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Do you still play any PC games on a physical disc? Or, when did you last do that? (feddit.online)
submitted 4 days ago by tuckerm@feddit.online to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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Like many people, I've been thinking about physical media lately, and how our entertainment items -- movies, albums, books -- used to be things that sat on a shelf that someone else could see and say, "Hey I like this thing on your shelf."

PC games were one of those things, once. I have a few. And I've scrounged them up from their various moving boxes and parents' houses to see if they still work.

Does anyone here still play a game from an optical drive? A game where your regularly-played copy isn't the Steam version?

For me, Morrowind was the last game that I was still playing on a disc. I have newer games on discs, but just played those once or twice and then put them back on the shelf. But I was still playing Morrowind from a CD up until 2023, when it went on sale on Steam for $1, so I bought it. I almost didn't get it, since I liked the fact that I was still playing a game on a CD.

I plan on taking inventory of which games still work and what it takes to install them today.

What were (are?) some of your favorites?

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[โ€“] Malgas@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not sure what the last one was, but the last couple PC games I bought physical copies of could be installed from the disc, but also had Steam keys in the box and then didn't require the disc to play.

[โ€“] tuckerm@feddit.online 1 points 4 days ago

The most recent ones I've bought were only a Steam key in the box, and the DVD simply had a Steam installer on it. Nice that some have both, I haven't actually seen one of those.