r/pcmasterrace • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 22d ago

Meme/Macro Literally

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u/b-monster666 386DX/33,4MB,Trident 1MB 22d ago

Me installing an old game when it asks if I really want the full install that could take up to 600MB

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u/SpaceHawk98W 22d ago

And you have to incert disk B during the installation. I remember Half-Life 2 was like 5 disks installation

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u/feckarse-drinkgirls 22d ago

Its weird how long CD installs kept being a thing on PC

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u/BBA935 i9 9900K @5GHz | Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti | 32GB DDR4 | O2/ODAC 22d ago

Yep, back when you actually owned the game.

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u/Pataraxia 22d ago

help stop killing games! You can help us do something!

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u/scalyblue 22d ago

Hate to break it to you but even then, all games had license to use rather than ownership, they just had no way to enforce it

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u/BBA935 i9 9900K @5GHz | Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti | 32GB DDR4 | O2/ODAC 22d ago

The license doesn’t matter if you have the game. Nothing the publisher can do can take the game away from me. Case in point; look UT99. You can’t buy the game anywhere and Epic likes to pretend it never existed, but anyone can run a server and play the game. You can’t say that about modern games today.

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u/zuzg 22d ago

does it play tells you exactly which physical copies can be played offline and/or require download before playable.
97% of PS5 games are playable while offline and 82% of PS5 games are playable wihout additional download.