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there is no "ship DVDs" to anywhere.
Even if there is a physical box for a game being sold that does not mean you will still not have to download the whole thing. Take the new Doom for example, it comes with 1 disc, which is just basically filled with none game data. You put the key code into steam and you start downloading.
The reason for this is because as you say, games are becoming larger and larger and the more discs there are, the more expensive it is to include physical media. There are no company out there that will burn discs for you and send you them.
If you were to somehow convince Valve to do this, expect to pay an extra 5 to 10 dollars per disc, plus shipping. Many of these large games would be running 4 to 15 discs or more per game and that would even be in a compressed setup.
So are you willing to pay at least another 25 to 75 dollars per game? I very much doubt that.
Forget about updates. Just think about game sizes. You'd need around 5 DVDs to install a 50 GB game (nominally more, but compression is luckily a thing still). Or you could use one BluRay. Which has the downside of costing more thanks to licensing and the fact the few gaming PCs actually have a BluRay reader.
im just saying that even if you had dvds delivered, you still need to update it.
And by the time you receive it it'll require an update, which you will have to PAY to get delivered home... By the time another update is needed.
I know pretty well how annoying updating on a slow connection can be. But physical delivery isn't the solution.
Exercising patience had proven to be a really useful ability over the years, personally.
You kidding? You're old enough to know that we, the "old guard" indeed did "much gaming" even before the broadband times.
But I get it, it's a lot easier to just go "LOL, loser" at people because they happen to have been born in a second world country.
That said...of course, it depends on what games you want to play. Maybe some smaller-sized substitutes may be of interest?
With regards to physical copies, Steam does all the stuff it does for so cheap because it doesn't ship physical copies. It'd be more expensive to publish physical copies en masse. And then it'd be even more expensive to make a disc-printing service just for custom orders.
A quick google and I found this thread,
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=489173
However, if you just search for something like "game on most discs ever" or similar I am sure you can find the answers.
So there's no reason why a modern 40GB game could not still come on DVDs in a box, with a lovely 200+ page manual. If you want to see a wonderful manual in digital form, go look at Sowrd of the Samurai....worth reading on its own. Falcon 4.0's manual was also famous for content and size as well. Both go well over and above what you need to know to play and win the game.
Ten floppies? Ten? More like, thirty-seven. And then suddenly you misplaced #23 and you were screwed....
That's right - didn't want to specify such a high number as I hinestly could not remember the game in question or the actual number!!!
Did you mean manuals? IF so, that's great as I really miss massive 200+ page manuals. I used to read them on the way home in the car, or at my grandparents' house on Boxing Day / New Years' Day when I was separated from my beloved new games.