EA cutting library, focusing on digital distribution only

[Vagabond142]

http://pc.ign.com/articles/105/1051174p1.html

What I get from it: As the retail market shifts from boxed copies to digital licensing, EA is just following suit of companies like Valve, Epic, Blizzard, NC Soft, etc

[n1zm0]

no surprise, the last hardcopy of a game i bought was F.E.A.R 2, since then i have all digital copies, as long as Steam (which the majority of my purchased have gone through) servers dont self implode, i'm all good if i need to redownload, even then local backup has already been done.

[Vagabond142]

Call me old fashioned, but I do kinda like the physicality of a boxed copy. But, I do understand how and why the digital licensing movement has happened/is happening.

[A790]

Originally posted by Vagabond142
Call me old fashioned, but I do kinda like the physicality of a boxed copy. But, I do understand how and why the digital licensing movement has happened/is happening.
I bought Fallout 3 hardcopy for sentimental reasons. Otherwise, digital download for me.

[jsn]

For convenience it's nice being able to purchase games through steam, but I hate how long it can take for the game to download at times, as opposed to installing from disk

[Boat]

Yep, this is definately the trend. It's already hard to find PC games at EB now.

I got a good ten years of opening fresh boxes of computer games.. I can die happy :D

[Vagabond142]

Originally posted by Boat
Yep, this is definately the trend. It's already hard to find PC games at EB now.

I got a good ten years of opening fresh boxes of computer games.. I can die happy :D

Exactly... you need to have sniffed a new game at least once to be considered even remotely close to a geek :D