I used to be a physical-only copy person and enjoyed having the extra packaging.
I still mostly am, at least on console, but on PC I got used to years of "community demos" even before games started having official digital releases, so I got used to having a digital library. I seem to mind it a lot less on PC as a result. GOG handles things the right way, with a DRM-free digital library you can do whatever you want with. Physical games don't even come with manuals anymore. And once the industry switched over to optical discs, retail packaging for games was just the CD or DVD case, no fancy box. So grabbing physical copies isn't really anything special these days. Nevertheless, as someone who continues to play games and systems decades later, I like the idea of a fully-offline game that I can play long after download servers have been shut down. That's what pisses me off about Switch games where the whole game isn't on the cartridge (cuz devs are cheap and don't wanna spring for the largest-size cartridges). When you buy such a game, you have to download the rest of the data. Good luck doing that 20 years from now.
Another thing is that throughout my life, I depended heavily on borrowing games from friends and family. You can't do that with digital copies of games, except with GOG games (where a friend can just give you a full copy). I guess Steam family/library sharing is sort-of a way to borrow games in the modern digital age. That has been pretty handy. When my friends started getting digital console games, I got pissed cuz it meant I wouldn't be able to borrow those games when they were done with them. Well as it so happens, my friends just started letting me borrow their consoles. Worked out well when I don't have the console to begin with (as is often the case, cuz I don't usually grab consoles until late in their generation, or sometimes even
after their generation). If console exclusives keep coming to PC though, I won't ever need to borrow or buy a console again.
...unless it's something really special that comes with cool swag but even then they usually cost so much that I don't do them.
Same. Most of the time their cost can't be justified. I'd buy a lot more of them if their prices were reasonable. Too late now though. I've gotten addicted to years of super discounts for games on Steam and the like. About 2 decades worth of sales. It's gotten to the point where now I consider $10-$15 a normal price for a game, with $20 being a bit expensive, and a good chunk of my purchases are below $10. That doesn't just go for PC storefronts, but non-Nintendo console games too. Every PS4 game I have (most of which are physical copies) I spent $10 or less on, except for maybe one. All were bought brand-new.
I've yet to do a humble bundle but maybe someday.
I don't do the game bundle subscription, but I do have an account to take advantage of the normal sales that they have, same as the other digital game stores. If I find a Steam game on there for cheap and it's not that low anywhere else, I'll grab it from there. I do have friends who do the subscription though, and sometimes they'll get games they don't want, or already have. So they toss me the codes and I get some free games.
Btw Disney has a cool collectors edition for its upcoming Gargoyles Remastered Edition (Sega Genesis). I saw it on the weekend.
Ah yes, I forgot that game is getting a remaster:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1928020/Gargoyles_Remastered/
Might this be what you are referring to:
https://limitedrungames.com/collections/all-games/products/gargoyles-collectors-edition-genesis
Or this?
https://limitedrungames.com/products/limited-run-531-gargoyles-remastered-collectors-edition
Limited Run Games always got some crazy physical editions. There's a lot of stuff I wanted to buy from them over the years but never really felt like spending on the money on. Luckily I have friends who do.
