I was wondering if there are still people who prefer having their games nicely sitting on a shelf rather than downloading and intalling them directly from Steam or whichever other means..
In my country the game industry is almost inexistent, and there is actually no market for game publishers, since (what follows may sound somewhat funny) the internet conexion is usually unlimited in bandwith, ISP don't block access to p2p sites, download/upload rates are high(a mean of 5 MO/s), salaries are not very good, and also I'm not aware of any legislation to prohibit internet piracy. So, when you want a movie or a game, you download it.
This is what I did with Pathologic and a lot other games. I downloaded it, played it, really-really enjoyed it. But, because I highly enjoyed it, it came to me a strange idea: to buy a physical CD. That was the moment when I realised the value of actually owning an original copy of a game in physical form, with all the artwork, the cover, the leaflet, eventually the box and so on..
Well, that doesn't mean I won't download games from p2p sites
but at least I'll try to fetch some used(if new are not available anymore) copies of the games I highly enjoyed.
Right now, I'm temporarily in France, and here, the market is highly developed. I just ordered about 12 good old adventures (mostly in french) that I already completed, just to have them in my library. Games like Faust - Seven Games of the Soul, Ring - The Legend of Nibelungen, Cryo's Atlantis I and II etc.
I think Cargo! comes only in digital form?! That is a shame, when I think that The Void, in Russia, had a colour set distributed with the box of the game... But, that, I think, depends on the publisher...