I'd be curious to know how many PC gamers actually have BD optical drives. Building a new PC now and have absolutely no consideration for one.
That aside, just look past the thinly veiled PR talk to see what this really is about, cost.
That's largely why they don't worry about it, not a lot do. they will be mastering the game to be put on blu ray as that is what both PS4 and XBox One use as media but blu ray adoption on PC was very low partly because the constant DRM changes could mean you couldn't play any media on them after a while with out buying expensive software.
I have suggested this to. Half a year ago. But i think they want to make sure we dont sell the game when we are done with it.
It is better for them to sell it a year later with 30% discount than we sell it and they get nothing.
As I mentioned in my earlier post, there is a missing content with an empty optical-disc box. Thus the retail version is an incomplete product.
There is several good reasons for the game to be shipped in a physical medium when purchasing the retail version and arguing that not many people care about optical drives or blurays is not an excuse to depart from a tradition where, especially CDPR has a name for in terms of DRM-free games.
And again, if
YOU are someone who prefers digital games anyway, then
YOU aren't the target for retail games anyway. And just because
YOU don't have an optical drive in your PC, because you prefer digital content whatsoever, then
YOU - in my opinion - don't have the right to speak for those who do have optical drives and who do prefer to have a retail game with an optical medium where the game they purchase is backed up.
Why would anyone buy from retail? Just buy it on gog, physical media is a liability, an empty box is an utterly pointless waste of resources and space, and do you really want GameStop (or whatever other retail middle man you buy from) to skim profits off of CDPR?
This argument of yours is kind of selfdestructive.
Almost everything you can buy, e.g. your PC, your displays, your car, the food you buy which is packed in synthetic-sleeve and so on is an utterly pointless waste of resources and space too. If that's what you care about, then you shouldn't own a PC at all.
And those people working at GameStop are human like you and me. They have a job and they also have to earn a living, there is nothing wrong in making a contract with a retailer who sells your game in exchange for a share of the profit.
So what you bascially implying is that these people with their jobs at Gamestop should all get fired because they've no place in society ?
It's absolutely fine if you prefer a digital version, and go buy from gog (I did too), however there are still a lot of people who would like a complete retail version of the game too, whether it's for their collection or just for the purpose to compensate to offline-install the game due to a bad internet connection.