[russellrv]

You may as well put your real cd in than use mini-images.

Its takes about the same amount of time, the only difference is that you lower the risk of the disc getting damaged.

Crackers are just lazy (Not that their getting paid), its alot easier to create a mini-image than crack the exe/dlls files etc. (I would probably do the same if I was cracking games, etc)

The reason I prefer no-cd's...

1. Just click on the icon and play the game
2. No spinning up/down of the cd-rom drive
3. No possible damage to the original discs
4. No Deamon tools/Clone CD in the task bar
5. No 4gb cd images sitting on my hard drive taking up needed space.

BTW. If this site is just for people who have their original cd/keys etc then why does it provide people with private server cracks to remove the key check for clients connecting???? hmmm

P.S. The reason why game manufacturers use cd checks is because they don't want any avarage joe being able to install the game on their pc from their mates copy and just play. Even though using a no-cd/mini image is easy for most computer literate people, most people aren't computer literate.

That's my 2 cents plus a bit more

:-)