Optical drives are no longer an option, even if you wanted. Has anyone looked at building a new PC lately? The cases are almost (as in >99%) certain to have a front consisting of a solid wall of fans. I also still have a 5.25' floppy drive in a drawer, though I don't currently have a running PC with a port to plug it in (though I might have enough old parts laying around to get something running if I needed to) And yes, I do have boxes of old PC floppy disks, both 3.5' and 5.25', as well as some boxes of Commodore 64 games on 5.25' floppies, many of which probably aren't even readable anymore, but at least some of them still worked as of about 10 years ago the last time I actually fired up some old C64 hardware.ĭigital hoarding is so much more convenient than physical hoarding, and takes up far less physical space in the house. I'm actually more of a game hoarder, and for me, a nice high capacity NAS is a much more convenient method than boxes of optical or floppy disks.

I don't think I've ever sold a game in my life, and I've been gaming since the 80s. Resale is really not something that I ever think about.

DRM-free games can be protected against these failure modes. Physical media can wear out or get damaged, online servers can be shut down.

Click to expand.I prefer downloads, though I also generally prefer DRM-free so that I can actually keep my own (working) backup copies that aren't tied to any online account or physical media or hardware key.

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