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I don't know if this goes here. Many years ago (roughly 2004-2005), I bought a physical copy of teh first Victoria game. I still have it, but due to the laptop having a damaged CD unit, I can't install it (and I can't buy a new one of either, money is tight). Is there any way to get a copy through the digital store? Other than buying it, I mean.
 
I'm afraid not - when you buy a physical edition of those older games there is no entitlement to a second download copy as well.

Can you perhaps can borrow a USB DVD drive from somewhere?
 
I'm afraid not - when you buy a physical edition of those older games there is no entitlement to a second download copy as well.

Ok, thanks, I was almost sure that was the case, but never hurt to ask.

Can you perhaps can borrow a USB DVD drive from somewhere?

I can try, in any case I think that I can spare the money for buying it on Gog.

In case you can't find a solution, GoG currently has Victoria on sale for under $3

Thanks, I didn't know.
 
If your laptop is running Windows 10, you can't use the CD anyway. Windows 10 doesn't support the on-disc DRM on the original disc, so it won't install. I too bought the physical copy, and had to re-purchase the game as a download. Last I saw, GOG was selling the "Civil War Edition", which includes the base game and the AHD expansion. You then need to pick up the final expansion separately.
 
If your laptop is running Windows 10, you can't use the CD anyway. Windows 10 doesn't support the on-disc DRM on the original disc, so it won't install. I too bought the physical copy, and had to re-purchase the game as a download. Last I saw, GOG was selling the "Civil War Edition", which includes the base game and the AHD expansion. You then need to pick up the final expansion separately.

Windows 7, and given that EU2 (old Gog giveaway) and Hoi2 (a very cheap steam code on ebay) work great here, I think that I won't have problems either way. And I was asking for the first Victoria, not the second.
 
Sorry, I missed or misread that it was the first game, not the second.

The on-disc DRM means that you can't just transfer the files via network connection or thumb drive, it has to be either from the CD or a newly purchased download. The original Victoria game should occasionally go on sale for a ridiculously low price, if you're willing to wait, otherwise it's merely "inexpensive".
 
I don't know if this goes here. Many years ago (roughly 2004-2005), I bought a physical copy of teh first Victoria game. I still have it, but due to the laptop having a damaged CD unit, I can't install it (and I can't buy a new one of either, money is tight). Is there any way to get a copy through the digital store? Other than buying it, I mean.
Not advice, but the strategic business model of the recording industry is always to "upgrade" tech in order to resell the same old trash (or good stuff) in a shiny new box. Sometimes (as with DVD "tech") to zero benefit except to the industry. So you're likely out of luck. Perhaps try eBay for a cheap second-hand CD unit or external CD player?

Also: sympathy. Your circumstances remind me of my old Master of Orion 2 CD that one day literally exploded into hundreds of razor-sharp shards in the CD player, fortunately damaging only the CD player rather than the human player;). Unfortunate, because I was willing and able to buy another copy after replacing the CD player, but it was long "out of print" and recent digital downloadable "versions" were never the same :(. So be careful about that if and when you get some money, perhaps first ask PDS if they'll have a "free weekend" on it so you can verify the download version is a "true duplicate" as you would expect?

Finally - and I have no idea if this will work - a long shot. (I'm assuming without checking that a Vic1 download exists). You might ask another player (perhaps a Victoria 2 streamer or someone else to whom you've publicly been nice?) to buy a downloadable Vic1 copy for you as a gift? (Steam has a facility to buy as a gift for a friend, but being a privacy geek and internet-friendless, or perhaps just douchebag, I've never used it:)) Show them this response so they know it wasn't your idea. Or ask PDS if they will give you one as a reward for some beta testing work on Vic 3 given you're presumably an expert on Vic1, or something else they're looking for people to do for them. Or even Steam, similarly. You just might get lucky. But if you do get lucky, don't tell anyone (unless your benefactor wishes you to!).