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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh MAN. I forgot about those times, hand typing in a 36 character CD key that was spat out by a dot matrix printer with questionable typeset legibility…

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

And importing foreign copies because they sold for cheaper in other countries. I still have a Korean box copy of Call of Duty 2. After buying one, my household needed a second so that I could play at the same time as my sibling, and didn't want to spend a whole $50 for the privilege. They would even send you a copy of the key in email while you waited on the physical box to show up, because the importers knew what they were doing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I also may have had a Malaysian CD key or two in my time 😅