I like books too, but having a digital version definitely has advantages, holidays, train rides... i can see the appeal. It would be great if there was a download code inside every book nowadays so we could choose. Have seen it with LPs a few times, not a bad idea.

As a person with digital and physical copies of the Pathfinder books, I can tell you the physical books are preferred. Not only for the speed at which you can go through to find the material you need, but rendering on a tablet can be slow as hell. Worse is when you run out of battery power, you can't read anymore.

Digital books are interesting, but I prefer physical when possible, unless space/weight becomes a concern or something similar. Besides the weight of the book and natural transition of turning pages is better than flicking a finger on a page or using the side buttons on a dedicated eReader. Plus many other issues that come up.

*Edit* So you already redeemed the Digital Versions... Great! :D I registered my WCIII on my big bro account that way... if I ever get Frozen Throne I'll do the same. Even with a StarCraft CD-Key you can get both StarCraft and BroodWar that way (We used the one that came with our Wings Of Liberty CE USB [Raynor's Dogtag] for his BNET account and I got mine with the Anthology version I bought as a replacement for my 1.0 SC Disk).

Our Last Physical PC game as of now is Legacy Of The Void Collector's Edition (We don't like "Digital Deluxe" products).

REDVWIN

For me, it's quite the opposite: I haven't bought a digital game since the last year's summer sale (and after that only few redeems from kickstarter or preorders) while I have bought a dozen of physical games.
Of course, none of them was released after 2010, so no Steam, no Origin, no Uplay inside.

There are still many gog games in my whishlist (my actual "official" whishlist is pretty poor in numbers, but there are more games I'm looking to), backups for the most part. There were few very interesting discounts from the last summer sale I could have jumped into, but there aren't my main priorities in the current state. Maybe (and surely) later.

But from my current mood, I'm searching mainly physical copies while it wasn't few years ago. Well I'm trading a backlog with another. ^^

My wish is that I will happen upon original Morrowind game CDs... It does not have to even be GOTY version - because I managed to lose not the expansion CDs but the main disc! :'(

My theory is there is a tonttu (tomte or gnome) that has read my Gary Larson books, seen his cartoon of "car key gnomes" and gotten ideas...

All new Morrowinds available come with Steam attached. As said, I've grudgingly accepted Steam as something positive for indies - but the original Morrowind never was buggy to my experience unlike Steam version that is liable to crashing, or music getting stuck or such like.

I actually prefer physical CDs with gaming booklets etc - but DA Inquisition convinced me that the corporate publishes hate the physical product.

For sixty pounds sterling - there was not even a game manual, which was an insult.

It turned into injury when after running four installation disks, it still took two or thee major patches (two hours of download time if not more) before the game could be considered at some sort of playable state.

I love that physical release even if I don't happen to play Hitman.

Last physical release I bought is Leisure Suit Larry Box Office Bust, and that's for myself (the Hitman collection my brother's), though.

I much prefer physical releases. However as many said before, physical games are just becoming Steam-encumbered and that kills the entire point of a physical release.

Why do I buy physical PC games?
Fallout 3 + UT 2004 -> 2€
ArmA II + ArmA + Operation Flashpoint GOTY -> 0.75€
Simcity 3000 World Edition + STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl -> 0.20€
Spore -> 1€

Aaaaaand because it's faster to install

Yep. I used to buy most of my games from Best Buy and the now-defunct GoGamer. Somewhere around 2007-08 most discs started coming with the Steam installers. I saw the trouble and got out before the monster got me. Quite a drought of PC gaming for a while until this site called GOG showed up.

Congrats for looting Warcraft 3 and its expansion and for being lucky with the code as well. :)

Sadly the physical games asre still needed, because lots of older games cannot be bought in digital form or their digital form is tweaked (like an HD remake).
In the las months gems like Oni, Army Men RTS, No One Lives Forever 1-2, Black&White and a few older FIFA episodes found their way to my shelf, since there was no other alternative to play them. I acknowledge that digital downloads are more comfortable, but being sentimental still love the feeling of physical copies too.

I've picked up a few used PC games on disc from fleamarkets in recent years, but I think the last time I bought a full-priced PC game on disc was about three years ago. The problem is, that's the last time I bought a full-priced game full stop.

I'd keep buying them on PC if they weren't leashed to Steam, Origin and UPlay, but seeing as my PC isn't particularly fast and I really don't give two shits about the 30fps vs. 60fps (and only have a 1080p TV and monitor, so 4K isn't relevant to me), I just buy most of my games on PS4 and Xbox One. I still have my PC for the odd indie downloadable and classic PC exclusive from GOG, and for the itches that my consoles can't scratch, GOG and the indie bundles pretty much do their job. Most of the AAA titles are Steam/UPlay/Origin-exclusive, but are also available on disc for consoles, and that's where I buy them.

Last significant non-bundle purchase from Steam was Final Fantasy 5 while it was on sale in March, before that Ryse in Jun 2015 for €8 + revenue from trading card sales.

Next major PC purchase will probably be Witcher 3. I'd been waiting for the version without the patch download requirement, and it seems to be here now, but seeing as Blood and WIne is out soon, I might as well just pick up the inevitable complete edition.

Funny thing is, I'd quite happily go back to PC-only if publishers would abandon this ridiculous policy of tethering their physical releases to Steam, but to be honest, they probably don't care. Money is money, whether I buy it for PC or console. But maybe the success of the physical release of Witcher 3 will encourage a rethink.

Nice thing about GTA V is none of the DVDs have copy protection. Just copy everything to a temp folder and install from the hard drive. Much faster for me than downloading 60+ GB over a very slow DSL connection (7 Mbps sucks in the modern gaming era *sigh*).

Oh, man. Oni rocks! I still have my PS2 copy. Played the crap out of it. How hard is it to get the PC version running on, say, Windows 7? Might need to hunt down a copy, heh.

Flynn

I got GTA 4 on DVD and because of the DRM I couldn't even get the damn thing installed.

Used to love buying games on disks, nice box, manual inside, good old installation process where you must change disks! also some installers (like red alert 2) were basically a piece of art.

Today i buy physical only if it is collectors edition and I really really need it.
Physical version means nothing when everything is tied to this horrible drm online services - they only save you bandwidth - till first 2 patches wich usually make you downloading whole game again...

I have yet to try it on Windows 7, because I kept Windows XP just for the older games, but there is a mod called Anniversary Edition that enables running the game on Windows 7 (or so they say on the forum). I bought my copy on ebay, from time to time a few version pops up there or in the bargain stores, I think you will have good luck finding a copy in these places.
And there are many other cool mods, like HD patch. That must have been quite a work.

And still hope the game will be here on GOG, just the rights might be lost in the many transactions.