sorry about my previous threads, i acted like a complete asshole, i will understand if you wish i burn in hell.
if you can forgive me, keep reading:
nowadays, you enter in a store, and you don't see many games for sale (im speaking about my city. maybe its different where you live) like in the past.
i like collecting games and keeping them in shelves, but some of them can only be obtained in digital versions, or special editions for a very limited time (resonance). i miss the old days.
maybe you think im moron, because i can play the game in any case, so why im whining?
but just like books, i like feeling them in my hands. and the smell when you open the box of your new game, for me these little things make it worth the price, even if i have to pay more (digital versions are cheaper normaly).
what do you think? do you prefer purchasing physical copies or digital?

Since new retail PC games are Steam-in-a-box it has become pretty much pointless to buy retail imo.
For old games there are your local 2nd hand markets or (overpriced) Amazon and E-Bay.

And here is a +1 from me. =)

I love physical copies. When I think of all the boxes I've thrown out over the years, it makes me sad. At the time, though, I never thought "Some day, I'm going to wish I had this back."

The biggest draw of digital is convenience, it seems. For music, games, and even books now, there seems to be a push of "it's the content that counts, not what form it takes", which to me kind of takes some of the fun out of it. I would personally prefer to buy a real book with two covers and pages in between, buy a real cd with its own case and booklet, and buy a game in a box.

I had a lot of physical copies of games, nice boxes they were. Only a few of them survived the infamous video game purge my wife orchestrated some years ago.

That was a sad day.

I miss my box from the original TR. It was so cool but you couldn't really put it on a shelf because of it's shape. I also miss my Postal box that had the bullet holes that went all the way through. Oh the memories.

When's The Great Shoe Ousting going to take place?

She'd kill me if I touched her shoes, she would. Never touch a woman's shoes.

Edit. I managed to save my retail copy of The Movies. I hung onto that like it was my mother, hissing.

For me, digital copies are much more convenient. I never had a lot of room, and I fully embraced the digital age as a great solution for any storage problems. ;)

I'm actually often re-buying digital copies of games that I already own, so that I can finally ditch (or give away) the disc. Boxes always ended in paper trash directly after purchase; much too unwieldy. I used to keep the manuals, but nowadays there's little reason for that either, since most manuals are available as PDF in one form or another.

There are a few boxes that I did keep, but these are rare exceptions. Ultima V with the cloth map and the coin that symbolizes the 3 powers and 8 virtues, "Leather Goddesses of Phobos" with the scratch'n'sniff pad, etc. There are some GOGlodytes who created DVD covers for the games on GOG, to print them out and put them in a (non-virtual ;) ) shelf. We had a thread or two about that, and I wanted to link them, but the search function hates me today. :(

awesome! i'll search this topic ^^

https://secure.gog.com/forum/general/unofficial_dvd_covers_for_gog_com_games

thank you sir!

Sometimes I just want to redesign or take video game covers from other region. I don't know why US covers are mostly tacky and bad but Japanese and European console covers are amazing.

Btw someone made a thread about making console covers for GOG games, check it out.

For me, it depends on the size of the game. I prefer to have the disc/s for larger games because those take a very long time to download with my internet connection. I'm fine with digital copies for smaller games.

It's not a game but I do have something that is worth approx. $600 because I still have the box. Does this apply? :-)