Comment on What's your preferred way of buying games? (digital/physical/physical digital)
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
90% of the games I play are bought on Steam or GOG, 9% are free Epic giveaways and the last 1% is Alan Wake 2 which I had to buy on Epic because it’s not available anywhere else and I wanted to support Remedy.
I know the discussion about digital only, and I think game preservation is a great cause. There is definitely a danger with digital only. However, for me as a user having a digital library is just unbeatably convenient. My whole library is easily browsable and sortable and with modern high speed fiber internet any game I feel like playing or re-playing is just a click and a few minutes away.
I don’t really have any desire to go back to having to constantly fuck around with discs when I want to play something.
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I agree about the fact that having digital games is great for just launching them without leaving your chair, but managing your digital storage space can be a bigger hassle in some cases
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
Yeah install sizes are getting outrageously large these days, I can see you running out of space if you like to keep many games installed and ready to return to. I never run into it because I am typically “install -> play through once -> uninstall”, but it could definitely be a problem yeah.
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It’s true that I forgot that you can just uninstall them if you don’t plan on replaying them😅