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lew...@cs.ualberta.ca (Michael Lewchuk) wrote:

>scrt...@ezl.com (Erik Stephans) writes:

>>In article <43d031$3...@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com>, <Unknown> says...
>>>I'm getting really sick of this CD only shit.  Is this supposed to
>>>suppress piracy or something?  

>CD is the new medium.  It's better, faster, and cheaper.  It's supposed to
>be an improvement on technology, like HD floppies were.  It's not designed
>specifically to inconvenience you or anyone else.  While some games install
>to the hard drive, others can be played from hard drive, CD, or a combination
>of the two, meaning that people who don't want to install 500Mb of games on
>their hard drives can save that space by playing off of the CD.

>>>Software companies think that coming
>>>out with games on CD-ROM only will increase their sales, because

>Some people like CD only games because installation is FAR easier and FAR
>more reliable than floppies.  I've never had problems with a CD being "bad"
>or "scratched" or demagnetized. :)  I have had assorted problems with floppies
>such as bent or damaged metal disk plates (on 3.5"s), bad sectors, and even
>screwed up disks.

No, no, and no again.  You missed the point.  I am not against CD-ROMS
as a medium.  I am against key disk copy protection (meaning the CD
ROM has to be in the CD drive at all times during game play).  Now, if
the game, fully installed, would require 600+ megs of hard disk space
then it seems reasonable that most people dont have that much space on
their hard disks to devote to one game.  But just incase someone wants
to play that same game 5 years from now, when everybody has 100 Gig
hard drives, they should make installing the entire game an option.

And if you're laughing about us all having 100 gig drives in 5 years,
don't.   I can remember in 1990, when my buddy was installing his 40
meg drive, he scoffed when I said in a few years everyone will be
talking about hard drives in gigabytes instead of megabytes.  He now
denies ever doing it :).