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[umiedotre9]

Hello, i am old school i suppose and even though i am long time user of steam, i wish i could have had a box version of the games i own.
Its not necessarily about nostalgic feeling but more about actually owning a game and getting something in return.

Today, most games come with manuals in digital form. Well, i suppose thats great. But i have always the feeling that games before had printed manuals with other stuff boxed in it for the same price. And i am not talking about sales prices.

Anyway, as far as i see most new games have only boxes for special editions now. To me, i think we as gamers lost something really precious. Now everything is online and DRM is the norm.

Why did we PC gamers bought into that?

Seems like a rant but i really miss the old days with their boxed games. Looks pretty too on shelf. If i can, i try to get the boxed version.

Thanks for reading.

[michaelplzno]

I do really miss the feel of putting a cartridge in a game system and having it load up almost instantly.

[ThemsAllTook]

Unfortunately, this is another of those copied-directly-from-Reddit posts from a new user that's going to get spam links edited into it once it gets replies. I've preemptively removed this user's ability to do that.

[Schoq]

I'm so glad I'll never have to deal with optical media again

[michaelplzno]

I did hate the switch to CDs when it happened. I often say that DVD is the superior format but I keep getting all kinds of glitches when I try to play them. I would love it if you could buy a movie on a flash drive.

[Schoq]

DVD was a horrible format for movies though. Unskippable ugly menus and other forced ★multimedia★ style shit that already felt outdated at the time to anyone who had used a computer in the past 10 years. As a storage medium to succeed CDs it also felt like kind of a joke to only get about a 6x upgrade 20 years later.

[s0]

Big fan of boxing games personally, my favorite is "punched-out" on the "nintendo entertainment system"

[michaelplzno]

I'm a big fan of tetris which is the best boxing game.