Disc Rot - Has this actually happened to you?

[What's His Face]

Have you ever experience the dreaded disc rot? In an age where companies are trying to force their customers to adopt the rental standard of digital download/streaming for all of their electronic entertainment (movies, music, gaming) and tout disc rot as a prime reason to abandon physical media...has disc rot ever actually happened to you?

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

Its a hoax made by Big Disc to sell more discs!

 

[dkpopman]

It's only happened to me with some CDs that I left in my old car when the temp got over 100 fahrenheit. Disc rot seems to be a little bit of an exaggerated issue. From what I've seen, as long as you store your discs indoors in climate control and run a dehumidifier if you live in a jungle, you should be fine.

Even cheap rewriteable discs that my mother made decades ago and stored in various different bad places still read fine.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Only once, but I can't say I was taking good care of it...

 

[Kremiso]

a couple of times, always Gamestop preowned thing (not so much bad shape as OP image btw);
returned as fast as i could

 

[Vardalis]

Never. Granted, I don't look at my old discs very often, but I buy used DVDs a lot and never had any with that issue regardless of the age. The bigger issue is dirt of scratches.

Edit: I even buy DVDs from a guy who keeps boxes of them baking in the sun each year at a market. Never found one rotted yet.

 

[BejitabroFZ]

It's never happened to me at all. As long as you take care of your games, keep them in their cases when not in use and don't store them in hot/humid areas then your games will survive longer than you will. Scratches, label damage & failing disc drives tend to be much bigger issues

 

[skramz]

a ripped cd i made like 14 years ago developed cd rot, my official discs are a-okay though

 

[R_Zero]

Happened once to my twisted metal 2 cd lol

 

[MegaDrive1987]

I have Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms and NWA - Straight Outta Compton on CD and they've both rotted.