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Originally Posted by HappyDwarf
Me too. Digital Downloads all the way. I live in Spain (but not Spanish) and I don't like localized versions, I buy DD or from Play.com, otherwise...
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It's ironic, though. I used to be fairly critical about digital distribution, arguing that I might as well pirate games if I have to download them, but at some point I realised that all those boxes of about 25 years of gaming and buying games just take up space. A friend of mine coined the expression, "Collections own you." I also lost some CDs to cats and kids, and I didn't have any backups due to copy protected media.
Plus, the nice cardboard boxes, thick manuals and gimmicks are a thing of the past. Those 15-pages leaflets and generic DVD boxes lack any kind of charm, which also contributed to my change of mind about digital distribution. That, and my non-mainstream taste in games. Half the stuff 1C publishes doesn't make it to my store, but are games that I potentially quite enjoy.
The only downside is that I'm prone to impulsively buying (more) digital copies of games because I know I'll be playing them on the same day.
But then again, that's countered by the fact that the download portals often offer discounts or have great sales. (Men of War is currently less than 3 Euro at GG, so of course I have to buy that!)