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Posted October 01, 2017
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I'm guessing as this is a community for a digital storefront that I'll be in the minority here; but does anyone else collect physical games.

I've been collecting physical games for a while now; my Sega Saturn and Dreamcast collections are small but fun looks back to my teen years, while my current PS Vita collection is becoming something I genuinely have a passion for. I also casually collect for PS3 and PS3 though my collections are all curated collections. I don't buy games just to have them, I buy games I actually want to play.

Recently I relented and started to use GOG more because there where games I missed out on. I still hate digital only games, but with GOG I get a DRM free game, so I can literally write it to disc or put it on an SD card, print off some cover art, and have my games physically represented on my shelf. I can't do that with PSN, Origin, or Steam and I resent paying for games that have DRM where a company can effectively take my games away if they decide they want to... and it's happened to me before.

My PSN account was hacked and someone bought a FIFA game at £54.99 digitally. I would never do that, I don't like football, I don't buy digitally, I certainly wouldn't buy a game that has the shelf life of a pint of fucking milk at full price. So I called Sony, told them I never bought this game and haven't downloaded it and they treated me like a goddamn criminal. So I called my bank and ordered a charge-back. Sony didn't like this and banned me... I don't care, all my games are physical so I just set up a new account. But imagine if they where digital. I currently have 106 games across PS3, PS4, and PS Vita... at the time, I probably only had half that, but still that's a lot of games. Even at only £30 per game and 50 games, I'd be looking at £1,500 worth of games. Currently my playstation collection is easily worth £3000-4000. I would have to be an absolute moron to let Sony have the power to reclaim that collection whenever they want.

This is why, while I prefer physical media, I like GOG... I buy a game and it's mine. I have a file that they cannot take away. I could copy that file and give it away to 50 people and there's nothing they could do to stop me. They trust me to respect their licence laws and respect my property rights. They don't lock my games behind DRM and treat me like a criminal before I've even done something wrong, and that gets them my respect.

Still, I do still love to collect physical games and I wonder, who else shares that passion here.
Posted October 01, 2017
I used 2 collect physical games & still do 2 an extent actually, just much less cos of space constraint. Now my games collections r mostly digital copies but like u, i prefer FULL rights over them rather than just owning a license 2 play them. That's y i also prefer get my games over here on GOG where i no need 2 worry if a game has DRM & all those those other 'must hv an active internet connections @ all times during game play' crap.

I 1 2 play my games @ a time & place of my convenience, meaning no 1 shd care whether i got internet or not in order 2 play the game. But unfortunately seems many current games r starting 2 go this route which i feel is pretty much like DRM as they hv restriction on when u can play the game, as in if u do not hv an internet connection then u can 4get abt playing it.

While i can uds some games need 2 connect 2 servers 2 play, 4 those single player games i dun c a need 4 games 2 require internet connection @ all. However, i'm ok if they require internet connection 4 purpose such as when 1 need 2 play multi-player but not 4 single-player.
Posted October 01, 2017
I still collect physical games, what you can find in Charity shops today is so good, what people give to them is amazing. I once went in to one & the manager asked Me to look at something that they had given to them. It was a fully boxed NES, that hadn't even been used ever, never even been wired up to a plug & was still in all its wrapping, not a speck of dust anywhere, my face lit up like I was a kid all over again.

Told her to put it on Ebay, never did ask what they got for it.

Like in the pic but in mint condition
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Posted October 01, 2017
Newer AAA games in a few years will become so large (100Gb+) that many capped internet users will have to buy physical games as long as the patch is reasonably small. Many people I know have capped mobile internet at about 30Gb a month, so they only buy digital games that are less than 5Gb. If they want to play a new AAA title game like Shadow of Mordor (45Gb), then they buy the physical PS3 version and will only have to download a much smaller patch. Physical games will be making a comeback in the future.
Posted October 01, 2017
The last physical copy of a game I bought was Dungeon Siege II Deluxe Edition in perfect condition. Laid it on the shelf, probably never going to play it.
Posted October 01, 2017
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TornadoCreator: I would have to be an absolute moron to let Sony have the power to reclaim that collection whenever they want.
Yet another reason why piracy is so big.

