![]() Most limited editions are full of uninteresting tat that just clogs up your home, like that recent Monkey Island one that Limited Run Games did. I only buy limited editions if there’s something interesting in them, like a CD soundtrack not otherwise available. I’m an avid retrogamer and it worries me that I might not be able to go back to these games in 20-30 years time, like I do with my NES or Mega Drive games. The decline of physical copies is quite worrying to me, especially as it coincides with it becoming harder to preserve games. I don’t mind buying from GOG.com as they offer offline installers, and then it’s just down to me to back them up to multiple locations and never need worry about the store going down. ![]() This is entirely preference based, as I worry about the storage dying in 10 years and the digital store no longer existing to redownload from. I buy pretty much all my console games physically – I only go digital when it’s very clear that the game will never come out physically. The collection has been available digitally for quite a while. I bought it physically because that’s how I prefer my games. Last physical game I bought was Doom: The Classics Collection on Switch, though it’s a pre-order so it’ll be a while till it arrives. I appreciate I am in an ever-reducing minority, but it will be a sad day for me when I can’t buy physical any longer. OK, it’s a mild pain to have to get up to swap disks out occasionally, but over the lifetime of my PlayStation 4, I saved many hundreds of pounds by buying and reselling physical disks. However, for short-ish single-player games, I find it crazy that people are abandoning physical disks for digital options. If there’s a game I know I will play long term, then I would buy it digitally, e.g.
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