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Talk to anyone who used to game in the mid-90's PC days. We were installing games off floppies for days.
Y'all ain't shit
The best was when some random issue popped up like say, Disk 3 was faulty. Good times.
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Retail copies of GTA5 come on 7 DVD discs
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The best was when some random issue popped up like say, Disk 3 was faulty. Good times.
Damn I had no idea you had to actually buy software to watch Blu-Ray movies. Nobody bundles software with a drive?
I was thinking of getting a Blu-Ray drive too since my system's hooked up to a TV, but then I think about buying a burner for backing up games on Blu-Rays, and those are still pretty expensive.
I don't know, I like owning my games in physical form. Plus, game sizes will only increase. What if soon games routinely hit over 100gb? You don't think two Blu-ray discs is simpler? Though, it doesn't make as much difference for PC'ers who are more digital downloads. But even then, in the era of data caps, it's asking a lot to download 65gb games already, and only increasing.
I found playing movies from DVD was like this for bloody ages on PC too, but then again maybe it's just because I was younger and my Dad always had some shite software for playing DVDs.
jadedm17
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Will you back this up by buying this? If not then isn't your point just as silly? This is pretty funny if you ask me.
smudge
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Some companies already do this, Autodesk sell retail copies of AutoCAD on USB drives. The install files weigh in at around 70gb so it's pretty much a no brainer. Not sure about the costs but as the software is very expensive I'm not sure it matters.
anothertech
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Dat disk cover artwork tho
Vulcano's assistant
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Wait a minute, this doesn't redeem on Steam?
Windom Earle
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My body is ready for 7.
Which Rockstar game is Steamworks at retail ?
Vulcano's assistant
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Never bought one at retail, to be honest. (well only the Xbox versions, but that doesn't have anything to do with this)
Alex_Mexico
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I'm confused. How the hell did the Xbox 360 version of GTAV managed to fit in two DVDs? I know the PC version looks way better but still how did we go from 2 to 7???
Hell, even FFXIII which almost filled a PS3 Blu Ray managed to fit in "only" 3 Xbox 360 DVDs!
What the hell happened?
Hell, even FFXIII which almost filled a PS3 Blu Ray managed to fit in "only" 3 Xbox 360 DVDs!
What the hell happened?
The PC version has much higher quality textures and whatnot. Those take up a lot of space.
Aizu_Itsuko
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Not if they're Solid State.
Derpcrawler
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Then it's not hard drive.
Perhaps not technically, though I see this term evolving to include SSDDs.
BasilZero
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Man havent seen these in years lol.
Also that is crazy - cant imagine playing any game with that many discs lol.
4 was enough for me during the PSX era.
boredandlazy
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Fuck that. I just downloaded Shadow of Mordor on Steam which was 42GB(it took 2 days). It immediately reminded me of why I've been playing more on consoles for an extended period of time. Although the cheaper price made it somewhat more bearable.
Watch your mouth boy!
sotheresachance
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Why were pc game boxes so huge back in the days?
Gnome Scat
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Cool case though.
That and I assume it's got GTA Online and Heists already on the discs.
Because this is the next gen remastered version with much higher textures, visual fidelity and even audio/music. This game is like 50-60gb in next gen terms. Plus, it contains a lot of the updates that came out for online last gen ie. Beach bum, hipster etc.
uncredited male
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When you see a mountain, do you not want to climb it?
Kurt Angle
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why would a primitive thing like bluray be the standard?
the norm has been Digital in the modern world
Flash memory is very expensive when printing 7 DVDs probably cost less than a $1
Lalalandia
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I got a virus that corrupted random reads from floppy so my (12 disc) install of Discworld kept failing for reasons I didn't understand. When it did install it had corrupted random files making an already damn hard adventure game literally impossible. It wasn't until PC Zone gave away a cover mounted virus scanner on their demo disc I discovered it.
Back OT the problem here is that consumer BD-ROM take up has been pretty small making a PC release on BD-ROM all but pointless. The steam hardware survey doesn't break down optical drive types unfortunately and the last IDC figures I can find had them at 4% in 2009 but that report is full of assumptions that are not true of the market today (it assumes notebooks will continue to have optical drives for example). I just don't see there being any other choice for distributing it physically.
SneakyStephan
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But that's a function of you having cave man internet , not an inherent problem with DD (dd has it's problems like complete lack of ownership rights)
My download speed off steam is faster than the read speed of my dvd drive, so downloading a game off of steam is faster than installing the same game from a (or multiple) dvds for me.
And for people with gigabit internet and ssds it's going to be even faster than my 200mb/s inet and 7200 rpm hard drive.
Disc drives (as in dvd/blu ray) are archaic technology. Their read speeds are absolutely pathetic (and their access times are tens of thousands to millions of times slower than solid state memory)
The only issue is that consumer protection laws have not caught up to the appearance of digital distribution (meaning if you buy a dd game then fuck you it's not yours and you will lose the ability to play it in time)
A dvd drive is to RAM ,an ssd, your hard drive or even a decent internet connection what punch cards are to floppy discs.
boredandlazy
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So? How is archaic internet my fault?
Your whole post just reeks of "Well it works fine for me, so deal with it!".
I never said DD was the problem, I merely stated how it isn't the optimum method for games distribution in my situation.
You can call disc-based media prehistoric as much as you like, doesn't change the fact that for a very high percentage of people it's still the most convenient way to buy a game.
Talk to anyone who used to game in the mid-90's PC days. We were installing games off floppies for days.
Y'all ain't shit
Oh god, I remember this now.
Luckily, I think the worst I had was maybe 5-6 floppies for one game.
But yeah, that wasn't fun. (Especially if a disc messed up.)
Was pretty awesome when we got our first CD-ROM drive installed though.
Talk to anyone who used to game in the mid-90's PC days. We were installing games off floppies for days.
Y'all ain't shit
Ha, installing?
I have the amiga version of beneath a steel sky. Aside from having twice as many floppies as you picture, it doesn't install. You play directly from the floppies. Which means switching disks over, and over, and over, and over again.
Sho_Nuff82
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How is this a thing?
It's not, it's fake.
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