Pedro Quaresma wrote:
>
> I'd say yes. Definitely yes for me. Original floppies are so easy to find
Easy to find? Over here, rare games are rare, disks only or not.
> You can get backups everywhere, and most of the times you probably have one
> handy yourself, so why worry? :)
Not the point -- if it's rare, *nobody* has copies. Which is why I try
to collect them -- to make copies before the software is lost forever.
> >But the game is infinitely more interesting to *play* than it is to look
> >at the manual...? That is the entire point the manual was created for,
> >right?
>
> No? >:) If it were, Origin could have sold their games with regular paper
> maps and stuff. No trinkets or special editions.
Yes, but you still need the software. Trinkets are way cool, I agree,
but the software is the entire point they were created in the first
place. Otherwise they could've just sold books with a little pouch of
stuff attached to each book. Would we be collecting those if it were
the case? (hint: no ;-)
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