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Digital games too cheap. :lol:

If anything, they're still far too expensive and buying physical wins out nearly every time.

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I'm still looking for parts 1-26 ;)

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Agreed, at least on consoles.

Since the PS4/XOne came out, I've bought 1 (one) game digitally, and that was only because I wanted to preload it and play first thing in the morning, and not wait for stores to open or do a midnight release (fuck that noise, amirite?). I still payed the same price as I would have if I'd gone to the store.

For me personally, I'm not one to build up a library of games to gawk at or to go back and replay months/years later. I like to resell my games, so my money will almost always go towards purchasing a physical copy.

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Yeah, who does their data collection? They might want to hire someone who isn't high.

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True for console, not true for PC. IMHO digital games SHOULD be at least $10.00 cheaper at launch.

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I did mean for consoles. This is Gamestop we're talking about here, after all. I'm not sure they even have a PC game section anymore.

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They do online...

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Digital games being too cheap? Nope. I never bought games until they drop below twenty anyway, digital or otherwise.

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For real. I'm way past the point of wanting a videogame collection. Heck, I don't even know why I still have so many titles from G6 and under. I'd be happy to go all digital on consoles....but as a matter of premise I can't without a price reduction. It just makes no sense to risk $59.99 on a release day title that I can't trade in. Even if it was a $9.99 discount I think I'd be happy enough to forego the physical copy.

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The prices would have to be cheaper than I can get at BestBuy with GCU for me to go digital (or the same with some digital bonuses/exclusives and a game I could just play here and there throughout the year).

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WTF was that guy talking about? Digital console games don't usually go on sale until well after their Physical copies have dropped substantially in price. And even then, they're usually $20 more than they should be. I paid $59 for Forza Horizon 2 digital when I could have had it for $45 physically because I didn't want to swap out discs to play that one.

He has to be including Steam on that, and last I checked Gamestop doesn't even sell PC games in stores unless it's a Blizzard title or Minecraft.

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Yeah, outside of PS+ freebies, downloadable games on consoles rarely go on sale, especially compared to their physical-disc counterparts.

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That has always been one of my main arguments against going fully digital. It moves it from being more of buyer's market, to being a seller's market, where the consumer base has very little control over pricing. Whether or not that's a good thing, long-term, for the industry or not, can be debated, but it would be hard shifting to a marketplace where an item's price potentially remains the same throughout its entire viable lifespan, even if demand has dropped.
Add to that the lack of consumer transferability, the need for massive storage space, and increasing content-security mechanisms (It still bugs me that I lost the ability to customize my Mii when I sent my Wii in for warranty service years ago), and shifting fully to a DD marketplace is an entirely unattractive prospect to me.

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What happened with him anyway? I don't remember a 'goodbye'.

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I do. Vaguely. He got pissed at some dissenting opinions or something and felt ganged up on.

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Yeah Fuck em. Sony and MS can control their own product and give away free games to their consumers.

Poor Gamestop.

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Life's gotta be rough if you're an arrogant contrarian with thin skin.

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Unless he went back and deleted a bunch of posts, I don't see anything too crazy from the last posts he had on here.

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I think a full thread got expunged.

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That might make sense; I know there were a few cases where people got mad and deleted threads they started in a fit. I don't recall if Pixy was one of those.

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I thought they fixed it so that no one could delete threads? I almost understand the ability to delete one's own posts; but no one should have the power to eliminate entire threads.

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That time Pixy started raving about some Japanese indie game whose title hadn't been translated into English yet. . . #VideoGameTalkClassics

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:lol: Too true.

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Yeah they did, in response to a poster or two doing that. I wasn't sure if Pixy might have done that to prior or one of the reasons that rule was created.

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If we start talking about SHMUPs he might come back.