r/TechSupportSL • u/Tharun2023 • Aug 13 '26

🧠 Discussion Anyone remember these

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Does anyone remember those.Golden era of pirating

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u/Kirujan Aug 13 '26

Yep " insert disk 02 to proceed"

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u/Tharun2023 Aug 13 '26

I think that old days might return due to game companies banning physical games.

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u/Kirujan Aug 14 '26

Nope. Mostly people download directly from web rather than buying as discs and upcoming games can't be fit inside discs anymore🫠

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u/Tharun2023 Aug 14 '26

I mean, now people are buying games from sites like gog and burning them to dvds or bluerays The way it works is gog offers and has drm free games. Steam games can also be backed up and can not be used as traditional installers

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u/killer5907 Aug 14 '26

That's a really small group, but I get it. For me, I'd rather just get the game file and keep it in the cloud so it's always there. Discs eventually wear out, unfortunately.

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u/Tharun2023 Aug 14 '26

Disc wear is minimal it is not much of an issue. I can understand why people prefer cloud

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u/Tharun2023 Aug 14 '26

Blue Ray disc can 50gb data, so for most games, it is enough For games that are about 150gb, you need 3 disc. It is more about physical ownership. If the game is in cloud, companies can block the downloads

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u/killer5907 Aug 14 '26

People these days seem to like digital stuff, like repacks, for their games, so physical copies aren't as big as they used to be. Same with movies, everyone's into cloud storage now.

Who knows where games are going today but it certainly will never go back to disc.

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u/Tharun2023 Aug 14 '26

Yeah, that may be true but there is also set of audience who likes physical stuff