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Should PURCHASED digital games count in your collection?
UncleBob:
I, too, am a physical media kind of guy. While I love the convenience of having, say, a bunch of stuff loaded onto my 3DS - the fact that I don't own it and that Nintendo reserves the right to take it away from me at any time for any reason... ugh.
In my opinion - if you actually, truly own the game (like stuff you download from GOG), then, sure - it counts. If it's something that the terms of your purchase make it clear that you're just purchasing a license to the game and cannot (legally) resell it... then it's not a part of your collection.
Now, if the game has some kind of remote server dependance (even if you own the physical copy)... that's virtually the same as having a game that the publishers can take away from you at any time for any reason (although there is always the possibility of hacked servers). I pretty much just avoid these types of games - which is why I've not purchased Civ 5, although I've got every previous version of the game, including CivNet... :(
scaredtowake:
--- Quote from: wiggy on June 21, 2012, 06:13:27 AM ---Buuut, I see a lot of you guys "casing" digital-only games, and that just doesn't make sense to me.
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never understood this either.
mojoeskateco:
Same here.
That's a level of OCD that's way above mine ;D
wiggy:
I'm OCD as FUCK, but that's a bit much. Hell, I even cased each individual E-reader NES game, but digital download casing is beyond me.
Beastman1975:
the only digital games i plan on caseing are PSone titles i download throught the PSN network to play on psp the mem cards are pretty cheap so i put each on its own card and stuck them in psp cases i had laying around to its kinda like a hard copy anyhow