Recently started mixing it up as well. If it’s a game I will play, 100%, and likely not touch again, I’ll get physical so I can sell it when I’m done. Games like MCC are digital.

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Exactly how I have always done it. If I know I won’t play it again I’ll just get a copy I can sell / trade in, everything else is digital.

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Yeah definitely get a few good retail games.

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I have been pure digital on the PC for years.

However, the Xbox One just simply does not have the internal expandable storage space options that a PC has, so I’m going with Physical.
Plus with game sizes ballooning to 40-50Gb in size, my 15Mbps ADSL connection cries tears of blood.

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Storage space, cost and download speed aren’t an issue for me. Having to wait nearly 48 hours to be able to play Advanced Warfare was what finally knocked my all digital dream on the head.

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That really does not make a lot of sense. It does not matter if you go digital or physical, the game still has to install to the hard drive so what is the difference?

Plus you paid extra money to have a bigger drive in your p.c so $80 for a 2TB external usb 3.0 for the xbox one isn’t that big of a deal really.

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Exactly lol, good post.

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I do *not* wish to have over 9,000 boxes connected to my Xbox One, complete with 9,001 cables, it’s ugly and defeats the purpose of just having “One Box”.
My PC’s drives are all internal for that very reason.

Sony took the right path and actually made their Hard Drive user replaceable, so it’s a piece of cake to drop in a 4TB Western Digital Black.

With Steam the content I download, does not affect my internet download cap, it’s data free, I will happily leave my PC on all night to download a game without having to worry that I will be reduced to dial-up rates the next day.

Conversely, it’s simply faster installing from disc than downloading and I’m not to worried about uninstalling a game to make space if I have the optical disc on hand.

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Don’t over dramatize….it’d be one box, right? Or are you intending to get 1000s of 1GB external boxes!!!!?
Once your 4TB PS4 internal drive is maxed out what do you do? There’s only one drive bay right?
How exactly does Steam not impact your download cap but the X1 does?????
The only valid point you make is the final one – yes disc install will be faster.

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I am a PC gamer, twit.

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“Plus with game sizes ballooning to 40-50Gb in size, my 15Mbps ADSL connection cries tears of blood.”
What about me, i’m going 75% digital games and i have ONLY 4Mbps ADSL, and with the Xbox One’s poor handling of downloads and installs, it can easily take for me 24+Hour to download a 20GB game like Titanfall, just a tip: if you want to download something big like 40GB, just let your Xbox One on overnight, hope that helps, and another thing i’ve noticed, idk why but there’s no difference playing a multiplayer game with a download on or not, tried it with destiny etc. Believe me😛 So then if there’s a download going on the Xbox and you want to play an MP game, just go for it!

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Agreed. I feel ripped off.

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Yeah, most of my games are actually single player focused games which I bought digitally. So I couldn’t play Soul Suspect earlier because of the partial outage, which is a shame. My internet goes down and i’ll only have the option to play Evil within (great game) or the Bf4 campaign…

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how do you expect the m to give you physical stuff when you are buying a digital game? Do you expect them to mail it to you?

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Yes

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Anubis, read my reply to Nick above and you’ll understand what I mean by feeling ripped off. I could give a rat’s behind about the physical swag. It’s the digital bonuses we’re not getting that’s the rip off, because it’s totally within MS’s power and ability to give them to us.

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Actually, you are a bit off. The original plan was to allow people to buy a game code in store that would be redeemed for a digital license. In other words, you would still get good pricing since retail stores would be competing with one another.

A decent solution would be to let stores sell the digital codes in addition to the physical copies. I don’t need to play these games at midnight, so I’d be fine getting release day shipping from Amazon for a card with a QR code on it. Retailers would compete, and we’d get digital copies. In fact, it would make manufacturing, shipping, and warehousing much cheaper. In my opinion, it is a win-win.

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That’s a good solution. By digitally I meant that games could be bought retail on disc as a sort of quick install method but it links to the account. That’s the part about the X1 I liked.

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Yes, in total agreement with you, A.J. As I’ve said before, MS has the power to make this happen literally overnight. You can already walk into MS Stores and buy digital codes for games that have already been released, so why not allow us to pre-order a digital copy? Heck, if MS has to be stubborn and only offer the pre-order bonuses through the Microsoft Store (as a way of driving traffic in), so be it, but then at least give me the choice to pre-order a digital copy. I’ll still show up at the store physically on launch night or the day after and pick up the card along with the swag. If this had been a choice, I wouldn’t even be here complaining about it.

