Games: Digital vs Physical
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009It’s been an interesting enough week and I’m sure I could ramble about something half-way interesting, but I’m going to ramble on about Steam and other digital download options instead.
I’ve a friend at work who occasionally brings up Team Fortress 2 and part of me always cringes, as the requirement for me to play would mean that I would have to finally bite the bullet and get a Steam account. That or camp out as his house for weeks on end.
I think the former would work out better.
Steam in itself isn’t evil, and buying something off of Steam isn’t akin to throwing away your money, but it just hasn’t made a lot of sense to me to get an account and purchase any games from them.
As I mentioned back in Oct 2008, I’m a fan of hard media for games. This is/was for two reasons:
- I want to be able to install/reinstall without limitations.
- I support the right to resale/trade/give away used goods.
