2 or 3 years remaining for physical game retailers in South Africa - BT Games

[Progenix Oj101]

I have a lot of old games on disks from 2000 - 2010 years. The problem is that they are mostly the original release. Not the game of the year editions with all updates. So those disks are pretty much worthless since if I ever play those games again, I want to play them with all updates and DLC, etc. So will get again them through GoG or elsewhere.

If you want to part with any of them, let me know. I’ve been on a purchasing spree lately, adding almost 100 games from 1993-2005 in the last six weeks

 

[Peon]

If you want to part with any of them, let me know. I’ve been on a purchasing spree lately, adding almost 100 games from 1993-2005 in the last six weeks

The Apogee titles are hard to get. Monster Bash, Blake Stone, Bio Menace.

 

[stefan9]

The Apogee titles are hard to get. Monster Bash, Blake Stone, Bio Menace.

Hard to browse gog.com? They have them all.

 

[Progenix Oj101]

The Apogee titles are hard to get. Monster Bash, Blake Stone, Bio Menace.

They're not too difficult if you're prepared to spend like there's no tomorrow (which there won't be if your wife finds out what you spent). There is a sealed copy of Blake Stone on eBay right now for R 5.8k

 

[Progenix Oj101]

Hard to browse gog.com? They have them all.

Not physical copies, no. That's what we're talking about.

 

[Peon]

Physical box copies stefan.

 

[Ninja'd]

I'm a game collector, digital downloads don't mean a thing to me. I saw this coming, but it still sucks

Pic of your collection?

 

[SilverCode]

It would be cool if Indie studios designed Box Box covers, manuals and packaging then provided physical stores with the design files. The stores could then print and box the Indie games themselves and sell those from their stores. The industry just needs to come up with a common form factor for USB disks that looks cool.

You could have your favorite indie games in a nice big box complete with all the trimmings and not have to worry about being tied to a digital store-front or other DRM.

 

[Progenix Oj101]

Pic of your collection?

Old pic (about two months old) as I'm in the process of moving and my games are packed, but here we go:

 

[Progenix Oj101]

Oh wait, I got a box of games last week which I haven't even unpacked yet. I've just put them on my now-empty shelves for the sake of a picture. The jewel cases are The Journeyman Project and Homeworld (I bought a complete big box version of Homeworld yesterday).

I've included a few other pics of things I've bought recently as well.

 

[Swa]

Even if you buy a physical disk to avoid needing data, you'll probably still need to download a huge amount for patches/updates. I remember even back in 2011 when I bought a physical version of Skyrim on release, I still needed to download a few GB before I could play it. That was quite annoying because back then all I had was a 2GB pm 3G contract and I needed to download around 2GB.

These days with games being rushed out even more, and the physical disks being shipped out to stores around the world months before release, you still will have to download a huge amount to play because of day 1 patches and updates. So it's better to just go full digital from the start.

In those days you could still get the patches for most games from PCFormat. People keep saying how games always needed patching but the patches were small exe's and not entire content. In most cases they were also not material fixes and you could go without them. Things have changed dramatically and most games today are alpha releases using the public as testers. The quality has also not gotten better because it used to be that buggy games would not sell but now a lot of games are abandoned in a buggy state after developers have made enough money.

Sadly I think even with all the technological developments gaming has become a dying art. I think it's high time for another market crash like the 70's.

 

[Swa]

It would be cool if Indie studios designed Box Box covers, manuals and packaging then provided physical stores with the design files. The stores could then print and box the Indie games themselves and sell those from their stores. The industry just needs to come up with a common form factor for USB disks that looks cool.

You could have your favorite indie games in a nice big box complete with all the trimmings and not have to worry about being tied to a digital store-front or other DRM.

This is something GOG still lacks and will most likely never have with the new direction they're going. I would also like ISOs of the last original boxed versions instead of just their installers.

 

[Forum Reader]

In those days you could still get the patches for most games from PCFormat. People keep saying how games always needed patching but the patches were small exe's and not entire content. In most cases they were also not material fixes and you could go without them. Things have changed dramatically and most games today are alpha releases using the public as testers. The quality has also not gotten better because it used to be that buggy games would not sell but now a lot of games are abandoned in a buggy state after developers have made enough money.

Sadly I think even with all the technological developments gaming has become a dying art. I think it's high time for another market crash like the 70's.

Almost all my games from 2000 to 2010 got large updates and expansions. Have release day disks for Dungeon Siege 1, Dungeon Siege 2, Titan Quest, Mass Effect 1, Dragon Age, Skyrim, Borderlands 1. The updates, expansions and DLC added so much to these games, that to play them without it will feel really bad. So even though I play some of those games now and again, I don't use the disks anymore.

 

[My_King]

Why I love my discs, just need to back up my SD

Soft shutdown of Wii U/3DS eShop services begins in July in select regions

Both the 3DS and Wii U Nintendo eShops will be seeing closures in select Caribbean and Latin American regions as of July 31, 2020.

www.nintendoenthusiast.com

 

[Swa]

Almost all my games from 2000 to 2010 got large updates and expansions. Have release day disks for Dungeon Siege 1, Dungeon Siege 2, Titan Quest, Mass Effect 1, Dragon Age, Skyrim, Borderlands 1. The updates, expansions and DLC added so much to these games, that to play them without it will feel really bad. So even though I play some of those games now and again, I don't use the disks anymore.

I played both the original and GOTY Deus Ex and couldn't notice a difference. Had to go to a walkthrough to know the only thing the GOTY added was an extra object that I wouldn't have discovered otherwise. My point isn't really about the sizes (they have gotten larger over the years since digital) of patches but their necessity. I also couldn't notice any difference between the original and what is now called Unreal Gold except the patch didn't want to load my save files so that's likely where the change was.

 

[Creag]

I have not purchased a physical disc in ... um ... no idea. Cannot remember when last. Perhaps the last one was Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm, and only because of the box set with the book and whatnot. Digital has been so much easier, simpler, and managing the games I have through online accounts means I can access them whenever and wherever.

My latest home PC case has no optical drive, which makes digital even more important.

 

[Progenix Oj101]

I have not purchased a physical disc in ... um ... no idea. Cannot remember when last.

About 30 seconds ago for me

 

[Progenix Oj101]

Today's haul (@Ninja'd )





Just shy of 100 new titles (I've removed all the duplicates from the box).