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Why do people need incentives to buy a product these days?? I just don’t get you people. either you want said product or not, it’s no one else’s choice but yours to buy something. If you don’t like not getting swag then wait and go buy the physical copy!

I’m not sure how young or how smart you are, but ever since you could buy everything over the internet, retail stores have suffered big time. That is why you will see places offer online only or in store only deals / coupons a lot.

MS is popping up stores all over the place so they will try to entice you to roll into said store to spend some money. It’s simple how it works and EVERY store does it for obvious reasons. No one twisted your arm to buy digital, that was your choice so you will have to deal with it.

Common knowledge since over a decade ago, you buy digital, you get nothing else with it, period. Plus you are getting a few little dlc items for buying it digital anyways so I’m not sure why you said what you did about that.

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Dude chill out, I’m just saying a small incentive would be nice, nothing major. Calm your t*ts mate.
I’m mixing in digital purchases with my retail purchases, I bought master chief digitally while I got evil within retail. I’m happy with my digital purchases because in the end I get to play my game.
A decade ago? Sorry but there’s been advancments in technology since then.
I am dealing with it and please don’t use that word “SWAG” every time I see or here it I feel like ripping someone’s insides out.

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Nick, aren’t you being a bit ignorant? Over on PSN, several digital games have offered the same DIGITAL bonuses that physical pre-orders get. Case in point, GTA V on PS4 offers an additional $300,000 in GTA bucks in addition to the $1M all pre-orders get. Infamous: Second Son had the same digital pre-order bonuses. And while not as frequent, Sony occasionally offers PSN money back (usually $10-15) for a certain amount of money spent, as well as plenty of sales with great discounts (particularly for PS Plus members) that put the the weekly Deals with Gold to shame. I’m not asking that Microsoft do the impossible and mail out physical swag to every digital customer that couldn’t be bothered to come into their store, but digital customers deserve better treatment than this. Microsoft profits more off of them than they do retail customers, they don’t even have to ship the product to them or to stores, so why can’t they pass on some of the savings to those customers as well? Giving $25 in digital credit is not the same as the company giving out $25 actual dollars, gamers will spend that $25 in the Xbox Store and likely will spend even more, so it benefits Microsoft in the end. By not offering those bonuses to their digital customers, they are actually leaving money on the table, because those customers will be reluctant to pre-order or buy digital OR physical from them ever again, as I am now.

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Its understandable that by going digital you are not going to get the physical swag, but that’s no excuse for Microsoft not to reward digital pre-orders with the DIGITAL bonuses, namely the Xbox Rewards bonus ($15) and the $10 Xbox store bonus. Digital purchasers are among the most loyal customers at all as they are literally trusting MS with their money by buying an EULA with no physical product that they can resell. And it’s the SAME COMPANY. Microsoft could make this right RIGHT NOW by extending the digital bonuses to all people who have already pre-ordered the game as well as those who will pre-order before the deadline (at least for those in North America, where the Microsoft Store promo is limited to, I believe). What’s stopping them? Nothing. Yet they are still sticking it to us.

Just for the record, when I pre-ordered my digital copy of MC Collection the day it became available on the Xbox Store, I was under the impression that I would be getting the same digital bonuses as those who pre-ordered the physical copy from the MS Store. It was only days later when I was watching a Gametrailers podcast discussing the bonuses that I realized I was mistaken, and I went back and read the fine print and realized I’d been hosed. There are no refunds, and I want to stay digital, so I’ve had to swallow this bitter pill. This may be the last digital game I purchase on my Xbox One ever, if Microsoft doesn’t start treating its customers better.

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Nick, while I appreciate your input, you are missing a major point. The fact is that this is Microsoft selling the product both physically and digitally. The same retailer. And they almost definitely take a higher margin on digital copies and don’t have to physically ship a disc out to me, so just by those merits they are getting a higher return for the same sale. And on top of all of this they still give out an extra $10 for pre ordering any game from the Microsoft Store. It’s just a shady business practice to offer all these incentives to buy the product physically when your company also makes the Xbox One and is pushing this new digital age.

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*sad face* (No offense, Larry).

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Hey, it’s my slightly off buddy who doesn’t think before he talks!!! Do me a favor, if you ever leave your moms basement to goto a job, stand up to your boss and tell him he sucks at everything he does. Let me know now much longer you are employed afterwards.

Sometimes you just have to roll with what’s going on, everyone answers to someone. Larry has many bosses above him and has to create plans with what he has to work with. Just like everyone else that works. You might not always like or agree with everything where you work but if you like a paycheck, you roll on.

