Digital Games Make 3x As Much As Physical In US, Says Report

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SvennoJ said:

Perhaps it's time for a new meme like this but for physical media


Yet for PC it is on it's death bed. You can import a PC dvd version of Halo Wars 2 from the UK, yet for Mass Effect Andromeda all I can find is no disc / code in a box physical options. The only version with a dvd is not available. I guess without internet access your PC gaming is getting more and more limited nowadays.

Surely you almost always need Internet on a PC, but if your connection is slow, physical media are a good option whenever possible. Up until now I used digital download just when it had advantages largely outweighing the nuisance of slow download, for example for GOG gifts like System Shock 2, or GOG DRM-free versions of a few games I owned on physical media that worked well when I started them on Windows 2000, but the DRMs of which messed up drivers on XP and after that they didn't work at all as CDs and DVDs weren't detected anymore (so a system restore was needed also to install any other game or program from CD or DVD and to play those that required the media to be inserted), while on Win 7 they didn't work either, but luckily Win 7 prevented them from messing up the drivers.
I also think I'll use Steam to redeem the disc code and download an updated version of a game with the original DRM incompatible with XP or newer version of Windows and that alas hasn't a DRM-free version on GOG (but at least Steam keeps its own DRM up-to-date and not too annoying, unlike some shit like StarForce et similia).
OTOH I'm perfectly fine with my Internet speed for much smaller digital downloads on my tablet, and even smaller ones on my phone.