Re: 75% of new games purchased were downloaded

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 08:27:39 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>

    [But honestly, I thought people would complain more
     about exposing the _game boxes_ to bright sunlight.
     Those are precious treasures!]

>
I just assumed like any normal person playing a single player game you
would have dl'd a no-cd crack, and the box and it's contents would
remain out of sight and out of reach of the nasty burny sky goblin.
>

>
I actually made surprisingly little use of no-CDs with games. It
wasn't that I never used them, but -given the size of my library- most
games I just used the optical disk. It helped that all of them had
been transferred to neatly-organized CD-folios (conveniently within
arm's reach of the PC), and that I tended to play one game at a time,
so swapping wasn't that much of an issue.

It wasn't the swapping, it was the constant spinning up of the disc
which sometimes damaged it (not only causing it to misread for dame
verification but also making future installs impossible.)

Some of those copy protect and verify schemes spun the disc up over an
over and over, with lots of nasty scuffing sounds.

Sadly, most of the boxes were discarded shortly after purchase. I just
don't have the space to store them all. It was only for a handful of
favorites (of which the Ultima games predominate) that I kept the
packaging.

Yeah I have a few games in box, the aforementioned Daggerfall, since it
was one of my favorite games of all time, the City of Heroes boxes, and
some of the hard plastic clamshell boxes cause they're small and hard
and protect the discs and such well, while taking minimal space.

And for the longest time, I didn't hide them from Sunny McSunalot, the
aforementioned burny sky-goblin. Fortunately, the boxes weren't in
direct sunlight, so the damage was minimal.

Well that's good.

Xocyll