Can't decide Macbook Pro 15 or Retina

Hello!
This is my first post here so excuse me if I'm doing anything wrong!
I'm going to buy my first Mac but I can't decide if I should buy a Macbook Pro 15 or a Retina.
I'm in college and I'm going to use it for FinalCut, Photoshop, Logic Pro and some Illustrator probably, but also for some gaming through bootcamp (Dragon Age, FM, Mass Effect, etc).
My actual computer is filled to the top and it's 500GB so that's a cons to Retina unless I chose the 512Gb but it would be even more expensive. Another problem is that if something happens to the Retina the repair is a lot more expensive due to the sofistication of the hardware.
And altough I really like Macbook Pro 15, buying it is like betting in the past.
Is the Retina really worth the extra money or is the Macbook Pro 15 an awesome machine that will be able to do everything that the Retina does?
So as you can see I'm a pretty unsure guy, so all your help is needed!
Thanks!

Well two years for an investment like this is not that many years.
The problem is that the 256GB of the Retina are really not enough and upgrading is too expensive. The solution had to be an external drive, but even that would not work due to the partition that I will have to create (I’m going to share it with a friend that works with Windows-exclusive software). The question is am I really going to need the resolution that the Retina offers? “Eventually all Macs will be retina, so that's something to bear in mind.” That’s the thing that “****** me off” because I don’t think that paying almost 3000€ is worth it, but buying the non-retina is betting in the past. So Vestan Pance the non-retina with those specs would only last 2 years maybe? Even with the 16Gb ram for now and hypothetically a flash storage?
I’m from Portugal and the refurbished section is not that popular here! But it would be a nice option!
So ds store in your opinion how many years would last the non-retina setup? And do you really think it would be equal to the Retina?
I will have that in mind, noondaywitch. Thanks!
Thanks to all of you and sorry for the long text!

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