physical copy or digital copy ?

[NXK]

What do you guys buy, physical copy or ~steam copy of a game? 

 

And also one question =$ if one game has a steam code in it and you type it into the steam, does that mean i wont need CD and I'll be able to download it from another computer when logged into my account? 

[Himommies]

4 minutes ago, NXK said:

does that mean i wont need CD

You'll be very hard pressed to find modern games with discs. They just come with a game code. What specifically are you talking about?

[Radium_Angel]

5 minutes ago, NXK said:

physical copy or ~steam copy of a game?

If they made physical copies of the games I played, I'd buy just to have.

[NXK]

9 minutes ago, Himommies said:

You'll be very hard pressed to find modern games with discs. They just come with a game code. What specifically are you talking about?

so you mean when you buy physical copy of 2019~ game, there wont be a disc in it but just a code? wut*.*

[flibberdipper]

8 minutes ago, NXK said:

so you mean when you buy physical copy of 2019~ game, there wont be a disc in it but just a code? wut*.*

It wasn't even that different before now. My copy of Portal 2 installs Steam and some of the game from the disc, and then just downloads a majority of it since it's tied to your account now anyways, and that was something like 2013 that I got that.

 

Really the only truly disc-based games are for consoles anymore, and oftentimes even those have so much in the way of day-one install downloads that you're not a whole hell of a lot better off getting a disc over a download.

[demonix00]

Physical releases either only have a license code and no disc or a disc with hardly any of the install data and still requires using the license code into the specific service platform to download the whole game.

[JabroniBaloney]

Digital all the way. There's no need to create more waste. 

[Radioactive Snowman]

Physical is a waste, just buy digital unless its a collectors edition

[porina]

From July... This came as part of a physical collectors edition. I never used the disk so no idea what was on it. Maybe the installer, but as an MMO, there's a ton of updates to download anyway. There was a code that I needed to enter to activate it on my account and it downloaded updates as needed.

[Andreas Lilja]

On 9/10/2019 at 4:45 PM, flibberdipper said:

It wasn't even that different before now. My copy of Portal 2 installs Steam and some of the game from the disc, and then just downloads a majority of it since it's tied to your account now anyways, and that was something like 2013 that I got that.

Started being the case with Half-Life 2. Surprised that the Steam-DVD combo was used as late as 2013.