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Linux gaming becomes more and more popular. Steam has Linux support, the Humblestore offers Linux games and GOG has announced supporting Linux games in the future. There are also many crowdfunding games which will support Linux.
I'm the kind of player, who still likes to buy games on a disc and put it in a shelve. What I like most is, if these games are independent of any online service resp. the internet.
Unfortunately there's hardly any game out there, which is available on a disc, supports Linux and is DRM free. It doesn't look like this would change anytime soon (or anytime at all).
What's your opinion about this. Do you still buy physical games? Do you care about DRM. Would you like to buy physical, DRM-free Linux games? Do you think that such games will ever be available?
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Personally I don't want to go back to physical copies anymore. I have a tendency to forget where I put all my stuff and due to that I've lost some awesome games. However, I can remember exactly where I've put my games and files on my computer.
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Those CDs are Windows only, have scratches, it gets harder to find the patches any more and the first of them soon will have their 20th anniversary.
I can't throw them away but they are just collecting dust and that's it.
With books it's the complete opposite.
But with digital goods, the technical advantages of internet-distribution far outweight the risk of someone pulling an Amazon on me. With backups even that risk is null.
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Physical distribution is dying and the process is even faster with Linux games. My last purchase was Pandora: First Contact, but it's a rare exception. To keep my shelve full I need to build my own boxes and rely on DRM-free games. AFAIK, even Runesoft with some previous physical titles released their last Linux port: Earth 2140, as digital (Desura) only.
And the remaining market of physical games is evolving to focus on collectors more than gamers. Maybe this makes sense as the collection of boxes is probably related to nostalgia and we are just a bunch of oldies with no time for playing them anyway. For example, today many crowfunding campaigns offer physical copies, but they are usually VERY expensive. I think my homemade box of Larry Reloaded does not look bad though.
If you are interested, I can write a list with the games I know with a disc edition available and some stores to purchase them, but be warned most of them will be old titles.
Thanks, but this won't be required. I'm more interested in newer games and I'm pretty sure I'll can find them on my own (if there are any:'().
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That being said I have also lost data due to dying hard drives or even my own stupidity, but usually there seems to be more recourse with digital software.
Of course one can make digital backups of physical games (and I have done so for this very reason) but that is kind of defeating the purpose in this instance.