I think you’re the first person to actually get the point. It’s all about shelf appeal. If the game cases were super small, you wouldn’t ever see them on the game shelf in the store. They have to market the game somehow and make them easy to find on the shelf.

To troll. full stop.

Microprose, that takes me back. I miss mechwarrior 3 :’(

Or just buy the games digitally, physical media is old school and irrelevant. =)