@Bettyboop55, The lack of optical drives from the latest offerings of computers makes me a bit annoyed too. Because it seems as if "downloads" are being forced down our collective throats. I'm at an age now where I like "things to stay the same" and get cranky if they change too rapidly. Must be a sign of my generation at this point. I'm not as flexible in terms of Change as I used to be when I was younger. My parents were born during the nineteen thirties so I was around during the 70s and the advent of the personal computing age. So basically, I'm sitting on the cusp of the border between pre-PC generation and the PC generation where we weren't so familiar with technology as our descendants. In fact, I was happy with 5 1/4" disks and reel-to-reel but the needs of storage became restricted in those mediums so we're now onto optical discs after experimenting with 3.5" floppies and now we have flash memory (SSDs) It boggles the mind. But it seems as though the game companies are going to drag us kicking and screaming in to the "download" age. And I, for one, refuse to go quietly. I want my games on a "purely physical medium"; that is substantial and tactile - a physical object that I know will not leave my possession.
I look at the younger generation (those who are in their early thirties, twenties, teens and even single-digit-age children) and see how fast they pick up computer stuff...and I'm sitting here going "How...What...Where..."? In the years before 70s if you weren't in the computing field, you didn't use computers very often; and it wasn't a thing to go home and use a home computer. There just weren't any around. Any computers you found were in the realm of business; statistics and those who were programming and these things weren't "portable" by any stretch of the imagination. In fact @Featherbelle (my wife) who is only six years younger than me, is more computer literate than I am. When she has to do something in terms of finding computer problems and fixing them...she's quicker to get it done...while I'm sitting here going "What... HELP!"
And what's scary is that it's just going to grow from here...in leaps and bounds. The AI of computers is starting to grow and it's a guess as to where we'll be twenty years from now (if I'm still around).
If I find my pre-2012 disc, I'll go after the rest of the CDs on Amazon.ca and at least if I choose to go back to 1.67; the option will be there to still play all my game rather than just a portion of it.
