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.

[bearsboi]

on one hand yes because then I actually own it and could just use it whenever I wanted, but on the other hand no because I hate having so much junk around

[bonzille]

I really miss having the physical disk there is something pleasing about going into a shop and browsing through the games on the shelves and looking at which cover catches your eye.
Besides I personally love having a shelf full of game disks then arranging them by name,genre ect.
That's the one thing about digital download it feels like you don't actually own the game.
Ps you can't show off so much either when your mates can't see that shelf stacked with all the new games.

[BanOphobia My Struggle]

I miss the trade in option.

[Manny]

No I don’t miss discs. I would struggle to find a place to store them all. I like just being able to switch from game to game, without having to get up every time.

[Amuro0079]

No, I had OCD about video game discs. They drive me nuts.

[Incarnate]

I miss games being completed at launch, instead of buggy catastrophes.

But most of my discs are non-functional. So, no. I can't say I miss them.

[Ganger]

Once steam was released and we entered the digital age, I didn't miss them disc's once. But over the last couple of years I do miss them.

I realised how many rights as a gamer we have given up over the last 16 years, now eula's, ToS and a companies will can all be enforced. Plus we no longer have the right to resell or trade our games that we have bought.

But the downside to physical media, it was always in limited supply, not available in many parts of the world, discs could break or not work, having to add patches, the list goes on.

But digital is still great, it's allowed gaming to expand and content to be easy available like never before. Almost all gamers in the world now have access to games and content like never before.

[Bing Chilling]

i could see how people could like physical collections
it looks nice if you have a big enough collection.
and i guess you could trade/sell them
but they loose value so fast i don;t see it as a very reasonable point
and i didn't even trade games back 10-15 years ago.
none of my friend's parents would let them trade.
they knew so little that they'd just instantly assume their kid was getting scammed or somthing , i guess anyways, never actually asked but its a pretty reasonable assumption
i wouldn't want my kid trading something i bought for them if i didn't know much about the subject,i would also assumed they were getting scammed. lol



though i vastly prefer having my licences stored on a server available to download whenever i please.having a massive catalog to pick from at anytime on the steam (or whatever)
everyone basically has over 30k games just on steam to pick from at anytime they have internet
and some money.

i always hear that if steam went away so do all your games that aren't downloaded
and while sure, lets be real steam isn't going anywhere unless something drastic happens in the world, and at that point i think you'd have bigger issues to deal with.

in short i can see the value in a physical collection though im not into it personally.
vastly prefer digital.a

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

Agios O Baphomet님이 먼저 게시:

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.

Yes but on pc it doesn’t make sense because without a launcher you can’t play the games anyway and pirating is the reason for that one.You can buy games drm free tho which is much better in my opinion and you own the games

[Ganger]

Maybe at some point in the future we might even see a physical DVD revival (a bit like the vinyl revival that is taking place right now) that doesn't need digital platforms to work (who knows).

I say this because who on earth would of though records would of made a comeback. Crazy times we are living in people, young people want too collect like their parents and grandparents did as well.

[Gus the Crocodile]

God no. Take up space, can be lost or scratched, game cases are pretty universally ugly objects, finding and swapping discs to even load the game. Glad to have moved on.

[BanOphobia My Struggle]

Gus the Crocodile님이 먼저 게시:

God no. Take up space, can be lost or scratched, game cases are pretty universally ugly objects, finding and swapping discs to even load the game. Glad to have moved on.

Welcome to the WALL-E era of gaming.

[Plaid]

I enjoyed the trips to the store and bringing home a shiny new physical object.
Sometimes we'd make a day of it, grab some lunch and do other stuff.

Yeah, I miss it.

[BanOphobia My Struggle]

Plaid님이 먼저 게시:

I enjoyed the trips to the store and bringing home a shiny new physical object.
Sometimes we'd make a day of it, grab some lunch and do other stuff.

Yeah, I miss it.

Still do that for console games with the G/Kids. PC games we just get a voucher from the store. Shopping for PC is anti-climatic these days.

[Doctor Go-Go]

I prefer to have the hard copy. But the plus side is ... don't have jewel cases and big boxes cluttering up the place anymore.