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Subject: Re: 2024 c.s.i.p.g.action Holiday Give-Away Day #00000008
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 08:44:33 -0800
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On 12/11/2024 12:20 AM, Xocyll wrote:
> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
> entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
> say:
> 
>> On Mon, 09 Dec 2024 08:35:00 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 08 Dec 2024 18:26:51 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
>>
>>>>>>>> * Baldurs Gate Enhanced Edition
>>>>>>>> https://www.gog.com/en/game/baldurs_gate_enhanced_edition
>>
>>>>>> I borrowed a co(lleague/worker)'s original that were on like six CD-ROMs
>>>>>> around Y2K. It was an OK game. I will pass. I am more interested in the
>>>>>> newer one.
>>
>>> I have the DVD version. One disc. Made the whole thing far more playable.
>>
>> I had the five-disc version, which came in a cardboard sleeve with
>> spots for six disk held together with glue that got all over the
>> discs. I remember being royally pissed off that Bioware (or Interplay)
>> cheaped out by using a cardboard disc holder rather than splurging for
>> a multi-disk jewel-case.
> 
> I have the same version.   I just opened the box, and the disks are
> spotless, yours must have come with French Glue.
> (A play on the whole American "these colors don't run" thing, presumably
> their glue doesn't either.)
> 
>> The six-disk version that came out later was the one that included the
>> expansion disc... which now makes me wonder: was that the plan from
>> the start? Even in 1997, was Bioware holding back content with the
>> plan on selling it later? They truly were a developer ahead of their
>> time!
>>
>> I still have my original discs. The cardboard sleeve is long gone, and
>> good riddance!
> 
> I think they knew they would put out an expansion if the game sold well,
> and they made a cd holder with space for it just in case.
> 
More likely the company that made those cardboard sleeves didn't make 5 
slot wallets for discs and the game developers didn't want to pay more 
for a custom job.

-- 
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.