GOG wants to bring back physical PC game releases
Translated with AI from the Russian original.
Many PC gamers transitioned to digital long ago, but some would still like to have physical editions in their collections.
Right now, some PlayStation fans are revolting over Sony moving away from game discs, while on PC, digital services have long displaced physical versions, and many players no longer even have a disc drive. However, GOG intends to change the current state of affairs in the PC market.
During a recent interview with GamesRadar+, Marcin Paczynski, GOG's senior business development and partnerships manager, shared that he would like to offer users a system through which they could order physical copies of any games in the store:
Imagine: you go to your GOG library, click on the game you'd like to get a physical copy of, order it — and it gets shipped to you. That would be the ideal scenario.
Marcin Paczynski noted that GOG has been considering this idea internally for several years. However, turning such an idea into a working business model is no easy task. A potential shift toward retailing physical editions of games comes with various legal challenges, and logistics (storage and order delivery) also need to be figured out:
This idea has been floating around GOG for years. And personally, I still really hope that one day we'll be able to bring it to life.
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