Diablo Iii Finally Dated, But Is Physical Or Digital The Way To Go?
We knew Diablo III couldn't be far off after Blizzard revealed it would ship the game without its PvP Arena mode
. That feature will be delivered sometime after launch in order to avoid delaying the game yet again when the core content -- which is what most people are interested in above all else -- is nearly done. It's so close to being finished, in fact, that there are only two months left to wait: Blizzard has today announced a May 15 release date for Diablo III.
WOW GoldThe wait for the game has been a long one, to put it mildly. Diablo II was released in mid-2000 and its lone expansion pack, Lord of Destruction, followed a year later. In the ensuing years a sequel was in development that looked a lot like its predecessor, but it ended up being canceled and Blizzard North was shut down. That resulted in the current decade-long wait for a Diablo sequel, though in the meantime numerous games like Torchlight and Titan Quest have tried to fill that void. And while it's remained highly anticipated even through this excruciating wait, Diablo III has been faced with a variety of controversies including its change in art direction, the always-online requirement, and the real-world money auction house.
I'm as excited as anyone for the game; Diablo II (with the accompaniment of Lord of Destruction) is probably my favorite game of all time, and the one I spent more time with than any other. Suffice it to say Diablo III is a day-one purchase for me. But with no idea of when it would be released, I had yet to give any consideration to how I would go about purchasing it.
The offer announced at last year's BlizzCon where you get a free digital copy of Diablo III with a one-year commitment to World of Warcraft is a really good deal... provided you're interested in playing WoW for an extended period of time. But I'm not especially inclined to play WoW at the moment, at least not until Mists of Pandaria is released, so I can rule that option out as I'm sure many people can and have. What got me thinking about this in the first place is the image above, which comes from the official blog post announcing the May 15 release. Battle.net is now offering the digital version of the game for pre-order and promises prospective buyers they'll be able to play immediately upon release. While that's nothing unusual for digital releases, Mass Effect 3 aside, there haven't been many games in recent memory where I felt I had to play as soon as humanly possible, making this option very enticing.
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Yet purchasing a digital copy of a game comes with certain caveats. It means not having anything to put on your shelf; no manuals or other goodies to flip through. With PC games it's a moot point, but it also means sacrificing the ability to trade, sell, or loan that game to someone else. On the other hand, a digital copy can be far more convenient. There's no need to look for a game disc or card, nor is there any reason to worry it will become scratched or broken.
It's a decision gamers were rarely faced with until this past decade. Choice is a good thing, don't get me wrong, but it also presents what can be a tricky decision. When purchasing PC games I always turn to Steam first, and failing that, I've bought a few through Origin. As I'll never have the option of selling old PC games I no longer want, there's little downside to going digital.
But Blizzard games have always remained the exception for me. Part of that is they aren't available through Steam, but there's also something I enjoy about owning a physical copy of a Blizzard game. As I've amassed a larger and larger digital collection, however, I see less point in collecting boxes and papers I won't bother to look at again a week after launch.
Where the digital-or-retail decision becomes especially difficult for me is when it comes to portable games. I purchased a PSP Go thinking it would be terrific to always have a bunch of my games with me, but it ran into serious issues by not having access to the entire PSP catalog (including, in some cases, new games released after the Go) on the PlayStation Store. With Vita that has been rectified; every retail game is available from PSN at a discounted price over the MSRP, although retail of course has the freedom to offer cheaper prices on those games. I expected to go digital-only with my Vita games, but the combination of expensive memory cards and better deals at retail have led to Lumines being the only one of my four Vita games I've bought from PSN. And that's just as well, as I'm not sure something like FIFA 12 is a game I'll want to hold onto long-term.
by: LISHA
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