PotW results materialise

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Record-setting quarters are one thing, but trouncing the PALGN Poll of the Week in your favour is no doubt an event of its own. Evidently enough, certain unnameable retail chains definitely have nothing to concern themselves over in regards to last Sunday's PotW questioning.

As far as PALGN readers are concerned, the tried and true method of physically heading over to the local game emporium reigns supreme in their preferred consumer way of life for the foreseeable future. As many as 84 per cent of those who voted do not think all games should ever exclusively be purchasable digitally, with the remaining 16 per cent consensus minimal in making their series-of-tube-like stands.

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9 Comments

Marky Mark

4 years ago

You saying 84% would rather go down to the store and buy their games makes it sound as though the ritual of actually going to a bricks and mortar is part of the appeal. It's probably more a case of having a physical medium which can be sold and traded in the future as well as the "security" of having something they can actually hold in their hands.

Or maybe there's just some nostalgic attachment to having videogames in their physical form, considering music is doing quite successfully down the digital purchase route.

ObsoletE

4 years ago

^ while i also prefer buying a physical CD (or record/DVD etc.) to downloading bits and bytes containing the music, in the case of last weeks POTW, i think it was a case of extremes.
"do you think all games should exclusively be purchasable digitally?"

and like i said in the poll's thread, i've no issue with all games being available either digitally, or physically, or even some games exclusive to the digital delivery route (as is the case for a lot of XBLA, WiiWare and PSN Store games now) but ALL games only available digitally is a definite no - especially in the case of collector's editions, until they work out a way of transmitting my Big Daddy down the phone line, it's not going to happen. (and don't remind me that i can find all sorts of "Big Daddies" on the internet if i know where too look...)

Deus Sceleris

4 years ago

I think the main reason 84% chose no, was because of the word "exclusively".

djrussell

4 years ago

BuG wrote

Thats why i like physical media. Digital will and forever be (for me) a last resort. For example, the new Quest for Booty on PS3 - i will simply wait 1 month to buy it on Blu-ray disc than download it. Im dying to play it, but I dont want to spend $25 odd on something that is stored on a hard drive somewhere.

phenomenon9999

4 years ago

There is also a matter of DRM protection that come swith digital downloads. Not that all of them have it but the fact that you can't really transfer it other people or let someone borrow the game and such. I like to lend my games to my friends.

I also like the idea of it conveniently being on disc. When internet speeds reach like 1GB per secon or something fast like that, I rather have physical copies. It is only because Aussie internet suck. One game on PS3 or Xbox can potentially put your internet speeds in the throttled zone and if you still get charged for excess usage, then your pretty screwed.

heatseeker

4 years ago

256kbps internet isnt kind to me, so i had to vote on no.

AllSchoolGamer

4 years ago

i will never again buy console games digitally...i have to have the disc (or whatever) or i wont buy it...what do you do with these games 1 or 2 or more generations of consoles later? as a collector i dont want to have to buy someones hd just to own certain games. as far as im concerned this is a very bad move...or perhaps great marketing from these companies.
i bought 2 games from xbla (sf2 and uno) and they are the last.

notsofat

4 years ago

Deus Sceleris wrote

I think the main reason 84% chose no, was because of the word "exclusively".

agreed.

especially since in australia, because game companies are essentially c**'s, games on steam can save you as much as 50% on release, saying all games should be available digitally as well as in store would yield very different results.

Skiller

4 years ago

notsofat wrote

Deus Sceleris wrote

I think the main reason 84% chose no, was because of the word "exclusively".

I agree too, the poll should have had four options:
1. All games should be exclusively downloadable.
2. All games should be downloadable. (What I would have voted)
3. Things should stay as they are with some downloadable and some not. (The equivilant of No in the actual poll)
4. No games should be downloadable.

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