| your mother said: If you wanted to play a game that required 23 floppies, you had two options:
Swapping can be a pain, I admit - that's not the issue here. The issue is many of you make it like swapping is such a bad thing when in fact it's been around forever - and we lived with it and still played the games we wanted. |
I totally agree that disk swapping can be a pain. However, I see you're talking about installing games. I think that's a bit different since you really only have to install that once. Yes, 5 disks (cd's) of installing F.E.A.R is a freaken pain in the butt, but once you do that it's over and you only have to use one disk to play the game until you have to re/uninstall it.
Kind of related, I'm assuming you ment Half-Life 2 in your post, but I thought that the retail version only came in CD, but I'm not 100% sure on that as I went the downloadable way and had to wade through a crapload of 'pre-loads' (forgot how many there were).
