PC Gamers ~ Does anyone buy physical anymore?

Reason I ask is because I am curious if new PC games still have DVD content that you can install directly to your PC or are you required to use steam/uplay to install the content? Examples: Far Cry 3 for Uplay and Wolfenstein New Order for Steam

I do. I bought Diablo 3 CE at launch

Havn't bought a physical pc game... since... I cant even remember. WOW:WOTLK CE maybe?

dont see any point... I can DL most games in 2 hours max (those are the large ones)

no

No, and I will never buy another game physically again on any platform.

Whats a disc drive?

I bought the Diablo 3 expansion at retail. That was the first retail PC game that I have purchased in years. It was sweet nostalgia at its finest. I even went to the old run-down Hastings for it.

Yes, when I buy games early physical is often cheaper. Like SoM costs €50 on Steam, but at my local store only SEK 350 ~= €38.

Since it Steamworks, it kind of becomes digital as soon as you have installed it though...

Ewww, Hastings.

Once in a while yeh. Mostly blizzard games, and EA games (Oddly enough the games that does not use steamworks).

Part of the reason is that both lizzard and EA tends to put absolute horrible prices on the Digital games, and often cheaper to buy them in a store (with the exception of when EA has thier sales on Origin).

But those are so rare occations that I hardly Count them (last ones being SC2 + HoTS and BF3.

Last physical PC game I purchased was a bundle of Bioshock & Oblivion. $3.

yeah I've moved on now. if I get a new pc build I may not even bother with an optical drive.

Pretty much all games now require some form of registration through an online service on PC so buying a retail copy is absolutely pointless (unless like Heil said you wanted a CE edition). I honestly don't remember the last PC game I bought retail. Probably TW empire? Think I got the CE version of that and wanted some of the (pointless) pre-order DLC.

The last PC game I bought at retail was Fallout 3 and that's because I really wanted the bobblehead Vault-Boy.

herms knelt to DRM since a long time ago.

Last game I bought physical was Starcraft 2 over 4 years ago, and only because Blizzard said digital copies would have to wait until 10AM before downloading. Before that, eh, the first witcher I think?

No point. You install them, some require Steam anyway, others still have forms of DRM defeating the purpose.

I gave up on buying physical for the PC a long time ago.

yeah but only collector's editions and steelbooks

Could be worse, they could have knelt to subscription fees.

Or a single company controlling our whole gaming experience.

Some require you to install from Steam etc., some have info on the disk. Pretty much all will at least require a Steam/Uplay/Origin account. I still buy physical if it's cheaper (which is more common than you may think).

I didn't even put a disc drive in my most recent build.

You can make backup disk copies of games with Steam, and if you use GOG all of that is DRM-free if that's what you need. Say for instance you want to install some games to a computer you have at some cabin in the woods without internet.

As for me personally, I don't do any of that stuff, and I buy all games digital because there's no real reason not to. I'm actually more inclined to buy digitally because of the bonus features, content, and prices that go along with it.

No....digital is the way to go....MS had it correct but console folks got all scared.

Not anymore .

One reason I left the pc side. I love collecting and consoles offer someone like me a better experience. That and the exclusives aren't there for me anymore.

Yes because physical is cheaper, Steam is expensive as hell on new games.

these were my thoughts too, I can buy any new game from Best Buy for 48$ and get a 10$ GC on top of that. so 38$? Anyway that will be the standard price for new game deals this black Friday I am certain

I still buy physical sometimes because of how ridiculously large some of the games are to download.

Only collector's editions.

i still buy physical. it tends to be cheaper. recently shadows of mordor: 50 quid on steam, 45 at gamestop. nuff said.

Last retail PC game I got was LotR BFME2 like 6 years ago, I still have it. It's the only reason I have an optical drive.

Motokid most pcs come preinstalled with windows I only buy physical.. Unless its xbla vvc or dl only

Bootable USB. You can download everything you need straight from Microsoft.

Most games still have retail copies, including collector's editions. However, I haven't bought anything non-digital for quite a few years. Nowadays with the internet speed and unlimited data available to many of us, there is simply little incentive to go for physical copies, when the digital copies are both more convenient (acquiring & storing) and vastly cheaper.

@Motokid6: Yeah I just download the latest drivers and software from the relevant websites once Windows is installed, since the stuff that comes on motherboard discs is usually outdated by the time you get it anyway.

Last PC game I bought that was on disk was Civ V... And before that, Dragon Age : Origins. I don't really see any point in buying physical versions to be honest.

I'm hardly a PC gamer anymore, but I solely buy digital.

Maybe one out of every 500 games?

Nope. Discs are slow to read from, they're noisy, are easily lost or damaged. My PC doesn't even have a disk drive installed...

Pre-load them on another USB. Also, never use the drivers that come on the CD's.

Haven't bought a physical PC game in years. Hell, you pretty don't even need a disk drive for anything at all.

Sometimes I see old PC games at sale from 1 to 5 euros and I buy'em. I still buy physical PC games if the price is inviting

I did buy StarCraft II and its expansion at retail.

Digital only blows.....

Yeah, I'd be scared of it on consoles, so it's scary considering how much Sony and MS are pushing for it.

Last time i bought a physical game was when The Burning Crusade was released.

That was 2007

Last retail game I bought was Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm.