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"Over 100" sounds like an incredibly small number. I'm guessing most people could just buy the ones they like used for less than a few months of the subscriptio
by jasonkostempski 10y ago
"Over 100" sounds like an incredibly small number. I'm guessing most people could just buy the ones they like used for less than a few months of the subscription. Although, the concept of "used" is a bit insane when the disc is little more than a key to get to the current version of the game that just gets downloaded.
- freehunter 10y ago>the disc is little more than a key to get to the current version of the game that just gets downloaded. Hoo boy this burned me bad when I bought Half Life 2. It was 2004 and I had a dial-up connection, so I bought the DVD from the store instead of purchasing it from Steam. No way I could download that big of a game in any reasonable time. Well, it turns out the DVD I bought from the store was just an installer for Steam and a CD key, the game didn't actually come on the disc. So Christmas day, I'm attempting to download 5GB on 56k along with everyone else who just got the game that day.
- khedoros1 10y agoWhat I remember about the original release of the game was that the DVD had the game, but it was encrypted. You could pre-load it onto your machine, and when it released, they'd provide the key over Steam, and the game would decrypt. Or maybe I'm confusing that with a pre-release encrypted file that you could download ahead of time, to save the download later. I'll have to look at my disks when I get home; I was pretty sure that they had the full data for the game on them.
- BoorishBears 10y agoMS tried to embrace that fact and let CDs just be one time use keys for games and got torn to shreds for it. I lament the decision because it means you need to manually switch out disks to play different games even though all the game data is on the hard drive.
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