This could be the case, or could not be. They shared a post on Reddit 19 hours ago from their official account, and I thought it might be nice to share that here, at least to spark some discussion.
They simply shared a post titled:
Shall we? 📦💿
With the following image:
Link to the Reddit post is here if you want to see what others are saying about it!
Maybe for collector editions? Otherwise digital via GoG galaxy client is preferable
YES YES YES YES
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.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.
Print to order is the best way I was wondering why they “announced” this and then your comment made it click I bet that is how they do it.
Actually super cool I won’t lie.
~thinks about cloth maps from Ultima games
~ heavy breathing
They used to make them out of cloth???
They were beautiful! (this one has extra annotations written on it by the player)
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.
100% feel you I miss picking up a game with a phat manual, I am smell the fresh ink from the manuals when I think about it hard enough lol
Or buying a large paged, glossy, color printed, gorgeous strategy guide I would read for pleasure and enjoy as a piece of art as well as a walkthrough
Ahh fuck I miss being younger. The late 90’s and early to mid 2000’s were an incredible time for video games
Maybe for certain Collector’s Editions, but overall I don’t need optical media when the games are DRM-free anyway.
Makes sense to me, actually.
It’d be an easy way to get and also store the DRM-free offline installer, in where you don’t have to permanently allocate active storage to keep the installer around.
burn it yourself
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 aren’t a publisher They won’t make a dent in the market.
I just want transferable perpetual licences.
Fuck Gabe, fuck Sony. Scumbags.
If they do that, I’d re-buy all my gog games instantly collectors edition. As long as they have no DRM, no internet requirements and I can play them whenever, wherever, I’m buying.
Gog already are no drm and you could write it to a disc if you really wanted to. It’s been like that for a very long time. Given you would be writing a data disc you can even put multiple games on a single DVD in some cases.
Their windows installers are usually split at 4GB - huh, guess what fits nicely on a 4.7GB DVD…
Why am I the only one that has a BD-R drive?
There are dozens of us! Dozens!!
You can buy am external DVD burner for like 25 bucks these days, but blue ray is still over a hundred.
It wasn’t until recently. They used to be considerably cheaper.
Sorry. A blue ray BURNER is pretty expensive. A drive is cheap
That’s not why those drives are expensive. They’re expensive because they can run cfw to enable ripping of UHD and now xbox and nintendo discs.
Pretty sure I bought my Blu-ray burners for like $40 long ago
I have one. I rarely use it but I still do occasionally. I’m due a BR dump in the near future actually
I know that, but I’d like to buy the cool disk with official box and all that why not.
They could sell decent USB optical drives to go with them
Is there such a thing?
I’ve had a few crappy ones, they’re basically e-waste after a few uses or trips. So I revert to a full size internal sata one or the same but in a 5.1/4" external caddy (powered).
Good idea NGL, won’t mind either way to be honest
I can’t say I want to pay extra for these large boxes with extra stuff, but smaller boxes like this I would definitely consider purchasing:
Did GOG ever end up meaningfully addressing that neonazi shit?
No.
Because they don’t feel sorry about doing it on purpose, just that people didn’t like it.
No. At least not to my satisfaction.
That’s disappointing to hear.
Guess I’ll continue to not use them any more.
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.
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.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.
I don’t care about the disc, but I would happily pay 20 bucks to get a map and 80 page booklet for some games.
