If you buy a game from any of the major publishers these days, and it comes in a DVD case which does more harm to the discs than it protects them, who do you think should foot the bill for replacing these discs when they crack? According to the publishers, you should.

Poor article about a none existant problem. I have Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge from 2000 and 2001 respectively with both in tip top condition in these DVD cases. Bitter rant by a pathetic man...

My advice would be to just invest in a caselogic style CD organizer. Free up some desk space and keep your discs clean.

never suffered the problem myself but ye i know what you mean. still even if it affects i out of every 100 people it should be changed to something better.

In responce to this.

(I would give that to you in dollars, but you yanks just don't have anything that rolls off the tongue quite as smoothly as "seven pounds fifty"...)

I would refer you to Southpark episode #303 where Chefs parents are basicaly telling a story of being stalked by the Loch Ness monster that wants "tree fiddy" or three dollars and fifty cents, instead of listening to the kids warnings about the Succubus that wants to marry Chef.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Succubus

So "Seven Fiddy" if not equal should be close enough.

I know not if this is legal or not - but hell it is a very very good solution:

1- The best thing I am using till now is the amazing-wonder making - NO CD/DVD CRACK!!! don't get me wrong - I have the original DVD/CD but I am so sick of having them replaced all time and everytime I want to play a different game. now the question is why doesn't EA and other companies provide these files? most online games need real S/N to work online anyways.
the bad part is that everytime you update a game you will need to find another working crack - which usually comes out only few days later
2- 120% Alcohol make wonderful dvd images which can be mounted from the hard drives (with some games it doesnt work).
the down side of it is that it takes a lot of space on your HD unless you know how to hex the image to leave only the needed files
3- I had once a software called Fox something, what it did was just make a small image of the needed files when you run the game for the first time and next time you run the game it will automatically run the images - vwalla no need for dvd/cd - in other words it makes a no cd crack image.
the empty half of the glass is that you will still need the cd when you update the game (not always) and somehow, manytimes, it was a bit hard for me to know what the hell it wanted from me... doesnt work on all games!

but - wouldn't it be nice to have a dvd/cd changer for say - 25, 50 cds/dvds for PC? you will never have to change dvds again!

hell i mostly play source based games so who needs CD's. i love steam.

interesting
should start getting this habbit - yet, well, I can't imagine any source based game defeating Battlefiels II ?! is there?!

lmfao this article made me laff, u just suck, go back playing with legos. god

WTF I DO TO DESERVE THAT.

On Response to the Dvd Changer for PC they do make one that I know of from Sony.

Sony® VAIO® VGP-XL1B2 Media changerVGP-XL1B2

Altho at 800 dollars or less its pretty steep in cost to value ratio.

Edit just checked recent price and its 500 us from sony prob cheaper elsewhere so getting more reasonable in price.

You were the last one posting at the time Elki made his eloquent reply.

Is there any reason why you take such comments seriously at all? I know I don't. Use the "ignore" button. This is the reason why it exists.

i kenw it wasn't directed at me really. i just get annoyed at people who reply the last person regardless of wether or not they want to talk to that person. a response like mine will get the message across.

I think Sony wanted us users to do something else with it.
all I asked for is a simple changer - like the changer in cars or on my regular cheep stereo system. nothing fancy like the one sony is presenting.
and let's face it - sony sells usesrs BRAND more than anything else... all their products are over priced.

It doesn't get "the message" across at all. It makes it look like you didn't understand that he was referring to the article.


p.s. He was referring to the article, it was not directed at you.

Funny and yet sad. Much like the ULA, the response is along the lines of yes, it did break and we are sorry. Please come again.

Now all those people making "backups" and using emulation software to play games start to make a case.

And yes I have messed up discs in the past but by scratching and not actual breakage.