Yes. It doesn't see much use, as my gaming is almost 100% digital these days, but I still need it from time to time when I want to rip songs from my old (or sometimes new) audio CDs for use with my mp3 player, or to watch a DVD.

No optical drives in any device in my home or office any more. Kind of amazing.

When I realized this was the case a few years ago, I finally purged the house of boxes of optical media. What a joy to be rid of those boxes of cumbersome stuff!

Yes, in both my desktop PC and my laptop. I use them once in a blue moon.

I always have an optical drive in my PCs as I have thousands of music CDs and I like to download a selection to listen to while gaming.

Yes, still have some gaming disks, as well as some Gummi Bears and Batman: Animated Series dvds

Sure, it does. It's not like every PC game under the sun has a digital release (unless you're willing to land your ship on the Bay of Pirates or trade some of your Wares on the Abandon square).

My computers both have DVD drives but mainly because they came prebuilt with them...
I sometimes use the one in my main computer, but only really need it for digitalising my Audio CDs, thinking about replacing it with a HDD adapter since all the disk slots are full. Don't think I've ever used the other ones.

I have one in a desktop computer but it is not connected anymore since I managed to add so many HDDs that the drive was left out. I don't remember if this was with current or previous motherboard though.
If I want to use discs I just have to use another computer.

Interesting so far...
I also don't use the drive regularly but when it comes to it, I'm glad I have it. I'd say my frequency of usage is about 2-3 times a month on average. Usually whenever I scan over my physical library of games and spot something I haven't played in a while and want to replay. I can play the game in minutes instead of hours (slow download) that way.

Regarding Blu-Ray, I haven't seen a reason yet to transition to it. It seems to be on the decline rather than anything else. Mostly movies are sometimes released on Blu-Rays and I don't usually watch them from discs anyway.

And once in a blue moon, I take a blank DVD and burn something on it. I still have like 200 blank DVDs that are many years old already, still untouched.

Mine has, but I used it like... three times.
One for the Hitman collection, two for movies.

You seem to look at it as a dichotomy between optical storage and cloud storage. There's also flash memories and solid state drives too, you know. And I'd bet most of the people that seldom use their optical drive, they do it because they use these other type of drives.

My almost 3 years old PC doesn't have an optical drive.
And it's probably more than 10 that I stopped using such supports.
Optical media would probably be already obsolete, if it weren't for movie companies and consoles..

The machine I used yesterday might not be my main machine, but a little while ago I replaced its DVD-RAM drive with a rather more common DVD-RW one because I might eventually want to create discs with it. It also has a Zip-250 drive.

How about sardonically? Gleefully? Impishly? Ooh, I know -- how about sheepishly? That seems to be a popular way to use them these days.

When I was originally building my PC I planned on using one of the several spare drives around the house, unfortunately only afterwards did I discover that they all were too old to connect the motherboard. I ended up just purchasing a USB optical drive, since it was only about $5 bucks more than one to fit in the computer and would save me the hassle of hooking it up, plus would be use-able on laptops without cd drives.