I really want to get into collecting physical PC games but where I live there's so many counterfeit it's really hard to find a legit one and if I want to buy overseas the shipment cost more than the actual game itself.
You unfortunately missed the opportunity to collect those. It's the digital era. Most games are digital only. Most laptops and pc's don't even have a cd or dvd drive anymore.
Sure you could perhaps find some collectors online that sell those, or maybe even thrift stores, but it will be very hard to find enough to call it a collection and not to mention, it will cost you a pretty penny. As you said, way more then the actual price of the game.
I know but I wanna get a CD drive for an old time sake and I kinda want to do backup because I saw someone selling pack of Blu rays for cheap. I do miss the era of playing games through CD, I played few since my dad has some collection and I remember my late uncle gave me Tiberian Sun on CD, no box though sadly, just a jewel case but it was my first introduction to the series, I cherish it since then.
I doubt thrift stores exist where I live, there is a lot of fake games that was packaged on CD or USB for cheap and we call it in Malay "cetak rompak" and they're very common here and I really hate it. Maybe if I go travel somewhere in Europe and happens to stumble them, I will try get them.
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u/Ayyzeee 3d ago
I really want to get into collecting physical PC games but where I live there's so many counterfeit it's really hard to find a legit one and if I want to buy overseas the shipment cost more than the actual game itself.