What happened to play from CD?

I remem­ber, time was, you bought a com­puter game, popped the CD in, copied the exe­cuta­bles over and then played the game. All the data stayed on the CD and you didn’t use up your whole hard drive. These days, every game demands that you install the com­plete con­tents of the CD/DVD to your hard drive and it pisses me off. It’s not like it needs to be copied to the hard drive, I’ve seen the very same games run on con­soles with­out hard dri­ves to install to and my com­puter has a faster DVD drive than most con­soles. It just annoys me to have the num­ber of games I can play at a given time limit­ted by the fact that they all demand to exist on a CD/DVD and my com­puter, espe­cially con­sid­er­ing they all demand that you have the CD/DVD in the drive while you play the game.

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