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Jun 12, 2006, 03:50 PM
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If the game requires data to be read from the "Play Disc", then the reason is fairly obvious. Otherwise its because the game assumes that "Hey, this person INSTALLED the game, so they must want to PLAY it", and as we all know, most games require the CD to be in the drive to verify that "Yes, little Derek has a legal version of Mathland 3: The Quest for Prime Numbers", or whatever game is installed.
If the game does not need data to be streamed from the CD/DVD (As which installtion usually takes care of), then its a simple anti-piracy issue.
Although I suspect the first games to do this were to genuinely fuck with thier customers, some guy in marketing was like "They they think they're so smart with thier 3D FX Voodo Cards and thier 3GB Hard Drives... well I'll show them!".
But as Grawl said: Why complain if you can Mount over the problem.
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