Playing games is all about having fun, and it is not fun to spend more than a couple of minutes on finding the CD in order to play... And my rather silent PC is not very silent at all with a cd or dvd in the drive.
And if I dont find the disc, then what? Perhaps I just cant find it for the rest of the day, then I probably just get tired of playing and end up uninstalling it, perhaps for good. Finding something else to do, like playing with my girlfriend (no cd required, ever)
Usually I get a fixed exe, no-cd or whatever for all my games, if I can find one and the game requires the CD in the drive. And I buy all my games! But I would hesitate to buy a game if it had an impossible copyprotection because it removes all the fun when you just cant find the CD right away... And it is tedious to put in and take out, it makes a lot of noise and it is just to much annoyance
I dont mind copyprotections as such, but with things like "uncrackable" starforce or simpler things like no available no-cd patch to be found anywhere, I dont buy the game... Period!
SHIII was my first, and probably last exception to that rule because I havent played SHIII for 2 months only because I could not find the dvd for over a week! Feels like I have lost my "need" to play it now... (But hey! Guess what, instead I reinstalled CMBO to have at least something to do! )
I have all of the Illiushin-2 titles too... but I could never even start Pacific Fighter until I got hold of a no-cd patch!!! At least that crack saved me from returning the game, and for ever losing faith in UBI
Besides, if I cant backup my original game disc, then its is a violation aginst the law, It is my legal right to be able to do a backup...
Just my 2 öre.. please dont flame me as a piracy defender, thank you..