Its why I stopped collecting and am now getting rid of most of my collection. Steam is one angle of blame, discs within nothing but the client on them, binned! But also DRM, sure you can get nocd patches for some, but half of them are dodgy. So its leave the disc in whilst the player goes beserk and rattles around the room, and the securom or some other vicous malware ruins your system from inside.

Thanks adaliabooks, I had completely forgotten that physical copies still exist :-D, and you just gave me an idea to finally get my Baldur's Gate classic saga without giving any money to Beamdog.

May your CDs don't scratch too fast!
And may the copy protection tolerate you, your computer and the increasing amount of scratches!

Amen!

My last boxed game was Skyrim, I typed the steam key browsed the manual in seconds then put the box away to never see it again. Boxes were cool when they had printed manuals with something to read and enjoy, not just a CD that carries a soon obsolete version of the game.

FYI, the Ultimate Collection is just a download code and soundtrack CD. No physical copies of the games are included. And it doesn't matter as they are all still a blast to play. Ended up just getting the digital copy from Origin on a sale for $5, heh. There are some color issues with the first C&C and Red Alert in Windows Vista/7, but seems to have been fixed in Windows 10. I don't think any of the games gave me problems in 10.

I picked up the Battlechest version of WarCrat 3 a few years back. Neither WC3 or Frozen Throne require a CD after installation. Same with Diable II and StarCraft I (Battlechests for those as well).

On topic, last physical release I got was Homeworld Cataclysm. Found it for $3 at a local Goodwill. I have a number of physical releases - picked up a number of cheap games on Amazon's Marketplace here and there, or at various thrift shops. I have a number of classics (though usually in the budget or value packaging) such as:

* Fallout Trilogy
* Fallout Anthology (for the mini-nuke - all Steam discs)
* Neverwinter Nights Diamond
* Neverwinter Nights 2 Platinum
* Baldur's Gate 4-in-1
* Icewind Dale 3-in-1
* Freedom Force and Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich
* Drakensang Collection

I have a few others (a couple of Maxis collections and a couple of GameFest bundles), but all in all a fairly modest collection. =)

Flynn

I prefer digital version but I do buy some physical games from time to time. In most cases I buy games that are not available in DD store like Myth Anthology etc.

I don't know when my last physical PC game purchase was made. Quite a few years. I did buy some console games about half a year ago. Have you tried contacting Daedalic to resolve this? Maybe they could give you a DRM-free code for the Steam one.

Way to go :)
I have more then 600 physical, and original, videogames, starting from MS-DOS era, mostly bought at the time the come out.

Downloads are nice, but boxes are a world apart.

I read that as "one of the nasty ones like Scrotum".

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That is all.

Personally I try to buy everything online now, even if it through steam. I brought GTAV from the shop, that was a mistake. Took basically 5-6 hours to install. Probably longer cause I kept forgetting to check if it needed the next CD. I rather just download everything now. So much quicker and easier.

I try to find some physical PC games in garage sales which reappeared currently, but it's hard to find games without Steam key, intrusive DRM or just interesting. I could back at home with dozen copies of The Sims if I was a diehard fan, they literally flooded the market...

Part of me very much agrees with this, but the other, a bit more twitchy part just likes to hoard the precious. I mean boxes.

I definitely agree with this. Over time, getting physical copies of items has become less desirable for me - likely due to space limitations in part, but also out of convenience. I even got rid of my optical drive for my computer as I was not using it anymore.

Just got Kane's Wrath. Been meaning to do it ever since it was released, but there was always an excuse getting in the way.