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Old 11-06-18, 18:43   #13
Kirishima
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Originally Posted by Dustie View Post
Back in the day it was the standard way to distribute pirated games, because portable data storage was expensive and the internet was slow like a turtle. Piracy groups had to strip down games from "unnecessary" content like music and mostly FMVs to make them as light as possible to transfer over dial-up or put on compilation discs. But pirate copies distributed on CD-Rs (but sometimes also on actual baked discs!) were usually fully-fledged.
I know that. I was just making a gripe of how much of a cheapskate the guy was when compared to other people in other parts of the world where legitimate copies were not easy to come by.

<ChildhoodMemory>
Me: Hey (insert name here), I want to play Ghost Bear's Legacy.
That Guy: Sorry, it was in my old computer. I don't have it anymore.
<\ChildhoodMemory>

And just like Mechwarrior 2, its (fake) expansion, Ghost Bear's Legacy, was all over the place at the time, but instead he opts for a pirated version that he borrowed from a friend IIRC.

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