Re: Returning player needs help


"lcpltom" <lcpltom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Feb 12, 9:34 am, "Xymmie" <xym...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"lcpltom" <lcpl...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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I am at a loss here.

I can't understand the loss of the original game discs. I know most
computer games now requires the disc to be in the drive just to play
it. Blizzard games seem to be the exception to this rule. But still,
once my games are installed or I am done playing them, they go back
into the original packaging and on a shelf above my computer. There
they sit until I either need them again, or decide I don't want them
anymore and dispose of them on ebay.

I simply can't imagine going to retrieve a game and not finding the
discs for it.

And yet it happens all the time. There are all kinds of ways and reasons
for misplacing one of a set of disks.

Xymmie

But it doesn't happen to me all the time. When I am done with a disc
it goes back where it belongs. Anytime I need something I know where
to find it.

Well, this probably happens only when there's only one person in the house
playing computer games. When there are multiple users, it's very easy to
have disks moved from one location to another, and not returned to their
"proper place". (This happened tons of times when my kids were still at
home.)

Even now, I have several different places where I store disks: shelves in
the spare bedroom, two cabinets near my new desktop, a couple of towers near
my old desktop, some shelves and drawers in the other spare bedroom, and
several smaller cd racks strategically placed here and there. The disks are
probably all locatable, but they're not necessarily grouped together, and
one of the kids may have said, "Mom, do you mind if I take [game] back with
me?"


I know the discs themselves aren't required to run WoW once it is
installed like most other PC games do. But its still a $40 purchase
and I can't imagine taking the discs out of the computer and
scattering them off to who knows where. Put them back in the box and
put the box on a shelf somewhere, or buy a CD organizer and keep all
your discs in it so they are never lost. Just take a few seconds and
put things away when you are done with them.

Yeah, well, some of us are pretty random in our tidiness. And I would need
an extremely sizeable CD organizer to hold all of the disks for all of the
games. Some things are *much* easier said than done. Note: here in our
office building I have stored multitudinous game boxes dating back years.
If I wanted to find the disks for a particular older game, it would still
take me considerable time, even though the boxes of boxes have list labels
on the outside, identifying the games inside.

Xymmie


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