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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by detaro on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @06:43AM (#16366391)
funnily enough, sometimes the cardboard box is cheaper than buying the digital download.

I assume a motivations of it are a) to have presence next to console games and b) gift-giving? If there were at least the basic versions of the games on the disc, you could add c) people with slow internet to the equation, but that seems less and less common.

Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by vsl on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @07:19AM (#16366554)
Around here (Central Europe), it’s ALWAYS the case. Steam has Europe-wide pricing, local stores’ normal prices are often 40% lower on launch day.