Rip the base game + patches in a zip rather than the bare CD for preservation…
Right now the CDs are basically plastic waste inside more waste, sealed inside more waste.

“Physical games” that dont run until patched with 5 day one patches because the game needed to be shipped with something.
Or you get a code lol

Whoopsie ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

25% less revenue is 25% revenue lost. I don’t think the shareholders would welcome that.

And not indexed due to crawling bot-decisions

Also by the Archive Warrior project: https://tracker.archiveteam.org/reddit/#show-all

And that is why I criticized the decisions every time I read about it. Every time I got mixed responses but ultimately got a higher downvote ratio.
Also a reason I participate(d) in the archive warrior reddit project.