... that pc games used to come in. They look so good up there, and made buying a pc game that extra more special because it felt like you were really getting something great - well, compared to the generic and boring dvd cases everything comes in there days.

Nothing beats my Jedi Knight box.

I've thrown most of my cardboard boxes away, mostly due to not being allowed to buy games as a kid and because they take way too much space or something...

Oh well. I hate those generic DVD boxes more though.

Yeah!
Um, I agree!

I prefer the DVD boxes. I always used to throw the boxes away. Now I can keep the games and the manuals together!

They should put the CDs in a DVD case instead of a Jewel case and put the whole thing in a big cardboard box like it should be.

I think more games should be downloadable so that I don't have to have some irritating tangible product.

/me looks up at his Dark Forces box

I used to keep all my gaming boxes, but they took so much space I threw them all away.

I actually like the content distribution systems coming up like "Steam". Nothing annoys me more than having to dig out a CD to play a game on an impluse. With Steam, I can load any game without a CD and just play away.

I can't recall a game in recent memory that I couldn't fix that problem with. But it might be different with lots of newer ones because I am kind of behind.

Same here.

I would keep the boxes, but they were so big they would invariably be in the way so they would get: steped on, droped, bumped, kicked, and smashed, out of recognition. so I don't have any any more.

as for games on CD I like having a hard copy arround.

i wish i still had my dark forces box

Steam is a good idea with poor execution. It just doesn't work very well, although in a few years it'll be the main way of getting games. I still feel for those dial up people though...I mean, sure, I can't game on satellite, but atleast I get 80 kb/s download!

Still have mine, and the strategy guide.

ha, I still have the strategy guide too

that was like the only strategy guide I ever actually used

I have this Kickass CnC [No the first decade] box thats fold out and everything...
I also have a starcraft box that had 2 statagy guides the games tactical books and a flyer man it is SWEET! That is how they should ALL come!

How does steam not work well? It's always worked perfect for me, and I havn't heard any substantial complaints about it in months.

Regardless, steam isn't the only service that offers downloadable games. A lot of games are switching over these days.

Personally, I don't care much for packaging, or even discs in some cases. I just want to play the game without having other stuff take up space. I can understand wanting to keep the manuals, though, because I find it's always easier to flip through a booklet than to scroll through a help file or whatnot.

Whats the difference? I'd rather have a hard plastic case to store my games in rather then a cheep jewel case with a wimpy cardboard box.

I miss the cardboard boxes with maeve inside them...

I loved those old boxes. Who remembers X-Wing in that one box that opens from the front, with those big black discs that looked like they came from a C64? Man I loved those boxes...

I get a crappy download rate, which I can understand since it's an extremely used service, but geting 8 kb/s when I'm capable of 85 isn't understandable. I find the program slow as well, although the new skin and updates seemed to have fixed that a bit, not sure how.

I also don't like how an internet connection is required. When I had dial up, I bought HL2. I installed it, and then spent 3 hours updating and unlocking the files or whatever just to find that the GAME DIDN'T PLAY. Sure, you can play in their offline mode, but I couldn't ever get it to work and you still need internet to unlock the files and update in the first place.

And somehow, Steam managed to bork my HL files over. I was just playing, and saved to go to bed that night. I wake up, load my game, and it crashes with some stupid AI bug. OK, no problem, I save my save game files and re-install. I try again, same error. OK, this is getting annoying. So I just start a new game...same problem when I came to a security guard. I re-installed about 6 times, and it gave me the same error. Now I can't play HL through Steam, which I was getting used to and starting to like the program.

I like the idea, it's cool, I just think Valve needs to rework the program a bit, and not make it required for the games. You can just give it your CD key, and throw your CDs and CD key away then. You can go to an uncle's house and play CS with your friends even though your uncle doesn't own CS. But the program itsself is buggy, and even though most of everyone is in broadband, the few dial up people are upset by it.

Oh, and I like to have a hard copy of something. It's nice to be able to hold a CD in your hand and say "This is what I bought. I will have it forever." as opposed to hovering your cursor over a game and saying "This is what I bought. I guess I'll have it forever..?" If Valve offered both playing off CD and playing off Steam, I'd like the program even more.

I first got Steam when I had dialup and dealt with the pains. I just left it on one day when I had a soccer game, came back and everything was updated (this is because I had the original already installed, and it converted that to Steam)

Now I have broadband, and get super speeds on it. I've had no major problems with Steam - (except a bug from last patch clearing favorite list and this odd thing where I can't join a server until like 20 seconds after the servers stop refreshing).

Still, I've logged countless hours with Steam and like how a huge % of the games I play can all be started in one program.

I wish LEC would soon goto that...

Steam is quite good, but it still has some ugly flaws. Like, it should absolutely immediately work in offline mode.

BFII came in a nice case. Sort of like combing the features a DVD and cardboard case into one mega-cool case.

I think my favourite case is the San Andreas one. It's a cardboard box (DVD case sized) which contains a manual in the form of a hard back book (DVD case sized) and the CD was in the back of the manual.

Yes. This is a great case.

I don't mind Steam, but it is terribly finicky. I could go on for a page and a half about the problems we've had in my Game Design class trying to get Steam to work. Of course, that could be because instead of allowing us to use the personal liscenses they gave us for the semester, we have to use the Steam service for internet cafes when we connect from the lab. It's working now, but it was a nightmare for the first couple of days. Also, trying to keep the correct directories in the SDK with the internet cafe style connection is a pain in the arse.

I like the DVD boxes, but they take too much space. I wish they came in the fancy boxes, but kept jewel cases inside the box.
I've started a bookshelf style thing across my piano for all my newer games.

I remember the days when the PC game boxes were big, too. The problem was that those boxes got dented so easily.

I got Frogger in a big box.

I prefer the maeveinnamatchbox myself

You used to get so much more in the old boxes. Like the newspaper that came with Deus Ex.
Nowadays you're lucky when the manual on the CD is in color.

All of them are downloadable