"Over the next two days, we will present a special pair of Daily Fives as we hash out which is the way to go: Buy digital or stay physical. Today, we lead off with five reasons why digital purchases are the only way to go in this generation of gaming." - Travis Tucker
"30XX is one of the best roguelikes out there, combining the tight platforming action of the Mega Man X series with the challenge and randomization that roguelike fans crave. Batterystaple Games has done lots of refinement through updates since 30XX first appeared on Steam Early access a few years ago. The latest such update adds a new character for free, one who combines the best attributes of the two existing characters. Also, the Steam version is on sale, making it a great time to travel to the distant year of 30XX!" says Co-Optimus.
"Hammerwatch II's journey to Xbox has been long and perilous. After first launching on Steam in the fall of 2023, the game finally turned up on PlayStation 5 last December. Since then, Xbox gamers who enjoyed the original Hammerwatch and the sublime Heroes of Hammerwatch have been anxiously awaiting their turn at the long-promised sequel. At last, the wait is nearly over because Hammerwatch II will hit Xbox and PlayStation 4 on April 23," says Co-Optimus.
Joe 'Three Sheets' Neate (Executive Producer): "As I’m sure you can imagine, when it comes to Sea of Thieves my days are full of numbers. Development costs, active servers, days until the next update… Sometimes, though, a truly extraordinary number stands out – a number like 40 million, which I’m incredibly pleased to say is the number of pirates who’ve now set sail in Sea of Thieves!"
Garrr... more people to walk the plank and send to Davey Jones locker.
would have been funny to release this on talk like a pirate day.
40 million have set sail...that's great. How many are sailing now? Monthly active users....when it actually matters. How many people purchased the game is another important number.
You don't get numbers like that from MS mouth pieces, they just like to say stuff like "this game was looked at 129 million time, the biggest amount of people browsing a game of this genre on xbox gamepass ever in the last 3 weeks compared to before gamepass was out (small print only 2 million bothered playing longer than 20 seconds and only 100 people are playing it concurrently)
It's all smoke and mirrors
There are usually around 10,000 concurrent users on Steam not counting Xbox or PS but really it doesn't matter as long as there are enough people on the servers to play which there always were and will be for a long time now with the PS players coming on board. Same goes for how many people bought it and how many are on GP, we aren't the accountants of these console companies so why would we care?
Reporting on MAU stats is very misleading. Other companies publish units sold, MS cannot or will not due to Game Pass. We all know that their prior startegies have not panned out so now they have to actually sell games on other consoles. In any case, SoT is doing impressive preorders on PS5 and will very likely motivate Satya to release more games other than the four indicated games on their competitor's consoles. Take note Phil is radio silent....
40 Mil across Stream, Windows 10, and Xbox. Healthy numbers for sure, but when PC is the biggest platform, I expected more. It’ll be interesting to see how it does on PlayStation. Very well could be double that player count in 6 months with PS too. It’s crazy for developers to skip the most popular platform, not sure why they’d want to, but they must have had their rea$ons.
Reasons are, saving you clicking through (damn do I hate these) -
Ease of Purchase
Ease of Access
They Stay with You
Lack of Clutter
Potential Discounts
Mine main one is potential discounts and lack of clutter, as i'm seriously running out of cupboard space. Discount wise meh, more or less a waiting game for me so don't think the extra $$$ justifies the ease of access such as the pre-loading.
I still think Sony and Microsoft are pushing this digital trend way to early. For Steam it works well because PC's usually have a couple TB of space and the files are smaller and are probably better compressed. But for consoles the game files are HUGE and take up more bandwidth and putting that on a 500gb HDD? after a while that will seem like nothing. Not to mention the discounts are much more substantial on steam then they are on console, on console that best you can get is a 50% discount and that is pretty rare, on steam you can get up to 90% and 50% discounts are pretty much everyday. I think the biggest bottleneck for digital on consoles is still down to three main issues ISP's,pricing and HDD space. If the world had google fiber type internet and consoles had 4TB Hardrives standard then I could see how that would be more practical, but as it stands the future is a ways off.
I just moved about a year ago. Having to transport my enormous movie and game collection was reason enough to go digital. Since that times have sold off 90% of my CDs, DVDs, Blurays and games.
Number one reason why I'll never go digital??I love the smell of freshly opened new game and with digital you don't
Only need 1 Reason not to go digital! I have 62 games on Steam and 10 on Origin and guess what? I cant sell any of them to get some of money back. All I can do is uninstall them while they sit in my library doing nothing.