for some reason. Skin should be smoother. Not rigid with flaps and ewwness. I feel like they tried so hard to make them unique that they over reached. The chest. The back. Something that looks like hair that is attached to their neck and back. Angara look to me like someone on LSD drew a human then tripped out and made all these changes.

Also, the calves are kind of an implausible design with how far back they are pushed. With the amount of body weight they are supporting, gravity would fuck up their knees in a very short time. They really need to start considering this sort of thing when making alien races. Legs should be more fully aligned. It should look more plausible like the quarians at least, not like some kind of  ridiculous design where you really want to know how it is that the whole race doesn't have some kind of serious leg issue.

My PC games tend to be digital, while console games physical.

Physical. I still buy CDs for music too. Guess I'm just getting old.

I normally buy physical but I had received a $50 XBox credit, plus, with EA Access subscription, I got an extra 10% so I only ended up spending $40 for the Super Deluxe Edition.

I find I'm buying more digital now than I used in the past though. I bought a 4 TB external drive for my Xbox and find there are a lot of good digital deals/packages that will pop up that aren't available for the physical discs (ex: in Nov, they had the Deluxe Editions of Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2 for a combined $70 through the digital store).

If all the Digital PC sales went through Origin, and EA Origin doesn't really share the sales figured from Origin, its going to tough to speculate the sales figures of the game. Other than EA/BioWare coming out and saying it explicitly, like it did with "Dragon Age Inquisition after 2 months, I guess the EA investor calls may be the best way or any recent fluctuation in their stock.

Most times I go for Physical (at least with AAA games). I am just one of those "oldies" the like to have something touchable, and (if possible) with a nice picture on the front. Something that sits nicely on a shelf with other great titles.

But I guess I am used to it because several decades back the only thing you could get a game on was a physical medium. I still have the cassette tapes with games for my Acorn Atom, and Acorn BBC computer. Later on the games came on Floppy discs (5 1/4 size for Aviator, Castle Quest and Elite for the BBC - And later titles for BBC and RiscPC on 3 1/2), and DOS and Windows games on CD-ROM.

Anyway - While I love to see something on a physical medium, ME:A was never brought out on a real install medium (as far as I know). The box only contained a sheet with a game code - for a game that you completely have to download. So - while the box was physical, the game itself was fully digital. And that makes the OP's question a bit moot I guess.

When I lived in a rural area for about a year or two there was only 1 ISP and I had a 10GB per month limit so I had to go back to buying physical discs...Almost every game I bought during that time was like a 300mb disk with a digital download key instead. I don't even know why those publishers bother printing the disks at that point.


I felt the same way about books until I actually got a Kindle. The convenience is unbelievable. I like that I can read a 1000 page book and never feel the weight of it after an hour, I don't have to adjust the lighting of the room during the day/night, I can instantly look up words in the text for definitions, don't have to keep track of bookmarks, or wear down the binding from overuse. Though I get people like the sort of ritualistic experience every time they read.


I do what I want

 

The day you can trade-in a digital game is the day i'll start buying digital.

Every other reason you listed (while valid) aren't enough for me to say 30-50% off the next game I buy isn't worth it.

Oh man did you have to show that Vid????  In my much younger days I had a serious crush on her and could watch that vid for hours

I would have bought a physical copy, if there was an actual DVD inside the box. As they just sold an empty box, I just bought on Origin.

Also you are at the mercy of multi-national corporations who if their CEOs get into a pissing contest the customers will be the ones who get screwed. I buy digital movie and TV shows but when I get a chance I will always get and generally prefer a DVD and/or Blu-Ray over a digital release, because I have more Blu-Ray/DVD players than streaming devices. Also if I want to watch a show that I bought the MS store I can only watch it on MS approved devices, buy it on Blu-Ray and/or DVD I can play on any Blu-Ray/DVD player I currently have.