Yeah, the boxes were nice. What was NOT nice were the expansions where the game still came on CDs. I have unhappy memories of swapping thru something like 12 of 15 CDs doing a lengthly install and then one of the later CDs was slightly defective forcing me to start all over again. It might even have been <shudder> 3.5-inch floppy disks.
There's something to be said indeed for digital download, altho those have been known to fail miserably at the 99% mark, as many of us have probably experienced.
Perfect this world is not...