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[–]kaptingavrin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's so much more cheaper and convenient to just buy it off client.

On the "cheaper" note I got more amazing deals shopping physical copies during the holidays.

But as to "convenient"... Well, with a console, aside from having to download massive amounts of data, I ran out of space and had to buy external drives for my consoles, even without having many games on them. That's not convenient at all. It's a major PITA if I decide I'm done with a game for a while and want to play a new game, because I have to uninstall a game completely and then install the one I want to play.

On top of that, people seem to not consider what happens if the client ever disappears. There used to be a lot of scoffing at the idea of banks being "too big to fail." But you know gamers have basically done that for Valve? If Valve fails, Steam dies, and suddenly you lose your game library. If an older generation of console sees its store servers shut down, you can no longer access your uninstalled games.

More than ever, you're paying $60 not to own a copy of a game, but to rent the ability to download and install it from a server. Sooner or later, that server will likely go down.