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Haven't got one, and can't think of anything I could possibly use one for today. They're a distant memory now.

I bought my current PC in 2014 and it has a CD/DVD drive. If I were to buy a new PC today I would again buy a CD/DVD drive. I have some old games on CDs/DVDs and I also have some stuff backed up on DVDs, before I switched to simply using hard drives as back ups.

Yes, my desktop computer has a disc drive. I still have a bunch of old stuff (games, videos, old linux distros from when I was experimenting with those, etc.) on disks that I don't want to lose access to.

My laptop, which I mainly use just for notes in class, doesn't have a disk drive. I tend to transfer files away from that via the cloud, or USB drive, so I don't need to install games on it.

I have two gaming pcs at home.

One is my 1 year old desktop I build myself. I decided to skip on the drive and there isnt a way to put in my new case.

Reason is because my second pc is laptop which i got in 2013 and it does have dvd.

I might have used it once in 3.5 years of having the laptop. and not even for game but for a movie i got from a friend.

All my games on dvds, with exception of 10 games I took home, are back in my parents home in Poland, half a world away. Never really going to play them anymore, at least from dvd (

and those 10 games i took? I repurchased couple already on gog cause it was just easier than installing from dvds (baldur's gate)

I should correct myself, I'd say I have about 150 DVDs and 50 CDs. Don't know exactly how old they are, but I'd say on average at least about 7+ years. Last time I was burning something (roughly 2 month ago IIRC, an audio CD for my father into his car stereo), it worked afterwards without problem. But I am well aware that most of them will eventually go into trash. But it's no big deal. They were always quite cheap.

I had one to start off with just because I wanted to see how much I could cram into the small space, but i now only use an external when needed.
Frankly the way things have gone I'd not bother all together.
Unfortunately a slow Aussie internet and way overpriced GOG titles, with unfortunately no real huge multiplayer community or titles to go with all add up to swapping discs to enjoy old titles I already own.
Hell if I could just add shortcuts to Galaxy pointing to titles I've installed (non gog games) I'd be bothered less with having a dvd drive.

Yes.

Nope. Built mine without one. I haven't purchased any form of physical media in quite a long time. Yes, long downloads can be a pain, but I also work full time, so I'll usually start a large download before I leave in the morning. That also includes music. I used to have an amazing collection of CDs on display. I've stored all of that and given into a streaming service.

Maybe in a slightly scornful way, just to see how well the games on Galaxy of Games 2 had aged.

I would always love the option to have an optical drive for my PC. But I think for per-built computers like notebooks, that does seem to be going away. I can't do without a earphone jack though.

I have thousands of discs - so I don't see why I shouldn't have an optical drive...

Yeah, I have one. At the point I'm at, I probably don't really need one, but I rip and burn a lot of old console games, as well as rip obscure CDs. It just is something I'm so use to having around, I think it'd annoy me more to not have one even if I didn't need it.

Yes, my PC does have a Blu-Ray Disk drive, and when I built it five years ago I bought it specifically to be able to watch BDs on my PC. What I didn't know at that time was that in order to do that, I needed a special BD application, and all of them were more expensive than an actual BD player would have been. A friend gifted me one for my birthday which didn't really work for quite some time, and while it mostly works today, it has also become free several years ago. So, I do use the drive to watch BDs occasionally, although more often I use streaming services. It became quite clear to me that the industry doesn't want people to watch BDs on a PC (probably for anti-piracy reasons), so I don't buy a lot of them.

I also use it to rip audio CDs, which I usually put on a shelf afterwards and rarely ever touch again.

Occasionally I do use it to install an old game from disk, but if the disk is required to play I either rip an image and mount it in a virtual drive or re-buy the game on gog, if possible.

Yes i do as besides games on CD/DVD I also tend to use my PC to listen to music and watch movies.

Fun story, I used to think that there is no purpose for an optical derive as it seamed i didn't use it anymore. When i got a new rig without one i noticed from time to time that i wanted to install an old game or put in a movie from my collection but couldn't.

An optical drives today are like stairs in a sky scraper. You might not use them every day but they sure come in handy from time to time.