The Problem With Digital Downloads

That's funny, I buy digital games the exact opposite way. The games I don't care about, I buy physically but the games I do care about I buy digitally.
My reasoning is that if I really like the game, I'll want access to it all the time. Ready to go at a moments notice. E.g. Wife taking to long in the shower, resume BloodBorne and kill a few monsters. Maybe your watching TV waiting for the Hockey game to start, hello Ori and the Blind Forest.
I don't buy sports games digitally cause they improve very little from year to year. Plus, I subscribe to EA access if I want to play some football. Interestingly, though, I buy CoD every year digitally but barely play it. I think it's cause my brother only plays CoD, so when he's on I like to get a few games in with him. Digital Downloads make that easy as well. Someone you know pops on and you can have the same game loaded up in seconds.

I buy all sports and FPS games digitally as I always play those. All SP games I buy physically.

I don't buy any games digitally unless there is no option and the game is offered digital download only. In a perfect world, digital only is great. But there are too many issues with bandwidth, network crashes, not to mention the big issue the author brings up, no trade in value. For example, I bought The Order:1886 and enjoyed it, playing it through twice. But when I'm finished, that's it...I have no desire to return to it. If I bought it digitally, it just sits there, or I could delete it to free up disc space if necessary, but it no longer benefits me. But with my physical copy, I shipped it off to Amazon and they gave me 39 bucks for it. That's 39 bucks that was put toward Bloodborne, or could have been put toward another game/book/movie/product/whatev er. Now, I spend alot of money on my hobbies, and 39 dollars is 39 dollars. I'll take it. Until digital offers a comparable option, for me, it remains far behind physical because it costs the gamer money. If I added up all the games I trade back in over the course of a year, the total is in the hundreds of dollars. I generally only keep the games that I consider classics, to revisit in future months/years. So no thanks digital, I'll take that money back in pocket every day of the week, thanks.

I understand where you're coming from but, this is why the DD market is failing for full games because you are stuck with a game you no longer want

The problem we got rigth now is not enough buy digitally but thats slowly changing and in a few years digital will be strong enough to tackle hard copys. See right now Sony and MS don't want to p*ss off the brick and mortar stores who sell hard copys of games by making digital games cheaper which they could easily do. They could remove that overhead associated with hard copys (transport, staff, shop costs, warehouse costs. etc) and pass the savings on to you. The reason they dont and Digital games aren't released at £40 instead of £60 whcih ends up more than retail is because of the damage it would cause to shops. Once digital is strong enough they don't need shops to sell games anymore they can cut them overheads.

you might ask why would they do that as digital will be strong enough and that's easy as that leads to increased sales. The reason digital is getting so strong is because of sales on the stores. I bought BF4 with premium just recently for £22.50 I would never have bought that at launch but thats an extra £20 in EAs pocket and probably £2.50 for Sony. Money they would never have got through a hard copy as you cant find a new copy around anymore and they make nothing from pre-owned.

Microsoft has the myVip system in their rewards that kind of does that. I am Four Star, and I get 8% back every rewards period.

Edit: thought I had hit five stars and ten percent back, I was mistaken.

How is it being spoiled by being allowed to trade in games..

I can trade in old music, videos, dvd's, blurays... I can trade in clothes, car's, bikes, fridges... you name it.

Why are games a privilege to be allowed to trade in? I would rather trade a game any day then share a digital library.

Still pushing the old MS saw the future, please let it go, just let it go..