Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs

From	Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg
Subject	Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs
Date	2011-05-19 19:29 -0400
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On Thu, 19 May 2011 23:49:30 +0200, Florian Schaetz <iryan@gmx.de>
wrote:

>And thus, Werner Punz wrote...
>
>> Just wanted to point this out also check if there has been a no cd patch
>> released. I think it was the patch to version 1.5 which removed the drm.
>
>I took me less than a minute to find all patches for The Witcher.
>Obviously, Rin doesn't have that much time. Some complaints are, sorry,
>pretty strange. I can understand that someone prefers auto-updates via
>steam, no problem here, but in this case, the patches are not really
>hard to find, so the whole "Screw it" reaction sounds more like a very,
>very, very low frustration threshold.

Well time is money to me, so yes, I do get frustrated when I go to the
vendor's site, use their recommended mirror, and it doesn't work, and
we are dealing with a four year old game that I already played
through, and I was re-loading it merely to get a feel for the theme
again (i.e. not that important).  Maybe the mirrors were fixed by the
time you tried them?  I don't know, but I think it's reasonable to
limit the amount of time I spend making a 2007 game work.

But, I did end up getting the $5 gog version, just so that I can feel
good when I run the DVD through the shredder.  I also like the fact
that I have a (pdf) version of the manual that I can actually read.
The printed version has poor "contrast" and is hard on the eyes in
anything but glaring light.

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The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-15 19:46 -0400
  Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs jnh@VictorTangoEleven.net.invalid (Jordan) - 2011-05-16 03:30 +0000
    Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-16 00:09 -0400
      Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs "Matt v3.3" <ethers.tragic@paradise.net.invalid> - 2011-05-16 20:04 +1200
        Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-16 08:36 -0400
      Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs WDS <Bill@seurer.net> - 2011-05-16 08:13 -0500
        Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-16 09:39 -0400
          Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs WDS <Bill@seurer.net> - 2011-05-16 08:58 -0500
            Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-16 10:25 -0400
        Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs mcv <mcvmcv@xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-17 08:46 +0000
        Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-17 23:08 +0200
    Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs mcv <mcvmcv@xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-17 08:44 +0000
  Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-16 23:54 -0500
    Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs mcv <mcvmcv@xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-17 08:41 +0000
  Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-17 23:07 +0200
    Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-17 18:06 -0400
      Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-18 00:12 +0200
        Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-17 18:52 -0400
          Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-18 07:54 +0200
            Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-18 09:20 +0200
              Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2011-05-18 17:25 -0400
                Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-19 10:14 +0200
                Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs "Andrew Rybenkov" <arybenkov@gmail.com> - 2011-05-19 14:53 +0400
                Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-19 13:21 +0200
                Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Frank E <fakeaddress@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-19 07:57 -0400
                Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs JAB <nochance@nohope.com> - 2011-05-19 20:29 +0100
                Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-19 17:56 -0500
                Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs JAB <nochance@nohope.com> - 2011-05-20 18:45 +0100
          Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs mcv <mcvmcv@xs4all.nl> - 2011-05-20 09:12 +0000
  Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-19 23:38 +0200
    Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Florian Schaetz <iryan@gmx.de> - 2011-05-19 23:49 +0200
      Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-19 19:29 -0400
        Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Florian Schaetz <iryan@gmx.de> - 2011-05-20 11:53 +0200
          Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-20 07:07 -0400
  Re: The Witcher 2 and why I dislike physical DVDs noman <no_m_an@zzzyahoo.yycom> - 2011-06-08 00:27 -0700

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