Digital or Physical?

[Manifold]

I need the entire collection on the shelf. A DVD is keeping at least 20 years. How long do Steam holds????all speculations. This is not only a question if I'm a fan of steam, Incapacitation and Small holding of the players.

 

[RohirrimElf]

Havent bought a physical game since total war empire.

 

[stealth_nsk]

I need the entire collection on the shelf. A DVD is keeping at least 20 years. How long do Steam holds????all speculations. This is not only a question if I'm a fan of steam, Incapacitation and Small holding of the players.

Physical copy will not work without Steam anyway.

 

[Manifold]

Physical copy will not work without Steam anyway.

I know and that's still a shame

There were better times for players

 

[Balkans]

Digital. I see physical games as dust collectors, nothing more...but i understand people who collect, it's cool, just not my thing.

 

[Oleary]

Usually only purchase digital from Steam, but bought the 25th anniversary edition. Started playing Civ I in my early 30's and have played every incarnation since.

 

[rastak]

Usually only purchase digital from Steam, but bought the 25th anniversary edition. Started playing Civ I in my early 30's and have played every incarnation since.

Late 20's for me when Civ 1 hit the stores. I bought the 25th anniversary edition too.

 

[Slayan]

I have all the box games for all of the Civ games so had to get the anniversary ones this time

 

[Jaybe]

Maybe someone still has that Civ III big carboard box? If you don't need it, you can hand it over to me.

I've got the metal tin for Civ3 Limited Edition. Is that what you were referring to?

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I pre-ordered the digital. This will be the 1st time I haven't purchased the physical from a brick-&-mortar store.

 

[darko82]

I've got the metal tin for Civ3 Limited Edition. Is that what you were referring to?

It was even hard to find the images. I mean this:

Spoiler :

Spoiler :

It had that 200 pages manual. Still have it.

But the metal box you are referring to is a lot more awesome. I wonder how much is it now?

On Amazon it is about 10$ plus shipping.

 

[rastak]

I've got the metal tin for Civ3 Limited Edition. Is that what you were referring to?

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I pre-ordered the digital. This will be the 1st time I haven't purchased the physical from a brick-&-mortar store.

I forgot about that. Yea, that's the version I had too.

 

[thecrazyscot]

I was completely fine with the digital version until they announced the Collector's Edition so now I'm physical.

Exactly. But unfortunately I missed my chance on Amazon, so now I'm very sad.

 

[Ebrim]

Digital. Maybe ten years ago I would've been able to spare some shelf space but I'm old now and have too many books.

 

[thecrazyscot]

One can never have too many books.

 

[Ebrim]

One can never have too many books.

To be clear there was an implied "to have space for a game box" with my statement. Objectively I certainly do not have too many books.

 

[thecrazyscot]

To be clear there was an implied "to have space for a game box" with my statement. Objectively I certainly do not have too many books.

 

[joncnunn]

Both. Allow me to explain. I ordered the 25th anniversary edition because with Amazon prime I literally got it for less than the digital version. I plan on buying two copies for lan play so I'll also be ordering the digital version for my second copy.

Where is the option "both"? It is Civ that we are talking about. I will buy digital just to play it on day 1.
But I will also order a physical copy which (thanks to their marketing policy) I have to order from Singapore if I want to have an English version. And it takes a month to get here.

Option for Both added along with the whichever is cheaper option.

 

[joncnunn]

On the PC side, the main disadvantage of CD only (CD going bad after you've successfully installed it) doesn't apply: The steam key is read off the CD and attached to your steam account.

The main advantages of the CD for the regular version is for those with data limits and/or slow internet.

 

[Disgustipated]

Already bought the Steam version.

The only bad part about Steam is I don't have the fastest internet connection. If I need to reinstall, I can't play the game for many hours (usually around 4 or 5). On the plus side I can just let it download as I sleep. The convenience outweighs the cons for me.

 

[redwings1340]

Digital is just a lot more convenient for me, so digital.