Buying Boxed Games - Important To The Gaming Experience?

Thanks to GameSpot for its 'GuestSpotting' editorial, in which a reader discusses why going to the store and buying a videogame is a vital part of his gaming experience. He argues: "When I hear talk of the future and how broadband-enabled gaming platforms will allow us to download entire games without leaving the comfortable wombs of our homes, I shudder", and sings the praises of "...a place where you can look over your collection [of game boxes] with pride, reminding you of the enemies you have defeated, the points you have scored, the races you have won, and, of course, the money that has been spent." Although the author of the editorial admits he's somewhat of "a fetishist when it comes to the corporeal aspect of the video games", are you happy with buying games that have no related physical artifacts?

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Re:Media without keys is important.

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How did you lose the keys to an installed program if you just moved the HD into another machine? You're not making any sense there. It sounds more like you want to copy the games into a new install of a computer, and just happened to have the old drive in the new computer. This will not work under any copy-protected programs that do not rely on physical media (cdrom or hardware token/dongle). I'm sure Real's TOS made this clear. Why don't you read them before you go trying to subvert the proces. I don't agree with things like this - but they are what they are. Real is a money-grabbing company. It is your own fault for handing it to them, and expecting a utopian free-software world.