Why do PC gamers hate physical?

cracked or non-cracked. they don't have resell value. May as well just pirate everything.

a decent power supply is also required

maybe if they explicitly charged more for it as like a collector's edition to recoup the investment

A great deal of PC land is stuck in the technological past

I will get a physical collectors edition if I really like the game and it's reasonably priced. More games need a middle ground between normal $60 physical game and $500 collector's edition with big fucking statue. Indie games with physical collector's editions are usually perfect, like Undertale or Hollow Knight

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I would seriously just buy a blu ray drive if physical games made a comeback on PC that way. I love collecting physical but it's basically been completely phased out this gen.

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Try to find this game on Steam. You see the problem here? You can easily find this for ps3/360 through the secondhand market.

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>tfw I got it on steam before the purge

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Jesus, the only way to get this is to pirate it basically.

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$22 is less than what either KOTOR goes for in brick n' mortar on Xbox.

Huh didn’t know it had a physical release, thanks user.

Because physical media in general is dead.

>cnet.com/news/samsung-to-stop-making-4k-blu-ray-players-report-says/

Gay

Nigger

>no posters, manuals or even cool design on boxes (like blizzard games for example)
>Unless you pay 40niggerskins extra
If i wanted just the disc and the case i can easily burn the shit on the disc and print the cover for the case.
A pile of plastic serves no purpose especially since nobody puts any effort into making it lucrative

PC has had one form of DRM after another for decades so they're used to having no rights. I honestly can't rememeber the last time the majority of PC releases just played a physical game, no questions asked. It was probably the 80s.

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So if Honda and Volkswagen stopped making cars, that would mean personal transportation is dead?

If toyota did (the car industry equivalent of samsung) then probably yes.

kek

Bluray is an attempt at making the past (DVDs) current

No it isn't, that game is cheap and I'm pretty sure it's only $10 on xbone.

Physical media has resale value because there are a limited number of copies in circulation. The point of digital distribution is to remove this artificial limitation and place power in the distributor rather than the free market which can demand upward of $200 for a game.

>4K Blu-Ray
No shit. A 4K Bluray disc will cost more than an entire streaming service for a month on top of the player whch costs hundreds.

There may come a day when things like Microsoft's Game Pass devalues games like streaming had movies, but it's not today.

But what happens when the distributor no longer wants to distribute the fuckin thing

Then have both physical and digital for all games. That's not the reality for PC.

based team cherry for habing physical HK

I'll believe it if the Playstation 5 is digital only. And there will still be a collector's market. It will just become more expensive and harder to be a collectorfag, as all physical games end up distributed through scalper-suppliers like Limited Run Games. Well, if console manufacturers allow USB optical drive add-ons when they go full digital, anyways.

People share pirated copies.

When everything is digital only thats when ill stop playing modern vidya and just go through the backlog

Are you too lazy to even read the fucking headline? They’re ending production of ALL blu-ray players.

Same thing. Bluray disc cost more than a streaming service on top of the player.

and then we get another nintendo shutting down everything even though they failed to provide the product

How tf do u niggas install your windows without a disc

newfag

Ease of piracy > physical collection.

Your physical collection can burn down and your hard drives could die, but as long as the game is archived somewhere you can download it at any time. I "own" 10,000+ games at my fingertips through torrent/DDL websites.

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With a USB flash drive

Bootable USB media

Because why would I want to get a ride to the store/wait for shipping when I can download the game immediately?

But you need windows to read usbs

The BIOS in any PC made after 2004 can read USB drives directly.

Finally you zoomers will get to experience the pain of being a boomer.

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the only situation in which physical media are attractive are in the case of neat collector's editions that come with cool packaging and stuff like art books, extensive manuals, maps, figurines, etc.

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So you wrote all that to basically tell us you own no games. Great.

No you don’t, this isn’t the 90s.

You have got to be one of the biggest retards on Yea Forums

If I had a physical copy of every game I owned I wouldnt have the space for it. That shit ends up in the trash eventually or given away. Only collectors care about that shit.

Same. Either all digital or all streaming and I'm lights out. Only a fucking moron thinks the way of the future is owning less things as a consumer.

I didn't say Xbox One and explicitly was not talking about digital

But the number 1 spot will always be u bro dont worry

I have ~1 TB of games sitting on my hard drive right now (.iso files, not installed). I own more games than you.

The best way to get a physical release these days is to write your own blu-ray. Physical copies just stuck with a DVD and have left everything else to the downloader.

wait wait wait, it's not on steam anymore? i have it on my library, can i still download it?

>PCfags will never know that new game smell

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But you really don't. I can download every single one of those games tonight if I want to. I wouldn't then convince myself that I own those games. You're delusional.

You don't own them. You have access to them, but you'll never own them the way you can own a computer, car, house, or any other property.

Have you played them all?

I understand how computers work it makes me eternally smarter than you

Do people unironically still game on PC?
Jesus Christ what is this, 2006?
Console is king. Period.

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Physical format is old news, gramps, digital games by suscription is the real deal.

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If you see it in your library you can download it. Steam will discontinue games and remove them from the store but if you bought it you can still download it as long as your account exists.

No bro u dont want internal smarting you could die

t. Stadia shillbot

Tell me that when you are missing 5 out of every 6 shots

I have ownership of it. I can utilize and play it. Nobody can stop me from using it. I own it by definition.

A nigger could break into your house and steal your precious physical copies. But if a nigger stole my hard drive I'd only lose $100 and I could just download and own them again.

Do people unironically still game on console?

As long as you bought it before it got taken off you should be fine

Yeah, and I'm saying it's cheap. A quick search on gamestop showed it was only $5, and it's also on Xbox One whether you like it or not.

I don't think that works bro maybe if I had mistyped

>doesnt know about eternal bleeding

Yeah because the more disposable the media, the better. I don’t want to ever play/watch/listen to a piece of entertainment more than a single time, so I’m ok with consuming shit every day.

>sub-120 hz
>sub-1440p resolution
>no motion blur reduction
>having to pay extra to use the internet connection you already paid for
>"""king"""
the only one stuck in 2006 is you

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That's why I pirate my shit and delete it when I'm done.

You have officially beaten the user a few replies above as the biggest retard on Yea Forums

I can play single-player games on a CRT and still get all of that. Online games are dead no matter what since private servers no longer exist.

>he thought the post was unironic
The zoomer generation really is fucked.

Games by suscription != Cloud gaming

What are the best physical or big box games? Like visually or contents.

I forgot pic

Modern vidya is diposable.

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Bump

it just sucks
>jacked up prices due to import fees
>have to leave my house to get the game in the first place or have it shipped to my door and play even more than necessary
>clutter of DVD boxes
>having to use a DVD drive every time I want to play a game
no thank you
Even with consoles I don't bother with physical anymore, that shit is trash
>b-but you don't own anything
Honestly who gives a shit, I got a big pile of console games in my closet from my teenage years and I don't touch a single one nor do I plan to sell any.

USB, retard

Why do you have them then, just throw it away.

Pretty sure PC is where the biggest advocates and afficionados for physical copies of games are at home.

gamevaluenow.com/microsoft-xbox/star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic?gameid=741
gamevaluenow.com/microsoft-xbox/star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-ii-the-sith-lords?gameid=742
Unless you're buying new that's not true at all.

there's no point

Through the cloud you fucking luddite

Because I literally have no desire or room to have 400 pieces of media hogging up space.

Because most places that held a comprehensive collection of physical pc media where phased out and replaced with more console shit during the great drought of 2006-2010 (pc gaming is ded era). Those shops and their collections never recovered their clients as digital distro and steam specifically had pretty much replaced them.

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