I just noticed the other day after buying Goat Simulator (it's amusing, but wait for a sale, I predict the wait will not be a long one). I just passed the 666 games mark on Steam. I thought that was pretty interesting so I dressed up my profile in some of the more Satanic badges and backgrounds that I have.
For discussion, to those who have abandoned physical media, or even just partially have, when did you decide that you didn't want to purchase physical copies anymore? What was the reason you chose to? How many games do you own on digital distribution? Which are your favorites to use?
To answer my own questions:
I just partially have abandoned physical media, I still do buy collector's editions of some games, the last one was being BioShock: Infinite. I decided not to buy physical editions of games anymore when I tried to pre-order Ghostbusters: The Video Game from EB Games, the dense manager kept insisting the game was cancelled, as no one buys PC games anymore. The game was delayed, the manager's general ineptitude and lack of any real ability to read their own system pushed me to just order it from the American Amazon, but it showed up (unannounced) on Steam before the game arrived. Was at that point I decided that getting anything other than collector's editions on line was where I was going to go. I still only order collector's editions from Amazon. I do buy Steam cards from EB Games/Gamestop just to look at manager's reactions, their fear is delicious. My favorite online distribution is Steam, but I use all of them, I have 48 games on GoG, and 12 on Origin, I had three on another online distribution, was run by Filefront I believe? Was bought out years ago, they released the keys and installers I have them saved on an external drive.
So to those who have embraced the future, what are your thoughts?
For discussion, to those who have abandoned physical media, or even just partially have, when did you decide that you didn't want to purchase physical copies anymore? What was the reason you chose to? How many games do you own on digital distribution? Which are your favorites to use?
To answer my own questions:
I just partially have abandoned physical media, I still do buy collector's editions of some games, the last one was being BioShock: Infinite. I decided not to buy physical editions of games anymore when I tried to pre-order Ghostbusters: The Video Game from EB Games, the dense manager kept insisting the game was cancelled, as no one buys PC games anymore. The game was delayed, the manager's general ineptitude and lack of any real ability to read their own system pushed me to just order it from the American Amazon, but it showed up (unannounced) on Steam before the game arrived. Was at that point I decided that getting anything other than collector's editions on line was where I was going to go. I still only order collector's editions from Amazon. I do buy Steam cards from EB Games/Gamestop just to look at manager's reactions, their fear is delicious. My favorite online distribution is Steam, but I use all of them, I have 48 games on GoG, and 12 on Origin, I had three on another online distribution, was run by Filefront I believe? Was bought out years ago, they released the keys and installers I have them saved on an external drive.
So to those who have embraced the future, what are your thoughts?