I'm more of a DIY nut when it comes to ripping content, because I'd rather not have to hunt through a bajillion torrents to try and find a clean copy that doesn't have some kind of funky subtitles or jacked audio, but I get what you're saying. I'm lucky enough to have the storage space to keep my physical discs for stuff like movies and TV, but I haven't bought a boxed copy of a PC game in years. If possible I try to buy from GoG, although keeping ones downloaded backups up to date in this age of perpetual patches is a bit of a pain in the ass.
I always hated ripping stuff myself because I could never decide on a good ratio between file size and quality. So I just stuck with what scene groups released. Rips from final blurays/dvds were usually good enough. Although I haven't bothered torrenting anything in many years. There just isn't enough worth keeping these days.
keeping ones downloaded backups up to date in this age of perpetual patches is a bit of a pain in the ass.
Yea that's fucking annoying. IIRC GoG displays a green dot on games in your library that had an update after you downloaded it. On steam the only way I found to see which of your games got updated is going through the "recently updated" page. At least they now go back more than a couple of weeks.
I'm more of a DIY nut when it comes to ripping content, because I'd rather not have to hunt through a bajillion torrents to try and find a clean copy that doesn't have some kind of funky subtitles or jacked audio, but I get what you're saying. I'm lucky enough to have the storage space to keep my physical discs for stuff like movies and TV, but I haven't bought a boxed copy of a PC game in years. If possible I try to buy from GoG, although keeping ones downloaded backups up to date in this age of perpetual patches is a bit of a pain in the ass.
I always hated ripping stuff myself because I could never decide on a good ratio between file size and quality. So I just stuck with what scene groups released. Rips from final blurays/dvds were usually good enough. Although I haven't bothered torrenting anything in many years. There just isn't enough worth keeping these days.
Yea that's fucking annoying. IIRC GoG displays a green dot on games in your library that had an update after you downloaded it. On steam the only way I found to see which of your games got updated is going through the "recently updated" page. At least they now go back more than a couple of weeks.