Re: 75% of new games purchased were downloaded

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.

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.

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.