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[Harrod200]

Will you be buying a digital copy of the game or a physical, and why?

Up until a few minutes ago I had a Steam preorder, but realised that;
1. I have £7.50 of GAME vouchers
2. GAME tend to ship so it arrives a day early
3. The whole 'we can cancel your account whenever we want for no reason' clause in Steam is...disconcerting.

Hooray for Distance Selling Regulations.

[Birdman117]

Physical copy.



Why? Call me old fashioned, but I just prefer to have the physical disk.

[Harrod200]

Also means you don't have to download 20GB...



Is it true that BW get a bigger cut from digital sales? If so, that'd probably be the only reason to tempt me to digital, but even then my selfishness would probably make me go physical.

[Vamp44]

Physical. I prefer to have the actual casing and game disk in hand. I mean come on you get the case, the manual, the disk...ahh I love it.

[Xeyska]

Physical copy, my internet sucks too much for downloading large files, and I don't have the patience in waiting for it to be completed.

[Revan312]

I went with Steam, I actually did have my account with them canceled a while back because they were banning another player with a nearly identical account name and screwed up, and I called em and worked it out in less than an hour so I have no problem with em.



I was with gamestop before steam had the digital deluxe up for sale and I saw that it came with everything that the normal CE had PLUS another weapon. So no wait time (Unless the download servers get screwed the first day), it was cheaper because of no shipping or tax and I don't have to mess with a hard copy getting scratched/broken. I think digital distribution is great and I've bought nearly every game in the past 2 years from steam...

[Birdman117]

Yea waiting for it to download would suck. I just pre-order from Amazon and have it in my mail on release day.



As for the revenue Bioware gets from digital? That I have no idea about.

[Kriselia]

Physical, gives a more concrete feeling of owning the game. And it adds nicely to the lineup of games on the bookcase

Not to mention the CE has awesome goodies like the art book.

[BanditGR]

If they follow the same system as in Dragon Age, I believe that the physical copy also makes you eligible for the digital one (so that you don't have to keep the CD inside the case if you don't want to), so I'll just go with that.

[Deinonychus]

I'm buying the physical copy, just because I'm getting the CE edition and would like the physical items.



If I hadn't planned to get the CE version, or there was no CE version, I would probably get digital.

[denouement1]

I used to always go physical. But once I started buying digital copies, I realized how much better they are, for me at least.



No losing disks or keys and with a broadband connection it doesn't take that long to download a game. This is epically true if the game support pre-loading. You get 99% of the game downloaded before it's released, then on release it finishes downloading and decrypts in 5 minutes and you are up and running.



Plus the convince of having all of your games stored in one application and, at least with Steam, a universal chat program built into every game. I can play mass effect or dragon age and still talk to my friend while he is playing left 4 dead.

[TheAnima]

 Physical. Digital is too contingent on the provider's fancies to be a valid form of media imho.

When I'm allowed to do whatever the hell I want with my digital produces like I can with my physical, I'll start buying that.

[Wrexdot]

I'm crazy, getting both (DDE on Steam and Physical CE)

[Revan312]

denouement1 wrote...

I used to always go physical. But once I started buying digital copies, I realized how much better they are, for me at least.

No losing disks or keys and with a broadband connection it doesn't take that long to download a game. This is epically true if the game support pre-loading. You get 99% of the game downloaded before it's released, then on release it finishes downloading and decrypts in 5 minutes and you are up and running.

Plus the convince of having all of your games stored in one application and, at least with Steam, a universal chat program built into every game. I can play mass effect or dragon age and still talk to my friend while he is playing left 4 dead.

^ this as well, I simply love Steam.  It's got everything I'd want plus more, and having all my games listed in one place ready to download or delete at a moments notice is wicked.

[Revan312]

TheAnima wrote...

 Physical. Digital is too contingent on the provider's fancies to be a valid form of media imho.

When I'm allowed to do whatever the hell I want with my digital produces like I can with my physical, I'll start buying that.

What do you mean, like modding?  Because steam copies have always worked no matter how I've modded the game, as long as you don't physically change the exe then it works, or always has for me *shrugs*