PS4 Disc

[Iscah]

Have a look in the "game library" where you can re-download digital games you've purchased.

Putting the disc in the console does prompt it to install from (and always require) the disc, but when putting the registration code into the PS Store, it also gives you a digital download link.

I'd already deleted the trial and installed the disc, so I don't know if I could have saved a lot of re-downloading by never installing the disc version.

Having installed the digital version now, I never need the disc.

[Burningskull]

Have a look in the "game library" where you can re-download digital games you've purchased.

Putting the disc in the console does prompt it to install from (and always require) the disc, but when putting the registration code into the PS Store, it also gives you a digital download link.

I'd already deleted the trial and installed the disc, so I don't know if I could have saved a lot of re-downloading by never installing the disc version.

Having installed the digital version now, I never need the disc.

I've never bought a digital version of ARR, trial or otherwise. I've tried this a few times but each time I try there is not download option. It takes me to a purchase screen but says out of stock. Or at least the last time I tried this it did that.

[Iscah]

I've never bought a digital version of ARR, trial or otherwise. I've tried this a few times but each time I try there is not download option. It takes me to a purchase screen but says out of stock. Or at least the last time I tried this it did that.

I should have clarified: I downloaded the digital free trial originally, then bought a physical 'complete edition'.

When I first inserted the disc, it prompted me to delete the digital version, so I did that. Installing the disc didn't unlock the full version though - I had to put the code that came with the disc into PS Store to register it. When I did that, I noticed that it seemed to have given me a digital link to download the game - so I took out the disc, deleted the disc data, and was able to download the digital version of the game.

It's never required me to use the disc again, because I'm not actually playing the disc version. Either way it only gives you the base program, and you still have to download all the patches.

I think I got the link by typing in the code again, but it probably should have gone into the game library as well.

TL;DR: even if you haven't directly purchased a digital copy, you might still have one available to you.