As in not on Santa's naughty list?

Don't know about modern gamers but back in stoneage I loved my physical games without any kind of online requirement; be online activations of any kind of the game being such a buggy mess that it day one patches where a must have.

I stopped buying singleplayer games when it was all origin here, steam there in the stores; it became just more and more depressing. It pinged itself back into life for a very short moment when EA announced (and released) Dragon Age & Mass Effect 2 without origin requirement. I got them both but both went full retard on the need patches now; register to origin to get them mode which essential stigmatized the games in the same way online activations did.

I love buying games. This year I spend (excluding a 7,xx bucks gog-wallet savings) 0,11 $ cents on games.

I'll take all digital over physical, any day of the week. I can do without all the clutter, and not having to faff around with a multitude of discs is a-okay in my book. Real manuals were nice to have once, but for the most part they've become pretty pointless these days. I also never truly cared about special boxes or what have you. All I ever wanted was the game inside; that's it.
So the rest run around topless? I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing. =P

Sure that, if "the norm" is your thing. According to your crystal ball, GOG doesn't even exist!

It's been (many) years since I've bought a new game at full price. Why? I have a giant backlog. But I'd still buy a physical release of a great game at release date. But it should be without online DRM and have at least some documentation in the box.
I stopped buying collector's editions when they replaced paper documents with toys.

Fixed that for you.

I never said gog wouldn't exist. I said they would follow suit with steam and other sites offering streamed or online only. They have already made steps towards it.

To me, that's losing its reason for existence. I buy games here because they're DRM free.

So Gwent, absolver, witcher adventure game, goblins inc, the doc for two worlds 2, these are all fine, except of course when they turn off the servers. Online is THE drm, streaming is the ultimate form of drm. If it requires online - and I will pamper to those who don't define online as drm - then it is far worse than drm as drm can be cracked, if you don't have anything you cannot do anything at all.

I'll correct my post:

To me, that's losing its reason for existence. I buy single player games here because they're DRM free.

Of course I wish any form of DRM on any kind of media would stop existing - but I don't play multiplayer anything, so I won't go into that discussion.

Buy us larger houses? Games were distributed that way primarily because there no alternatives for a very long time. Few people had internet until well into the '90s and some people still don't have broad band.

The boxes and physical copies were mostly about selling things to people that were used to buying physical things. Sure, there were mailorder services since at least the 19th century, but it was a common thing until relatively recently to expect to be able to hold something that you've just paid for.

Personally, I barely have space for just the discs that I bought, if I had to also store the boxes and games that I bought digitally, I'd have to move someplace larger.
Depends on the player, personally, I don't like games that have large manuals, I'd much rather discover what's going on by playing. If the game developer can't figure out how to get a player playing the game by button mashing until the controls are worked out and experimenting, then they haven't done their job properly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRGRJRUWafY

Whether you like it or not, you need to face up to the fact that you are no longer a modern gamer.

Welcome to GOG ;)

the problem with luring the modern gamer has nothing to do with what physical games looks like.

Exhibit A:

Has very little to do with to it the market cannot exist for videogames because the average videogame buyer is technologically illiterate and has no idea how tech works.

So the videogame market is not a market. The people buying the most games are the ones who are least computer literate. The vast majority of gamers are tech illiterate.

The success of games like destiny and battlefield with overwhelming drm is testament to this fact. The fact is publishers and Valve got away with stealing games thanks to the rise of mmo's, mass high speed internet and the fact that the average person is fucking retard level stupid in terms of consumer buying habits.

The real issue was high speed internet allowed companies to basically hold the game hostage, so high speed internet undermines the very concept of accountability because you'd need to be physically close to the business for your outrage to have any effect or influence at all. AKA asskicking distance.

MMO's were the original trial balloon to push future generations of gamers away from tech literacy and game ownership. Publishers and the tech industry knows the average consumer is a fucking moron. I lived through the 90's when regular rpg's /w single and multiplayer were relabelled mmo's in order to sell the same game for more money. The average person who bought into Ultima online, everquest and World of warcraft, paved the way for this future.

There were three major developments:

The rise of iphone and ipod during the mid to late 2000's, World of warcraft hit in 2004 and everyone was chasing the mmo dollar for a while, steam came out in 2004, when DRM was forcibly inserted it into halflife. Valve a company that built an empire on theft of half-life, CS and TF2. All valve and game companies had to do was wait a decade for a new generation of kids and idiot adults to grow up and buy games they didn't own since the average game playing teenager is a moron. That is why gaming is so fucked up

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