It's pretty standard to do that duplication for games on CD/DVD because seek times are so long. It probably just got carried over as the "obviously correct" way of doing things, since HDDs are like DVDs if you squint a bit
I had assumed the practice started to die off when installing games became dominant over streaming from the disc even on consoles. Seems I was wrong!
The game does ship on disc for console, no?
I had assumed the practice started to die off when installing games became dominant over streaming from the disc even on consoles. Seems I was wrong!