I have a number of external hard drives in my offsite office. Anytime I download something, be it purchased or pirated or whatever, it gets saved to one of those hard drives so in theory I'll never lose it.
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Galamid: The last physical copy of a game I bought was Dungeon Siege II Deluxe Edition in perfect condition. Laid it on the shelf, probably never going to play it.
I paid a buck for the first one at a local dollar store. :)
Post edited October 01, 2017 by drmike
Posted October 01, 2017
Used to. Sold a lot on. Got to the stage where anything recent just had the steam client or key. All the quality had gone from boxes/extras. Not worth paying to have moved each time I move. Also I had noticed "charity" shops and boot fairs and such like was getting really expensive.
Posted October 01, 2017
I have way to many physical games, over 1000 on C64 in the Twin Jewel cases, around 400 games on Atari ST, 300 on Amstrad CPC, 250 on Amiga, 200 on PS3 and around 60 on BBC Micro. I do have quite a few PC games also, noty a massive amount in big box, just stuff I REALLY wanted like Nocture, Klingon Honor Guard, Blade Runner, titles I feel are worth having, I do have around 200 in the DVD cases and they fit in 1 large box.

Amiga & ST are the ones that take up way to much space as a lot of the games were single disc but instead of using a twin jewel case or the smaller card boxes like they used on C64 they put everything in the large A4 sized boxes.

I have stopped getting stuff for the C64 now with having so much stuff, same goes for Amiga & ST, only picking stuff up I really want given space restrictions, I also have the CF hard drive in my A1200 and the Ultra Satan attached to my STe so a good selection of digital titles on them.
Posted October 02, 2017
Dont really collect, have about 20 or 30 games on DVD (with the usual DVD cases), with a good bunch of them requiring Steam or Origin anyway, so they mostly catch dust. Also, i do collect Movies/CDs/LPs so... games just take up too much space for me.

I have kept a few original boxes that i just couldn't throw away though. Myst, The 7th Guest/11th Hour Marathon Trilogy and Unreal Tournament for example. Loved the boxes when there was actual effort put into them.
Posted October 02, 2017
I've a number of older ones and a very few collectors editions of newer games in physical format. But I've pretty much moved completely to digital given the fact that there's absolutely no effort put into physical game copies anymore (as noted, it's often just a code to redeem on-line anyway for regular editions) other than the very pricey collector's editions. And I'm rarely motivated enough to shell out that kind of money for a single game.
Posted October 02, 2017
I do for my consoles, ranging from my Atari 2600 to my PS3. All my PS1, PS2, PS3 and Genesis/Sega CD games are still in the original cases with the manuals. My DS and Advanced games I just have the actual games. Sadly pretty much all of my physical games for the PC are gone, having been lost in moves. The only one I still have is Command & Conquer: The First Decade.
Posted October 02, 2017
Yup. I still prefer physical copy.

My only copy of the Witcher III is on the PS4 - I will eventually get a GoG copy, too as I did with the first two. I own the Witcher II on Xbox 360 and the original red box of the Witcher on PC and the black box Enhanced Edition on PC, too to go along with my GoG copies.

The DRM-Free and physical backups are why I am a huge GOG fan.

The awesome art they had, being able to look at your shelf and have a game catch your eye that you forgot about and putting it in to play.

I like physical publications too. Picking up a periodical and flipping the pages, checking out the pictures and design, layout pull quotes to grab attention, fact boxes.

We are a dying breed.
Posted October 02, 2017
I love finding and collecting older and hard to find games with actual data :P Recently I just found DOW Soulstorm to complete my DOW collection and the big box Linux version of Myth 2.

Newer computer games I just buy digital since the new discs usually don't even have data and are just Steam codes. I still go with physical console games although they usually have a large day one patch :P
Posted October 02, 2017
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TornadoCreator: This is why, while I prefer physical media, I like GOG... I buy a game and it's mine. I have a file that they cannot take away. I could copy that file and give it away to 50 people and there's nothing they could do to stop me.
That's not always true with physical media games. I have physical copies of Painkiller and Painkiller: Battle out of Hell. They will not work on Windows 10 because they are infested with the SecuROM DRM, and Microsoft programmed Windows 10 to forbid SecuROM from starting. I have a whole bunch other physical media games that don't work for the same reason.

For Painkiller and Battle out of Hell, I was able to find a crack to bypass SecuROM, but if I use it, then it patches the game to an unofficial patch number, which makes my previous saved games unrecognizable by the game's interface and therefore unusable. Therefore, I had to re-buy those games here on GOG because that is the only way that I could both play them on Windows 10 and use my old saved games too.

So they (in this case, Microsoft) have indeed effectively taken my games away by making my game discs into useless junk that cannot be played on modern systems.
Post edited October 02, 2017 by Ancient-Red-Dragon
Posted October 02, 2017
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: that is the only way that I could both play them on Windows 10 and use my old saved games too.
You are aware that you can actually use SecuROM on Windows 10, right? You do need to sign the driver yourself, but it can be done. Feel free to ask if you want more info.
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