Had I contained my temper those 24 years ago i still would have my retail cd today. But that was not to be. So i'm throwing in my 2 cents and hoping GoG gives me a second shot at the game. BUG FREE PLS :)
This is a classic love-hate relationship. The original game release was so buggy it drove me up the wall. In my case a meltdown came when loading a save with a completed mission - that resulted in getting mission failed and doing the mission all over again. Rage quit at its finest... I literally broke the CD into pieces. Not my finest moment but i'm a gamer through and through.
I managed to complete the Dominion side I chose to play first and roughly half of Federation campaign. The game was fun and i loved playing it, when not fighting its bugs. I absolutely adored briefings done by both Marc Alaimo (Dukat) and Jeffrey Combs (Weyoun). Despite bugs, fighting ships was quite fun, especially when commanding the Defiant. It had generally nice graphics, good music and offered the chance to pick several favourite characters (such as Jadzia Dax, Kira, Worf, Sisko) as ship commanders. Hell they even threw in a well known axx hxxx: admiral Alynna Nechayev. Plus, after German satelite channel SAT1 was removed from my cable TV I lost the possibility to see the last 2 seasons of DS9. So playing Dominion Wars was my way of filling in the blanks (remember the Internet was not so common yet 25 years ago).
So, that's why I have a huge sentiment towards this game, and I want a second chance at it.