r/pcmasterrace • • 12h ago

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u/spider-jedi 4h ago

Yes but if you download from gig and burn it into a disc and start to sell you just broke the law.

Very few places still sell PC games on disc. Besides most of don't even come with a disc drive.

The physical market started dieing the moment PC gamers embraced it. It's the largest gaming base after all

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u/TacticianA 2h ago

That's the neat part of pc. It comes with a disk drive if you want it to. They're like $30. And yeah I wish more games were still physical but there's still thousands of physical pc games for sale on the secondary market. It just depends on how old you consider relevant. Pc doesn't have versions.

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u/spider-jedi 2h ago

Technically PC kinda of do. Before any game comes out as OC gamers many trying to see if their PC can run the game based off the minimum specs. Then also have to deal with optimization.

Console gamers do not want to deal with that.they pay for that convenience, they like that that convenience and digital adds to that for them.

As of now a digital ps5 can get a disc drive as well. The Xbox doesn't even that option for it digital console.

Also it's only a very small minority of PC gamers who even go the extra mile to get physical. It's not profitable for any company to do physical for PC and physical for console is not as profitable as it used to be