Downloadable Content Delivery vs. Physical Boxed Media whats your angle and thoughts on the pro's and cons of it?
were talking Download stores like Steam, Xfire, GFWL, Direct2Drive ect ect
Me I like both and often swing to what ever is cheaper at that time, which is more often then not steam, while some complain that you have to redownload if you format or remove it, I make it a point to backup the game with the steam backup utility and burn that backup to CD/DVD/DVDDL then if its needed again I can just pop the Disc in. It can be said I wish there was a more windows update style update system in steam so you can have your non update vital games update overnight scheduled that way rather than instantly and having to pause them till your ready unless its like say Counter Strike Source where you would need the latest version to play against others.
I Also do like proper media but only if im getting a better deal over steam, especially since some media games you buy don't come with paper manuals and seems to be just a disc in a case. that being said i don't agree with media games forcing steam on you, if you bought the game in a boxed form its probably because you didn't want to run it through an internet content delivery service lol.
So like I say for me, I go to who ever is cheaper Steam, battlenet or Retail. But I don't get hot and bothered about the whole "if its a (Insert Download Store Name) game you cant resell it" well EA are starting to stomp on that anyways also its not like for me personally I can walk into GameStop and sell off say... Painkiller Overdose (Although I really wish I could). and even then I don't like buying 2nd hand PC Games especially if they have multiplayer in them. People have been burned by buying a 2nd hand PC Game (lets say for instance Prey) to pop the key in and it say the key is banned for hacking, or the key has been blacklisted by the original owner getting himself a new a key after selling the game so he can keep it or even him keeping his cd key so your basically sharing the key.
This is my personal take on the pro's and con's and my preference. how about you?
were talking Download stores like Steam, Xfire, GFWL, Direct2Drive ect ect
Me I like both and often swing to what ever is cheaper at that time, which is more often then not steam, while some complain that you have to redownload if you format or remove it, I make it a point to backup the game with the steam backup utility and burn that backup to CD/DVD/DVDDL then if its needed again I can just pop the Disc in. It can be said I wish there was a more windows update style update system in steam so you can have your non update vital games update overnight scheduled that way rather than instantly and having to pause them till your ready unless its like say Counter Strike Source where you would need the latest version to play against others.
I Also do like proper media but only if im getting a better deal over steam, especially since some media games you buy don't come with paper manuals and seems to be just a disc in a case. that being said i don't agree with media games forcing steam on you, if you bought the game in a boxed form its probably because you didn't want to run it through an internet content delivery service lol.
So like I say for me, I go to who ever is cheaper Steam, battlenet or Retail. But I don't get hot and bothered about the whole "if its a (Insert Download Store Name) game you cant resell it" well EA are starting to stomp on that anyways also its not like for me personally I can walk into GameStop and sell off say... Painkiller Overdose (Although I really wish I could). and even then I don't like buying 2nd hand PC Games especially if they have multiplayer in them. People have been burned by buying a 2nd hand PC Game (lets say for instance Prey) to pop the key in and it say the key is banned for hacking, or the key has been blacklisted by the original owner getting himself a new a key after selling the game so he can keep it or even him keeping his cd key so your basically sharing the key.
This is my personal take on the pro's and con's and my preference. how about you?
