For me it's a simple enough to round it down to "space saving" and for the most part going digital, especially in movies is very much that.


However PC games forced it quite early, all because of Steam.. as soon as every label required that shit (i cursed and avoided it for years) buying a disc with half a game on it to then download the other half after signing upto Steam was an absolute waste of fookin time.

Along with the lack of space, i just stopped bothering with physical PC games outside of collectors edition type stuff.




If i was still a console gamer i'd go with physical media, at the very least those you can trade away. PC games stopped being trade-able before Steam came along.

AAA games can cost consumers anywhere from $60 and up - depending on expansions, Season Passes, etc etc.

Also, thumb drives ain't cheap for the consumer, if we want to stick them on blank thumb drives we buy from the store - often costing $10-30+ for anything in the 100+GB range (depends if you catch a sale or not). Why buy one of those to stick a COD game on, when I can buy a 4TB HDD external for around say $60 and stick a good deal of games just on that?

As much as I'd like to see games on thumbs drives for PC and/or any other form of media that a game can fit on at a retail store - I really don't see that happening. Dev's and pub's barely sell PC games at retail anymore and have gone green for the most part - completely cutting out the costs of CD's, DVD's, BR's, and even probably possibility of them sticking them on thumb drives. Especially when they know most of us got the Internet and can download from there anyways.

“The reason” “I moved to GOG” “from Steam” is because GOG ain’t bugged unlike Steam. In fact, a few Steam games have physical copies with Steam registration and confirmation built into them. (Or at least it’s one of my reasons out of several).