Who else loves physical disks more than digital copy of game?

Me, but mostly because of my crappy bandwidth cap.

Good game covers and things like manuals are fun to collect (hoard).

You have a better chance to resell physical disks than digital copies.

Me when i was 12 :P

You can always backup your digital copy to disk, and if you have a decent printer you can even have original game covers. TL;DR: if digital is cheaper than retail, buy digital, else retail. (btw my friend is kinda crazy, he doesnt even buy good humblebundle (thq,deepsilver,etc.) because its not a disk copy O.o)

I used to be that way but not anymore. In the old days when you got a huge box, with a good thick manual and sometimes even large nice maps and shit, then sure, I'd take that over a digital copy anyday. Nowadays though the games mostly comes in regular DVD-cases without fluff so I don't see the point anymore.

Not me.

I'm into minimalism and simplicity, so I like to get rid of physical clutter whenever possible. I'm all for digital copies because I don't have to keep rather useless disks lying around in a closet or on a shelf anywhere.

I love the new game smell.

Well me as I will always keep in mind things that COULD happen :P. Like steam gets closed, account hacked, lost the passwort and can't reset it, steam is down (ddosed or whatever) and you can't play because of that. Things like that. But the steam sales ... urgh ;).

If I could get them for the same price as digital, I'd prefer physical disks all day long. However, that is very, very rarely the case.

Depends because the only physical copies I remember having were CoD 2(which was like 6 install discs), WoW (which was another few discs, the original), Guild Wars (I believe it was a couple of discs but not certain, still have it somewhere). I got CoD:WaW from buying my old GPU and thankfully that was only 1 disc.

I've had more games but those are the ones with multiple install discs that comes to mind. I'm not a big fan of physical copies just because I like the steam library and if I want to install it I just press a button, and thankfully I have unlimited bandwidth.

I avoid buying digital copies whenever possible. The exceptions are if the game isn't available as a physical copy or is a game I want and is at a ridiculously good price. I do bend the rules a bit more for games that are pc only though, pc discs just don't feel as collectible as console discs.

I definitely prefer game disks, especially when it's a game that I'm really excited about. In the same way, I prefer Ubisoft's method of downloading an installer and letting you do the dirty work to Steam dumping a set of files on your hard drive, even if Steam's method is a lot more convenient. However, most of the time it's way too impractical to get a physical copy, so I pretty much only get disks when it's a gift.

I prefer having a physical copy.. However it has been a while since I have done that for PC. Mainly due to the deals you get from various web sites,steam,ect.

Last game I got a physical copy of? Diablo 3 Collectors edition. Would have been SC2 HOTS expansion Collectors edition but unfortunately it sold out in the area I lived in so I bought the digital one.. So I saved some money doing that but I am kinda sad that I did not get the box. Other than those games.. its been long enough that I do not remember what game I got a physical copy of. ( that is non console ) I almost want to say Bioshock. ( pre-ordered ) ...

I don't give a shit, I'm not a collectioner

i like having physical stuff most times, but had i physical stuff of my entire library i wouldnt know where to put it all, and less of a chance it would even work xD

I would have buying physical disks rather than digital copies if they were cheap in my country. Im not saying as cheap as digital copies because it wont make sense. Heck, I didnt even bought games back then because they were so expensive - now after being exposed to the cheap digital copies - I buy any game I love.

There's plenty of dust in here already, no need for more things collecting it.

clutter.

Disks scratch and no publisher has ever, to the best of my knowledge, let you send in a scratched disc and replaced it with a working copy. It's in their best interests to tell you to just buy another one.

Recognize my avatar? It's from the Rockband games. There was actually an issue with Rockband 3 where the first batch had a bad pressing. The game would work for a couple weeks and then, without any physical damage to the disc, it would just quit. It happened to a lot of people, but when I took it back to GameStop (yes, I know, my first mistake right there) the guy told me that they actually got a memo about the bad pressing, and to not allow returns, hoping parents would just buy another one. It wasn't widely covered because it wasn't a very popular game. If they pulled this with a Call of Duty or Madden game, you would have heard about it. I got it replaced — by convincing a store with a better return policy that I'd bought it there. No receipt? Even trade. All I wanted.

I have shit for Internet compared to some of you — 3MBit DSL (256KBit up). 5-10GB game, downloads overnight. I have a big hard drive (yeah, yeah, that's what she said). It's getting full... but I have an even bigger secondary hard drive that can fully back up the first one four times over if it were empty, so I can back up a game and then delete the local files, if I need to save space.

I prefer digital because I can download from anywhere, as many times as I want. There's no rule that says, once you download a game five times, that's it, you must buy it again.

If you want to collect, you can buy blank DVD or Blu-ray cases. Get a color laser printer. Get a Blu-ray burner. Back up the game, print you a label and a sleeve, there's your physical copy. If you're good with Photoshop you can even take out the barcode and the legalese, and replace them with more screenshots, maybe even some of your own. Maybe replace the text with some of your own as well. Make it YOUR game. (I say Blu-ray because many games are too big for a DVD-R. If they're not, by all means use the cheaper media. Doesn't matter what it is when you slap a label on it.)

be eco, save planet - use steam :)

If you like paying 50-60$ for each game no problem.. you can still get those Physical Disks for most big games.