» Thu May 03, 2012 1:00 pm
I have one copy. It lives in one of the two optical drives on my game PC, and rarely comes out. I also have only one copy of Morrowind, and no more than one copy of any other game I've ever bought. I don't need "backups."
I have never had a CD or DVD fail, be it game, music, or film. I've rarely even had a need to wipe one off. Part of it is probably the fact that there are no kids in the house. But I'm very careful about how I handle them, and this, I think, is because I grew up with vinyl phonograph records (I have a modest collection of classical LPs dating back as far as the late 50s.)
On the other hand, I've had hard drives fail regularly. My Mac (my "work" system) gets backed up hourly. My PC (my "play" system) doesn't get that kind of attention, but it gets done occasionally.