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Steam: If a game is not in our records
GOG: Or ours
Both: Then it doesn't exist
Me with my physical CDs of games you can't get digitally...
Just doing some napkin math, if you took Baulders Gate 3 and burned the entire game to CDs, it would require a stack of CDs around one meter tall. That's no mods, just the game.
I also did some napkin math on it and got a very different number. I don't have the game so I saw people reporting the game is 150GB on PC. CDs can store up to 700MB of data, so (150 x 1024) / 700 ≈ 219.4 but we can round that up to 220. The standard CD is 1.2mm in thickness, so 220 x 1.2mm = 264mm which is a quarter of a meter.
I'm curious how my result differed from yours.
I screwed up my units a bit and did gigabytes and megabits. You're right. It would be a little shorter than an average ruler.