pc games no longer in shops?

Maybe I'm old fashioned but I still prefer buying a physical copy, even if you then have the risk of losing or scratching the disc etc. Easier to sell on etc.
 
I still have the Total Annihilation and Tomb Raider big boxes in my "media cupboard", got some more in the attic - red alert, destruction derby 2 and some more I can't remember.

As a kid the big boxes were amazing, it was like an event getting a new game and I'd go through the contents of the box in the car on the way home.

Now though I don't really care what the box is like, but getting a collectors edition game does hark back to those old days.
 
If it's a game I want badly and will cherish, and it's one I know I will play more than once, I go for the physical copy pre-order. If it's one I haven't made my mind up on and are waiting for word to spread on how good the game really is and it's good, I buy off steam. Lastly if it's one I want to play but not desperately, and want it cheap as possible, I buy the physical copy from the cheapest place online.

For downloading via Steam, I always download overnight.

That's the way I do it. I don't bother buying PC games from shops. What's a shop anyway?!?! :p
 
it might be me reading too much into it but because the majority of shops didn't take back pc games (I'm guessing to do with CD keys or something) they couldn't re-sell them, which means they lose out on the 100% profit pre-owned sales.
 
I used to be quite fond of my 80+ DVD cases and the 50+ ye olde big boxed games I have that made up my collection, now I look at the space it takes up in the wardrobe/shelf for a bunch of games of which the last one I played was at least 5+ years ago and weep. It's not even games now, I'm just thinking that I can't even remember the last time I went into a shop, may have been as long as a year ago -- Groceries / clothes / music / appliances etc, I buy all of it online now. I may just be a slave to convenience, but It will be interesting to see what exactly the highstreet will be comprised of in a couple of decades.
 
Spektor said:
I used to be quite fond of my 80+ DVD cases and the 50+ ye olde big boxed games I have that made up my collection, now I look at the space it takes up in the wardrobe/shelf for a bunch of games of which the last one I played was at least 5+ years ago and weep. It's not even games now, I'm just thinking that I can't even remember the last time I went into a shop, may have been as long as a year ago -- Groceries / clothes / music / appliances etc, I buy all of it online now. I may just be a slave to convenience, but It will be interesting to see what exactly the highstreet will be comprised of in a couple of decades.
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DVD cases and big box PC games took up far too much room and mine all went into a skip once i'd transferred all the games I wanted to keep onto ISO image and stored on a 1TB hdd..

Steam and downloading is actually preferable for me now as i'm using a laptop and I like how I can just fire up steam and play a game - no DVD required.

I have now started to spend the extra it costs to buy a game online in favour of not having to have a DVD or something...

I'm not surprised high street PC gaming sales are all but coming to an end... I'll be honest and I've been so busy lately buying my games online etc, i've not actually noticed, but OP is right, PC games are no longer as widely stocked in stores anymore.

I looked in our local tesco in my lunch break today, and yep ... Hardly any stock of PC games at all, got the top five, which was mostly SIMS and Diablo III was in stock, but that was it..
 
My local game shop is the Oxford St flagship HMV store. They still stock some PC games that begin with Sims but pretty much nothing else.

They ran the UK launch of Diablo 3 but when I went in last Thursday there was TONS of Diablo branded gaming mice, mice pads, headphones, posters etc. Rows and rows of it.

Didn't have the game tho.

Frankly they are rubbish for console stuff too, never had Shadow of the Collossus HD either.
 
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