Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe?

vagullion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Makes sense to me, actually.

  It’d be an easy way to get and also store the DRM-free offline installer, in where you don’t have to permanently allocate active storage to keep the installer around.

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  • terabyterex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    burn it yourself

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Consumer burnable CD and DVD disks often have an astonishingly short storage life, especially if they are not stored very carefully. They’re not an archival medium. Competently pressed commercial (aluminum) disks meanwhile have a storage life that is near as makes no difference to infinite provided they are not physically damaged in some way.

      I’ve got tons of burned disks of pirated old games from the early aughts that don’t read anymore. This is highly annoying from a preservation standpoint as I can’t get them to play despite possessing them on disk, and they’re now unpopular enough that they’re likewise difficult to impossible to pirate again.

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      • terabyterex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        i realze now the guy was talking about backup. i thought it was for display. i knew dvds were bad foe navkup but didnt realize commercial dvds were so much better.

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