Hi,
I will miss them, basically I like having discs for my computer. Just think as the old CD's and DVD's go away and more people start downloading their games, music, and movies, the internet compainies are going to start modding the bandwidth, allowing you just so much and then charging you for the extra bandwidth that you need. Don't say it isn't going to happen , just 2 years ago I had unlimited bandwidth, then they cut it down to 500 gigabyte, then just last month it was cut in half again down to 250 gigabyte plus they raised the price by $10, and then to top it off Microsheet is coming up with updates every other day (using up more of my precious bandwidth). So you don't think you will miss those CD's and DVD's think again.
By the way the politicians are once again discussing taxing the internet by bandwidth usage after all we computer people have been having too much fun for to long.
smerf
I agree.
there is nothing like walking into a shop and buying a physical product, getting it home and playing it.
I recently got a ps3 and a copy of Infamous 2. In it came a code allowing me to get the first Infamous and a reduced cost through download. Great I thought until I noticed the game is 7.8gb in size. Thats 7.8gb of bandwidth allowance that my ISP is gonna take off my "unlimited" (which I have just found is actually 250gb under their fair usage policy. After which they will impose restrictions on my line up to and including cutting my my line completely) allowance. Now if I had got that game from Game in the first place i would have probably paid the same for a new copy and not needed to bother with downloads.
There is one thought I have always had at the back of my head regarding all this download buisness. What happens if the service suddenly goes out of buisness. What happens to all my content that I purchased. Especially if your someone that uses a cloud based service such as On Live. Sure I could backup content from Steam, for example. But there are a lot of other services that use this cloud based model where nothing is physically stored on your system. So you can't actually back anything up. What happens then? And what happens if my backup suddenly becomes corrupt?
I know people will argue that ownin a physcial copy puts you just as much at risk. For example the boxes of Amiga floppies that are already coroding or losing data due to use. But when it comes to modern media, so long as you look after them right, should last for ever almost.
Also there is the second hand market that these shops provide. Something that the game industry seems to working very hard on destroying.
plus it just looks cool to have boxes sat on a shelf. Like with my collection of 2600, 7800, C64, NES, SNES, Mega Drive, Amiga, Playstation, Playstation 2 and XBOX 360 games. looking at them is like a little pat on the back to myself. because I have worked hard and bought them from a shop with money I have earned. Something that downloads doesn't seem to give.
