do it. I don't care about the practicality of it all I loved those big boxes. But they also need to have the big manuals inside also.

Some of those manuals were absolutely awesome. Like the one for the first Heavy Gear. or the old flight sim games. Or like the original release of Final Fantasy 7 on PC by Edios came with a brady's strategy guide. Heck bring back strategy guides too! I remember when World of Warcraft first came out I picked up the strategy guide with it cause it was full of WoW related Penny-Arcade comics in it and I was (heck still am) a massive fan of Penny-Arcade.

Please don't team up with Limited Run Games to do this.

Maybe for certain Collector's Editions, but overall I don't need optical media when the games are DRM-free anyway.

It’s fun for nostalgia but my pc doesn’t have a disc drive, nor even the space for one. Depending on your internet connection downloading is faster than reading from a disc even. If they were to somehow re-release old collector edition boxes that would become tempting.

If they do a print to order thing, I could see it maybe working out as a cool side business. Or it could be a chance for them to go really harder into the vintage games market if they can get some publishers on board or get the rights to some older stuff. Doesn't seem like a winning market though on a mass market front, more just a form of advertising or a specialty service for physical collectors.

It would be fucking awesome. I can totally see others doing this in the future but GOG is the perfect player for selling drm-free physical stuff at the moment. People who think "full digital is the inevitabile future everything" are just sad analysts watching their own garden, we already know PS5 selling datas were manipulated from Sony, people need physical like in any other art medium.

While this is something I’d love to see I have a hard time fathoming how they could do this to any level of scale. They would have to pick a few games and probably a language or two.

I think GOG would be best suited to just offer cover art as a download and maybe build tools right into GOG galaxy to let you burn games to DVR.

But I do love GOG if I can I always buy through there store front. Sadly it’s rarer then I’d like

If they came with manual, posters, artwork and all the goodies of old game boxes could be a win.

Also better done with completed games that are no longer to be updated.

For an empty box with a cd that once installed you need to download a 50Gb patch for it to be playable would make no sense.

~thinks about cloth maps from Ultima games

~ heavy breathing

I mean in a way this is exciting, sure.

In particular if they do this in a somewhat eco-friendly fashion, that is, it's just about the box and the manual and all that. No actual disc/thumbdrive/whatever. Granted GOG in particular would be in a position where they can do this due to their installers, but it'd still be absurd materials and logistics-wise, in particular old-style big box PC releases.

To add, I just recently finally got rid of the last of my old PC games boxes like DAoC or the ME games. I had already thrown out most older games such as Homeworld or Battle Isle years and years prior when I moved where I live right now.
Was it a kinda cool-looking collection in the living room? Yes. Did it take an absurd amount of space for no reason and it's not like I even had a disc drive in the past 20 or so years? Yes. I nowadays have a pretty large board games collection, and that needs the space the books and video games previously took. So I donated books to hospitals and jails and so on, and games I gave away, sold or in some cases just tossed. Fond memories, but not enough to justify the amount of physical space used for a physical medium I cannot even use.

Optical media? Maybe not.

Custom flash drives? That would be gravy.

Much rather have them create read-only (or semi read only to import patches?) flash-storage USB sticks.

Who the hell has a built-in CD player or even a BD-player in this time and age?
I have an external USB-CD player but only so I can digitize the CDs I buy online.

I would prefer them to focus on bringing more games to the Store. If people want CD everyone can print them by themself with the already DRM Free games.

Did GOG ever end up meaningfully addressing that neonazi shit?

I interpret it more as preserving those big box games from the past, not releasing new boxes. Riding the current wave for marketing.

I think physical copies are still important, and if I ever go as far as selling my own games, I plan to sell them alongside the digital copies. I'll see how much I can put into it after losing the 30% Gaben tax, likely a small box with installer DVD (or optionally USB stick if I will be able to find quality ones for cheap) + printed manual will be the baseline, then a Big Box edition for more money with some more goodies (soundtrack CDs + artbook + posters + other tats).

I mean box art is kinda cool, but who even wants to use optical media? It's not the 2000s anymore.

Possible idea, memory stick? Faster transfer speeds. Downside is it would cost quite a bit extra. But then posting internationally is probably going to cost a fair bit too so for a collectors item it might not be too bad and makes it actually usable.

Maybe for collector editions? Otherwise digital via GoG galaxy client is preferable

I don't have the fancy boxes and art, but I've been taking all my offline installers and burning them on cds and dvds.

My little USB disc drive has been working overtime this year.

I'm hoping to get a desktop with cd storage framing the monitor like I used to have.

Practical? Not really. I just think it's neat.

They’re DRM free, so why not burn it to physical media with a label? Even so, I’m ok with GOG downloads. What’s fun is you can share your account with your partner or your kids and no one will care.

PS controller peeking through 👀

Anyone know what was up with the Nazi symbolism they emailed purposefully? I would really want to support them but I need to know that it wasnt something terrible they did. Physical releases is definitely a plus as well.

They aren't a publisher They won't make a dent in the market.

I just want transferable perpetual licences.

Fuck Gabe, fuck Sony. Scumbags.

They can do this for the upcoming Thief remaster...

Would it be feasible (if thats not what's happening here already) to just have blank boxes, blank discs, blank sleeve inserts, and just fire up the printer when an order comes in?

I could see it being "fairly easy" to automate, but no true understanding of if it would be realistically cost-effective or if it would scale appropriately or whatever.

I think it would be cool to have physical copies of your fav pc games. I think physical media in general should have a comeback

If they made manuals, maps and art work available online for download, even if it was an extra cost item, I would be interested. I don't have room for the boxes.