Piracy.

[Words Of Wisdom]

Katilian said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

Advantages of Legal Purchase

1)  You get the manual.  Games often come with extra media like manuals, maps, collectible cards, and more.  Buying it legally gives you extra goodies in the case of a lot of games.

2)  No hassle of storage.  You get the game and the case so you don't have to worry about storing one or more giant .iso files on your HDD or having to burn them to DVD.

Of course, now I have the hassle of storing a physical product instead. While I do like some of the goodies and having a physical copy anyway, it is much easier for me to keep an ISO on my HDD (which I make anyway even with the games I buy) than needing to store and search for physical media whenever I want to play the game.

Plus, I can always write a pirated game out to DVD without any hassle for minimal cost anyway.

I used to create iso files of all my games as well, but that was before it became cost effective for the cost per Gb.  I ended up deleting most of them and burning copies of a lot of my games to CD/DVDs.  Threw the copies in a little binder so I could carry them around for lan parties and the like.  The next box I get/build will likely have a Tb or two of HDD space so I might go back to iso, but for now phsyical works best.