Do you miss buying new PC games on disc

[Seax]

I miss it, you can only buy disc games on Amazon now and they just have a code to activate on steam. The old games you can get used on disc and sometimes new.

[Z]

Yes and No

[HeartoftheTiger]

Messaggio originale di Killroy was here:

No cause i don't own a dvd drive and really no one sells them any more and if they do they are really cheap made. Dvd burners went the way of VHS and cassettes.

If you really want a DVD drive, go to a local independent PC repair shop. Nothing from retail chains, but an actual independent “Started-out-of-a-garage-style” repair place. The one I go to always has some derelict laptops and desktops that still have certain viable components like DVD drives.

Messaggio originale di Spawn of Totoro:

I miss the nice manuals and other goodies (back when they were quality, eg: Ultima's map was on a cloth/canvas and not made of paper), but that is about it.

I've thrown so many game in the trash over my life, it feels good to not have to clear out my library to make room for more games.

I don't regret going digital with them.

I still got some discs to some games I remember fondly. Back in the Win98 days that GoG is still not able to get released. But what I miss is the swag: those yearly catalogues and registration cards (with some, they even mail you a newsletter), a printed manual, designed to look like it came from in-universe somehow. Like a flight manual with written annotations from characters in the game. Maybe some maps and blueprints. Real immersive stuff that a PDF just cannot compare to.

[ARGH!!]

I can still install Half Life from disc in it's original form. I can install GTA San Andreas and have all the songs that were removed by Steam.

[ARGH!!]

Messaggio originale di AmsterdamHeavy:

Then add in reinstalling something like Unreal Tourney 2004, which was 7 DVDs, or Cds, I forget.
Then add in misplacing one of those discs, in another case for example.

1 DVD.

[JDumbz]

I miss them tbh for collection use.

So far I have all the Sims, RCT, and a few other games on Disk still and use them for display pretty much.

Other than that not really, it's much more convenient now.

[alicerinz]

No, lol. You always had to worry about scratches and stuff. It was nothing but a hassle

[HALO_run]

Messaggio originale di HeartoftheTiger:

Messaggio originale di Killroy was here:

No cause i don't own a dvd drive and really no one sells them any more and if they do they are really cheap made. Dvd burners went the way of VHS and cassettes.

If you really want a DVD drive, go to a local independent PC repair shop. Nothing from retail chains, but an actual independent “Started-out-of-a-garage-style” repair place. The one I go to always has some derelict laptops and desktops that still have certain viable components like DVD drives.

Messaggio originale di Spawn of Totoro:

I miss the nice manuals and other goodies (back when they were quality, eg: Ultima's map was on a cloth/canvas and not made of paper), but that is about it.

I've thrown so many game in the trash over my life, it feels good to not have to clear out my library to make room for more games.

I don't regret going digital with them.

I still got some discs to some games I remember fondly. Back in the Win98 days that GoG is still not able to get released. But what I miss is the swag: those yearly catalogues and registration cards (with some, they even mail you a newsletter), a printed manual, designed to look like it came from in-universe somehow. Like a flight manual with written annotations from characters in the game. Maybe some maps and blueprints. Real immersive stuff that a PDF just cannot compare to.

i'd use ebay for DVD drives,blu rar

i do miss to a point tho i still use discs, because a lot of game an't even on steam,
yet back in the day, before steam became, what it is to day, you could get any game on disc.

much like all the games that i happen to have, and steam doesn't

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

No, digital is way more convenient.

[09]

Progress my a**. Wake up!
"Old days" your choice of nouns, =
a manual, a copy of an install routine for said 'game' or workware.
A cardboard box with label sometimes good to rebate part of the $$$ spent.
A real live business hours tech support effort.

Today is corpocracy/corruption.
Towit:
Pay a host to allocate a TEMPORARY permission to run a game for MORE $$$ that even MSFltSim cost. New CFS1 = 30.00 US and MSFS was more.
Download a digital copy from said 'host'.
and play.

Gee but I don't feel the 'host' has ever treated me as a 'guest'.
DRM for lunch anyone.

Semper Fidelis - be the change this world needs.

[HOT DOG]

The thing that replaces box games are collectors editions or other collectible merchandise that you pay thru the teeth for.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

I've bought very few PC games, and a few of them were on floppy disk, rather than "disc", so...

On the other hand I guess it's nice to have physical copies of stuff one can plug-and-play as well as swap in and out of one's system more easily than having to handle installations and file copying and save file backups/transfers.

[SpaceyMatt]

Messaggio originale di Jej:

I do. Especially when retail copies came with goodies such as maps.

Even with moving out multiple times the ammount of space they take is next to non-existent when using a multiple disc carrier.

Also, even though a few of my discs suffer from bitrot (mainly because I live in a humid area) I made multiple backups of my discs. Still, I'd much rather have hard copies of my game than for the games to be in a server that I won't be able to access it if it goes down or my internet connection does.

Plus, I can always borrow the games to other people which is something I can't do with Steam.

Maps? HL2 preorders came with a TSirt - I still have it too!! xD

[Meneluma]

I don't, my memories of PC games on disks weren't as good as console games on disk, given you do needed to install while older gen consoles just let you insert the disk and play.
Also the few PC games on disk I remember also had authorization keys to either play the game, or play the mutiplayer part of it. Which is so lame.

I'd rather keep at it being digital only on PC while stay physical only on my PS4.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Messaggio originale di Captain Yorshka:

I don't, my memories of PC games on disks weren't as good as console games on disk, given you do needed to install while older gen consoles just let you insert the disk and play.

Yeah, this is one factor that makes games on disk less of a cool thing for PC.

In a way, PC games were always "digital", it's just that they had delivery media by which one installed the game.

[Jej]

Messaggio originale di BigPony:

Maps? HL2 preorders came with a TSirt - I still have it too!! xD

Pretty much every Rockstar Games...uhm...game had a physical map and a damn good manual to boot. The manual was more of a gag than an actual manual and I love it.

Even better if the game requires you to pick up the map for references like the Hidden Car sub-missions in GTA:IV as all you get is a photo and a street name so you had to look up on the actual map.

Some Elder Scrolls games also had maps. I still need to frame my Cyrodiil one.