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Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (build 2600) SP 2.0ĬPU 0: Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ Now, back to my occasional lurking for another year.Extra logfile - please post this as an attachment with your post. I don't have room in my house for 240 games worth of discs, let alone the packaging. We're now approaching the point where any game that's old enough to not feature any kind of one-time single-use activation is old enough to be sold DRM-free on GoG - which means you can share them still, and often a lot easier and faster than on a physically large, slow CD.Īnyhoo, I live in New Zealand, where even with our moderately crap internet, Steam still ends up significantly cheaper in most cases (and for publishers who enact regional pricing (those fags) I have a reliable friend in the USA who buys them for me.) The last game I ever bought on a disc was the Final Fantasy XI: Wings of the Goddess expansion in 2007, which I got duped on by both the retailer and Square-Enix (long story short: the physical copy I bought wasn't compatible with my game with no warning on the store or packaging.) I've been using Steam since January '05, and now and apparently have 218 games on it. For a while that was a cornerstone of console gaming, but with the proliferation of Xbox Live and PSN, you can't pass those games around now either.
Art books and things almost always ship in PDF form with digital downloads.Īs for this mystical freedom you speak of, a significant number of games (should I say publishers) nowadays require some form of online activation even if it's a one-time affair, so that you can't share games with friends any more. I'd rather not have cloth maps and figurines that I'll likely also lose because I'm not a collector and just don't care enough about them. I don't miss packaging and physical junk but that's subjective - I only ever buy collector's edition things from people I really want to support. Guess how many times I've had to repurchase it through GoG.
As a relevant example, I went through three physical copies of Arcanum due to discs being damaged, lost or stolen and lost by idiot friends.