• napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    Just a quick reminder that discs that you burn yourself at home do degrade pretty quickly, much faster than pressed discs. I personally have had burned discs that failed after approx. 6 years. It can happen even faster if you use low-quality discs. Even pressed discs can fail after 20 years if you are unlucky.

    Using 2 big HDDs (2 for redundancy) full of your installers might be safer in the long run and also easier to manage and backup.

    https://digital-archivist.com/how-long-do-dvds-last-and-cds

  • 58008@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Witcher 3 hard copies required activation to your GOG account before they could work. Hitman (2016) was 70% locked behind the worst DRM in human history, but they sold it on their store until they were pressured by customers not to.

    And Devotion still ain’t ‘preserved’ because the CCCP hivemind told them not to have it on their site, and they obeyed instantly.

    GOG can suck all the dicks with that self-righteous bullshit.

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      3 months ago

      So your examples for why they’re bad are something they did a decade ago and something they did because the alternative was losing their entire Chinese market.

      You’re scraping the barrel. GOG must be doing things right if this is all you can come up with.