Please stop selling your newest, greatest games on 5-10 CD’s. Please put it all on 1-2 DVD’s and call it a day.
Before you jump in here and tell me “everyone doesn’t have a DVD drive bro!” I can guaruntee you that every PC that can play Titan Quest, Fear, Half Life 2, Doom 3, Rise of Nations, etc… has a DVD drive. If your computer DOESN’T have a DVD drive then it probably can’t play these games anyways.
They should just make it a requirement. Like a graphics card requirement. If someone want’s to play your $50 PC game and they don’t have a DVD player then maybe it will entice them to drop the $20 to go buy one and move into 1999.
Thank you.
(Also, good job with the plastic game boxes. That’s an improvement but a DVD case would be much better)
And stop making the DVD version the “Special Edition” and charging an extra ten bucks. I don’t need an artbook and a tin can for fucking Prey. I just want it to come on one disc so your crappy-ass game doesn’t fill three pages of my CD binder.
I can now guaruntee that you are wrong. I play Far Cry, Doom 3 and HL2 at highest quality and at a resolution of 1280x1024 on a machine that doesn’t have a DVD drive.
[QUOTE=Stinkpalm}Before you jump in here and tell me “everyone doesn’t have a DVD drive bro!” I can guaruntee you that every PC that can play Titan Quest, Fear, Half Life 2, Doom 3, Rise of Nations, etc… has a DVD drive. If your computer DOESN’T have a DVD drive then it probably can’t play these games anyways.
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Sorry, wrong answer. My system is well over the recommended requirements for those games, but I don’t have a DVD drive. The only reason I don’t have Oblivion yet is because it is on DVD and I don’t have a drive.
I will get around to getting one eventually, but I have a hard time justifying the cost when there is nothing wrong with my CD drive.
Yeah, I completely agree with the OP. DVD-roms have been cheap for at least 4 years now. I mean, this would be like a game only being distributed on floppy back in '98 or '99.
The first thing I do when I install a new game is crack it so I don’t have to fiddle around with the CD’s. Less fiddling with CD’s = better.
Personally, I don’t really buy new games any more anyway. I’m sick of PC game developers using me as their beta test bitch. The straw that broke the camel’s back was Kotor2 when I had to download a user-made “cheat” to get past one part of the game, which was relatively early on. Fuck that.
That baffles me too. Games that cost £35 and need £1000 of video card, ram and whatnot to run, plus several dozen man-hours of troubleshooting and tweaking (and the use of a broadband connection to download all the patches), and somehow £15 for a DVD-ROM is a dealbreaker.
Blimey. That’s some good willpower you have there. If everyone resisted the blandishments of the gadget vendors as well as you… well… the global economy would probably collapse. :eek: Buy. BUY NOW!!
No DVD R/W at all. Why, you may ask? Because there hasn’t been anything released on DVD only that makes me want to get one. If some kick ass, must have game came out on DVD only then I might add one, but right now why?
You can have my buggy whip when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
that’s so funny – I had no idea games were even released on CDs anymore, much less several…
This info would have been a perfect addition to a conversation I had a few nights ago! A few of my geekier friends were lamenting the fact that these days, you can’t tell if it’s a ‘good’ game solely by the number of discs it comes on, as you used to be able to do with floppies. Good times…
sorry for the slight hijack.
I only upgraded to a DVD drive earlier this year because my Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM drive finally died after 6 or 7 years. I was playing HL2 and Doom3 just fine on my old bastard wood-burning computer.
Already own Bejeweled. On both my desktop and PDA. I also play games like City of Heroes, Civ IV, EVE Online, Sims 2, and others. All without needing a DVD drive. Yes, I know decent drives can be had for $20 or so. But then there is the hassle of taking apart my system and reassembling it, along with messing with the software needed.
As I said, I will get one eventually, but not yet.
Good times…
I also play games like City of Heroes, Civ IV, EVE Online, Sims 2, and others. All without needing a DVD drive. Yes, I know decent drives can be had for $20 or so. But then there is the hassle of taking apart my system and reassembling it, along with messing with the software needed.