When was the last time you bought a physical PC game?
When was the last time you bought a physical PC game?
PC
Never
Monopoly at an OfficeMax around 2013-2016, that's where I'd buy all my PC games. I remember them selling shit like Braid and Costume Quest towards the end.
physical PC game
Holy fuck that was so long ago.
Believe it or not, there are a very small handful of physical copies of Left4dead for PC. Tho all those cases just had a piece of paper with a key in it. I had one of those copies...
Elden Ring, but there's no actual disc inside.
Probably Little Nightmares 2 collector edition to scalp them.
They were at like 50$ on PS4 and I may or may not have sold them back at x3 the price on eBay.
I buy switch games physically
I was extremely butthurt as a kid because I ran over to GameStop to get into the l4d2 beta and it was a download code and I didn't have Internet
Bad Company 2. I remember it precisely because it was at the mall and it required a online key to play online that was in the box.
Oblivion I think
The last one I bought was Dark Souls 1.
Bought Stalker: Clear Sky in, I believe, 2013 or 2014. I remember the physical media section of my local supermarket was already tiny, maybe 4 or 5 shelves, each about a meter long. It had just a few games, the rest were movies on DVD and Blu-ray. Everything was on a discount.
Just a few months ago, i finally completed my entirely physical sims 3 collection (minus the katy perry shit, not my pic)
Unironically probably a wow expansion, maybe WoD? seems like the right vinage DvD players started to go.
A decade ago. I still have a ton of it though. All junk now.
2019
All junk now.
You can buy an external/usb DVD/CD drive for like $20, yuknow?
Battlefield 3, I don't remember if it had a disc inside the case or it was just a download code
download code
Why even bother?
bad company 2 and battlefield 3 came on multiple dvds. you needed the code to play online.
You get a box.
You get to fill up your recycling bin
Do data caps still exist?
They're the last real use case for shit like this unless you're a collector.
physical PC game
lmao let me think
I think I found Return of the King somewhere and grabbed it
collecting expansion boxes was nice...
ER but only because it was much cheaper than digital copy go figure.
Arkham City
starcraft 2
Some early Harry Potter game from Staples
I remember preordering it the week of the release but my Amazon order got delayed on release date so I ended up buying a key
Sucks
WoW legion, I loved it.
GTA V
The "physical" PC games I've ever bought were burned CD copies of cracked games. My country never got any chance to get a legit video games physical distribution service. Even nowadays, physical console games were imported from other countries instead of being sold by official retailers.
Steam was the closest we got to a legal video game store platform.
Portal 2
WotLK expansion. Also stole a physical copy of Skyrim from walmart before they started locking everything in cases.
Based.
When I was a kid I couldn't figure out how to get past the online key check on a pirated copy of Quake 4 so I went to a store that had it, cracked open the case and took a picture of the key with my cell phone
probably The Orange Box sometime in 2009.
2015
Wrath of the lich king
Took fucking hours to install it from like 4 or 5 CDs
Never fucking again
There was a CD version?
My copy of Burning Crusade came on a DVD so I figured CD's for games were just done by then.
Pokemon Scarlet in March of 2023
Wasteland II, and that was through kikestarter.
PC game
This, around 3 to 4 years ago. Back when I still cared about buying every 3ds game I wanted to have. Nowadays I'm planning to buy a 3ds to hack it the fuck out and inject every game I wanted to play.
Meh.
ESL can't read
That looks like a PC game to you?
6 months ago
2010
I'm retarded lol, I just realised he meant PC games, fuck. I blame the guy that mentioned Pokemon Scarlet. Anyway, a friend of mine gifted me most of his working PC games 4 years ago, so these.
He asked when you bought one, not when you were gifted one.
This doesn't count.
never, i had an elaborate scheme of trading disks between my friends and neighbors at the time
I know, I wanted to share that story since the last physical game I bought was 10+ years ago and I never played it so it's whatever. It's still the last time I was willing to hoard physical copies of PC games so the point is more or less the same.