Again, why are you even here? I mean I don’t mind laughing at you every time you post something but don’t you have anything better to do than to spew hate garbage all day long? What a sad life you must lead😀

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You should have written an even longer bs response imo, didnt read lol

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I feel bad you son,leave the basement and stop trolling.

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isnt it like 3 am in america atm? lol

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Funny how some tattooed Latino who had a child out of wedlock defends millionaires like the insignificant wannabe he is. You truly are pathetic. You’re the prototype Xbox fanboy.

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I was asking about the digital on xbox store so i can buy and preload not release date lol.

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Oh well they usually release midnight US time.

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I think you miss my point dude lmao, i was talking about when will be available for purchase like assassins creed and masterchief collection is.cause i want to buy now and preload if i can . Cause if you look at xbox store on xbox one you will see new games avaiable for purchase while gta5 for xbox one isn’t even in the database and its 12 days aways before launch.

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Do you need 12 days to pre load? I mean I’m sure it will be available by next week. Just keep a look out and once it becomes available, Major Nelson will let us all know – like normal.

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Yes i do, i mean psn has it up digital preorder i might swing that way since microsoft is sluffing right now i mean far cry 4 and assassins creeds are ready to preload on xbox one and purchased so why not GTA 5 atleast have some info on it at xbox store. Search gta 5 on xbox one store theres nothing not even a coming soon picture.

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It will be available for preorder next week which is plenty of time to download. Major will make a post here when it’s ready as always. If you are so impatient then do it on the ps4 lol…

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Yep i will go to ps4 thanks since microsoft doesn’t like money no wonder they are losing the war.

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For one there is no war (and I hate people that think that, no offense) and two, don’t blame others because you are impatient lol. “Hey look everyone, I bought a game I can’t play 1 week earlier than everyone else”!!!!!

Color me impressed… j/k. It’s your choice so enjoy it.

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We should be able to buy it early like steam does with there games but they don’t preload til 3 day before release.but i understand it’ll get people to stray away from buying assassins creed unity,halo collection, and far cry 4 digital sales.i have all these xbox gift card don’t wanna enter them cause kids will buy a game i dont want on there and i don’t wanna keep them uncratched either.

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Its not MS its Rockstar, they haven’t supplied it to Microsoft yet.

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Why would they supply it to PS4 and Sony but leave out Xbox one and Microsoft? Makes no sense.

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Marketing, it makes full sense. Sony may have paid for early access, or contract based.
You never know unless you know the deals between them b

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We’ll have to agree to disagree – bring out a product which we pay for isn’t a “recognition”. Yes it’s good value – but the issue I am alluding to is that the article above mentions USA, USA and USA. There is not ONE mention of the world and fan-base outside of the USA.

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Not sure, the above story states ordering before November 10th – it’s a glitch

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Some of MS’s systems were having issues the other day so I wonder if their shopping cart is glitched at the moment. I’d just keep trying until it works😀

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I’ve already completed the Games on Demand punchcard, so there are no rewards that I would qualify for buying digitally. Unless you count the $0.50 rebate that I get back for being a VIP.
My issue isn’t so much the $10/$15 gift cards (though it is a little irksome), it is the whole issue with digital game pricing, and availability from third-party resellers. For a company that touted a digital future and how great it would be, they have a long way to go to make that even resemble a bit of what they promised.

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Well if you have the punch cards done surely your star level must be close to 10% back but I understand where you are coming from.

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I was being facetious, Mr. Forum Police and Hall Monitor. Lighten-up a bit, dude,

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Nope, I’m just sick of morons that constantly complain about everything in their unhappy lives. “I didn’t get this so I’m owed that”, ” a sale happened after I bought something, it’s MS’s fault”..wwhhhaaaaaaa. I wish people would grow up and act like adults for a change.

When I see a post like yours, unless obviously stated, I don’t see it as a joke, but yet another crybaby post since posts like that take up 98% of every forum / message board on any given site.

I have the digital copy as well and I’m totally fine with not getting any physical swag. I’m at least realistic and I know how things work to a degree, but I find it funny how people these days only see the top layer when they complain. It’s amazing at how blind and stupid people can really be. It’s sad actually, why not educate yourself a bit before commenting?

I’m not trying to fix anyone, but I like for people to try and at least see there’s more than one side to everything and to not just fly off the handle and cry and complain about EVERYTHING for a change.

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Try not to have emotional reactions to what people are saying on the internet, it’s a juvenile activity. Also, I am leery of people who think that people are stupid and morons for having an opinion. You say you wish people would grow up, well news flash buddy, there are a multitude of ages that frequent this site and everybody is at different points in their development and understanding of the world. If I were you, I’d quit being so dismissive and critical of others views and start giving people a little more credit and respect.

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