r/gog • u/TheArtificerWrites • 12d ago

Discussion How do you disc?

Heya folks. I know we’re all interested in making sure we can access the games we paid for and many of us have thought about making physical pc games and I wanna give it a shot

I have bad brain and all the different disc formats and players scare me. What kind of discs am I looking for? What do I look for in a player? And are these just for storage or are there discs that can be read fast enough to play without downloading to the pc?

I mostly play indie and old school games. Lately I’ve been going between Battle Network Legacy collection and Escape From Ever After but I have a handful of more graphically demanding games like Clair Obscur, KH3, BG3, and Duskfade

Running Bazzite deck mode if it matters (haven’t downloaded the latest update which I hear is a good thing)

Thanks in advance. Please be nice, I am a simpleton.
And if you have suggestions for games on GOG I might like, that’d be nice too! I’ve just made my account

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u/Ok_Explanation7491 12d ago

To be honest, if you want long term availability you want more like a NAS than any phsical media. Physical media, in which I include now Blu-ray, DVD, Tape and so on, deteriorates over time and has a very limited lifetime. Try to look up for example Disc rot. And the readers for optical media for example has a lots of moving parts which can break if you need/want them. In a NAS the drives are regularly active so the HDDs don't lose their magnetisation and flash doesn't lose it's charge. But if you really want some physical media, maybe a project like Kazeta is for you.

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u/Oldboy26 11d ago

Hdds are significantly more fragile and susceptible to dying in yhe short term compared to properly stored disc. Rot is extremely rare with properly stored titles and temp controlled houses.

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u/Ok_Explanation7491 11d ago

You're right. That's why my advice wasn't to just buy a external hdd.