I hope they will offer the preorder bonus packs to those who also preordered the game physically. I usually don’t buy game digitally when they are available physically.
Hopefully the Ultimate edition ends up on disc too, my internet is relatively slow, and it would take approximately 40-60 Hours to download if it is 40 Gigs.
I would love to have a physical Ultimate Edition but I think Horizon 2 confirmed that too drive their digital sales no more physical CE are going to be forthcoming which to an owner of every other Forza CE is a right royal pain in the posterior and a massive disappointment. Especially as we seem to be paying more for a download when you would think that it would be shed loads cheaper for a digital copy vs hard copy but such is big business even in the hard times they will screw every penny they can from us gamers (Forza’s international exchange rate especially suck). Maybe if they had not covered Le Mans with miles and miles of Forza Motorsport advertising we the consumer might have got a lower price for our loyalty. Ce’st la vie but hey after I have paid my monies for the so called Ultimate Edition download and it takes less than a week to download and has none of the disasters that came with both Forza 5 and Horizon 2 could I just ask that if a car comes with special livery that said livery can be viewed on the car whilst in the garage. In Horizon 2 when I go to my many liveried Huracan I have 5 or 6 yellow cars and can only see the specially livery when I get in the car and leave my garage. More times than not I’m in a car I don’t want to be in so could we please make it that we can see every car in our garages liveries is that to much to ask as some liveries are viewable in the garage so why not all of them. But I look forward to the release and my ‘‘digital’’ copy which I can only hope and pray is never screwed by hackers or machine problems but most of all those vinyl’s and liveries I made in F5 and H2 will be coming with me with hopefully F4 being available to play on my XBone really, really soon so it’s not all bad news.
I used to be very against digital copies of games, mostly because once a game company takes their server offline you can no longer play the game you bought. however, one thing I realized about a year ago is that most of the games I bought years ago I no longer play and are just sitting on the shelf taking up space and collecting dust. so for me it makes more sense to purchase a digital copy knowing that these servers are going to be running for a good 6-8 years and by then i would have moved on to something else.
now this is just my opinion and my personal experience and is in no way intended to get anyone to change their mind. but i wrote this to show that if someone as stubborn as i am can finally adopt digital downloads, then i guess its officially the new age of gaming lol.
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in the expert zone twitch stream if you go to 1 hour 33 min he says that the physical version will only come as a tenth anniversary edition (standard game) hopefully you can buy VIP membership from the marketplace like FH2.
Disks are going away you just don’t need them anymore why would they cut into their profits when they don’t need to. When was the last time you bought a cd? What’s the difference
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Last September. The Shabazz Palaces CD came out, and the local store had it for $6.99. I got it and enjoyed reading the track listing, which makes sense of the album. But since then…
No. All the rest of my music went straight to my phone and to my HDD for archives.
When is the last time I bought a CD? about 2 weeks ago , bought the new Hailstorm album. a week or so before that, I had purchased the Furious7 soundtrack. And today, I am going out to buy In This Moment’s new album. Difference is, I am one of those who still care more about physical discs than all this digital stuff.
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I bought FH2 on launch day on a disc so I could feel happy about having a “tangible” game, but I pre-ordered FM6 digitally.
Better question: why would I pay the same price plus tax for the digital version when I can pull up Amazon.com, order the game for the same retail price you’re paying for a digital copy, not get charged for tax, install without dragging down my bandwidth, and play it on release day while having a tangible item to represent my purchase … again, at the same price you paid to have nothing in hand?
In the end, it’s all a matter of personal preference. That’s the difference.
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some of us do get taxed on amazon, depends on the state.
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About a week or so ago. I buy CDs and Vinyl records, especially CDs relatively often.
People still prefer CD’s. You can sell the copy back if you don’t like it or after you’re done with it. With digital all you can do if you dont want it anymore is just uninstall and remove files. CD’s are generally cheaper too (unless theres a XB gold deal on); compare prices for Fm5 for example in the Xbox Store and New copies on Amazon (The Shadow Edge explains it alot better.)
But yes there are benefits to going digital so it’s all a matter of personal preference. The digital games I have are Forza 5 GOTY and NFS Rivals Complete Edition and I only bought those as there was a deal going on and the prices were competitive or much less than Amazons equivalent
My internet comes from a moblie hotspot. I pay $7.50 a GB . At 40+ GB per game do the math. It matters a whole lot to me.
Yeah. People often forget that there isn’t high speed internet available in all parts of the world and their first-world blindness leads them to assumptions that everything is just a minute away from going completely digital.
You better believe one of the reasons Microsoft cut its plan to go always online wasn’t just because of the DRM gripes, but because their sales would tank worldwide as a result of inaccessibility.
The funny thing is that the “First World Blindness” also applies to the first world countries. I don’t want to get off topic into a lesson/debate about the state of the internet in the U.S. but the numbers for average speeds are very inaccurate. As an example I’m within a half a mile of neighborhoods that have multiple high speed options. They have cable, u-verse, wifi from the electric company and now they have access to 1gb municipal fiber. I can look out my window and see those houses yet my DSL speed has dropped from 6mbps to 1.5mbps since '10 due to increasing competition that’s causing AT&T to downsize their infrastructure or not maintain problems leaving our neighborhood pretty much with a “Sorry about your luck”. Things like that are happening everywhere. Take the 10 closest houses in the previously mentioned neighborhood, say they all have the 100mb plan, then take the 10 houses on my side who have 1.5mpbs. Do the average and it shows a 50mb average. Those who already had plenty fast high speed keep getting great speed increases where those that had little to no option are getting reduced to nothing.
Sorry about that rant there. Physical copies aren’t a preference, it’s a necessity for me and I would assume plenty others. Where I live, Gamestops routinely still hold midnight release events because so many people flock to the physical copies. It’s tough to swallow when developers assume all is well in terms of bandwidth and take a dump on people who buy physical editions. Not to mention a steel cased FM6 LCE would go quite well with my FM4/FM5 LCEs. If this was any other game I’d likely just skip it as I have other games from developers with similar mindsets.
To answer the title’s question, I personally think that due to all of the extras and bonuses in the Ultimate edition, that yeah, its pretty ultimate!
I get what most of you are saying I’m just pointing out that the (disks) are going away. I Don’t care either way but if they had both I would still buy the digital copy it’s less work for my Xbox no disk to spin for hours on in.
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Discs only go away if people stop buying them. It seems clear to me, there’s still a lot of people out there who prefer to have a disc copy, including myself.
Hell, I bought FM2 normal so I could play on day 1 and ordered the Limited Edition from Canada so I could have that too. I have all the Forzas still on my bookshelf, including the demo from Best Buy for the original.
In regards to the physical copy, I just pre-ordered my copy of FM6 at Gamestop and according to my receipt: it states that there will be a Day One Edition, much like FH2. And yes, I too am one of those who prefer physical copies over digital.