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M.H. Williams
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I write about things for a living. Currently for a game dev and my personal newsletter, Stuff Worth Knowing (https://stuffworthknowing.substack.com/).
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Blood Elf Paladin has indeed been my main since TBC.
I find TBC smoothed the dungeon and raid encounter design, because at that point, they knew what they were doing. (Vanilla dungeons had almost too much variety.) Combined with dailies, it was an early example of Destiny's hangout game formula.
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HOW DARE!
(This was the expansion that made my main class, Prot Pally... uhhh... useful.)
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Megatokyo...
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Thus ends my layman's take as a physical disc collector. I'm sure someone from Blu-Ray.com has better, more thorough answers.
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If you buy any current TV series sets on Blu-Ray or DVD, lots use this last set and you should check every disc for damage.
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Finally there are these bad boys, which you'll find a ton of old DVD collections or hefty Blu-Ray TV box sets.
These will hold the disc. In fact it's dawned near impossible to remove sometimes, meaning you bend discs. But they do fall off, they sometimes crack or damage the center of the disc.
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Some other Blu-Rays have a different spindle type, but like the Xbox cases, the lower height means less travel — like pressing a button — so less chances of compression in shipping, which would mean less free discs.
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The standard Xbox cases are better in this regard because the spindle usually requires you to push up on the disc at the same time to remove it. (Some older Blu-Rays use a slightly flatter version of this spindle.)
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It's the spindles themselves. PS5/PS4 tends to be the worst, because the spindle is so tall and flexible that any compression on the center of the case will cause the disc to pop out inside.
You can test it yourself: open up a PS game case and simply press down on the spindle. Game pops right out!
I would love for someone to do an Investigative Journalism into why most disc-based games are just rattling around loose in their case when purchased brand new vs affixed to the spindle. This never happened until toward the end of the PS4 era, and now it's basically every game I feel?
