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Physical Game Copies

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Rusty Eyes

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Gentlemen, is there any store where I can buy physical copies of PC games? The Nintendo Switch games have several of those, including RPGs, but I can't find a single one offering the same for PC players.
 

agentorange

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Why even bother. Any new game will require you to register it on some platform like Steam. Game boxes now days are flimsy small trash and the manual is 4 pages of legal babble in 4 languages. If you are insistent on it then why not try Amazon, I doubt most stores are willing to waste space on boxed PC games since no one buys them now.
 

Morpheus Kitami

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Depending on the store, places like Walmart, Best Buy and Gamestop sell physical PC games. Maybe. When Cyberpunk 2077 came out, what you were buying was a box with a download code. Amazon should sell anything anyone else is selling but they make damn sure you can't find it. In general expect to find a weird mix of AAA titles, along with weird choices. Hidden object games, strange collections of old video games, random simulation games, and maybe even the new Nancy Drew games.
Other than that, new boxed games are hard to find. Individual companies sell their games in this format sometimes, but usually you have to be on the ball in getting it. Likewise Kickstarter bonuses. Limited Run Games sometimes sells PC games, but they're usually just new copies of old games...or crap. Other companies like them don't really deal in PC games. They've sort of gone out of style, for exactly the reasons Agentorange says, why bother for something that's crap, and why would the company bother on something that's crap?
 

agentorange

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You could have just Googled this.
Why post anything at all. Whole point of forum is you can ask a question and it will get more personal and unique responses and maybe lead to discussion. Also information overload now days with google you try to search for something and you get 20 pages of some kind of automatically generated top 10 list sites filled with ads, and reddit.
 

Avonaeon

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PC games as physical products pretty much died about 10 years ago. As others mention, they're just empty boxes with download codes now. Very rarely you will find a one-off special edition with the game on a usb stick or something.
 

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