Sell the game for 49 EUR, Physical Release, and a good old Civilopedia printed instruction. DVD?

[Lazy sweeper]

Clearly the answer is video games on vinyl.

At this point I'd rather write it down on a separate book, and have to manually type it back into the computer like
the old C64 magazines with games written in pure C (or was it? Assembly perhaps?), I made SuperMaria this way, later called Giana...
It would be a lot better for preservation as you would also memorize parts of the code.

 

[Lazy sweeper]

I like printed manuals. But the game on a DVD? No. I like digital download and dont really care if that gets lost. I have got a bunch of original boxed C64 and Amiga games in the storage. They are no use anymore although there are classics like the original Railroad Tycoon.

Ps5 guys loves their collections on DVD, and have the privilege they can resell the game if they don't like it enough, which creates
the opportunity for a secondhand market also. The old distribution method is still working, has been up for years, and in whichever Mall or megaelectronic store
you walk in, there is still a portion dedicated to games and homeconsoles, softwares, etc.

Look at what is now happening with Win 11... It's basically not your personal computer anymore... It's an Xbox machine, which works only
with Online Service. PCs are not made with physical CD or DVD drive anymore, yet, how would you burn your Musical band CD master without one?
Or the Marriage DVD work you just did?
You need to keep an obsolete piece of equipment up and running these days or else it's impossible to do the most basic stuff we grown up
believing it was the norm.

Games on DVD is just one of those. And without these, anyone can see what the StopKillingGames campaign has been warning us for the past two years.
Games are vanishing. No-one is preserving the digital copies.

Civilization 3 on Steam is broken, missing assets, the whole second expansion with TethurKHAN scenario is broken.
Very good job at preserving indeed. If I didn't have the second expansion CD myself I was screwed.

You don't care if that gets lost? It's ok, but let us choose for ourselves if it's the case it needs to be saved also.
This isn't about your ability to preserve your digital copy. Don't be ridiculous.

2k-Firaxis is now fine, but what would happen if an enlightened individual like the ATARI Ceo would buy it all up and do to the franchise what has been
done to Railroad Tycoon? And then move on, and decide to delist all of its previous games because now they changed "strategy"
Do you realise the risks of all of this??? We are all acting on the good faith of some remote server and companies will to keep it up...