Paper clips are for resetting routers, too.
Not every country in the world (and believe it or not, they sell consoles outside America!) has awesome internet.
Australia, for example, has notoriously shit internet by global standards - it’s not unknown for people in major cities to still have ADSL 1 connections - so have a 20gb game come on a disc with a smaller “activation/day one patch” download is preferable to trying to download the entire thing from the digital store.
Look closer. Newer drives have the hole behind a very tiny hatch.
Yes!
I loved this OP. I love it when the OP is genuinely aggravated, and none of this RO shit. I was cracked sufficiently up by this.
Actually, I have to agree with that. Genuine outrage over something that perhaps annoys only the OP is more interesting than opening yet another RO thread.
I see you’re trying to open your optical drive! Would you like help with that?
Hey, what are you doing? Put me down! You’re not going to --AAAAAAARRRRRRGHHHHH! My wire! My beautiful bendy wire!
Wait, where are you sticking me?
Don’t want ejection problems? Stop pushing on the caddy to close.
You might also enjoy this earlier rant…
except OP’s rant was incredibly stupid. tray-loading optical drives nearly all have “emergency” mechanical releases you’re supposed to use a thin wire (like a paper clip) to get a disc out if the mechanism fails. slot-loading drives, not so much. It’s actually interesting that the XBone’s drive allows this, since on the PS4 you have to take the fucking thing apart to get a disc out.
OP trying to turn this into some sort of failure on Microsoft’s part is incredibly retarded.
When the Bone was first announced, it was going to be strictly digital, and it prompted a torch-wielding mob to march on Redmond. Everyone was furious that Microsoft was cutting out pawn shops like Gamestop. Microsoft walked that decision back within a week or so.
Actually, big chunks of America have utterly shit internet. Running fiber to every house on the continent is not cost effective for our digital overlords.
In truth, there are practical reasons why some people still prefer discs. And practical reasons why optical disc players have a mechanical option for popping the tray when it gets jammed.
None of which apply here, since most games these days require both the disc AND an extensive download (often exceeding the data size of the disk) before running. The physical disk is pretty much just crude copy protection to keep the “same” copy of the game from being on multiple consoles at once.
None? How about GameFly?
Idly glances at the paperclip hole on the DVD drive of his office computer
Imagine what this rant would be like if they didn’t even include the paperclip hole?
EDIT: Although this does present an interesting thought: If you can eject the disk by triggering a switch concealed behind the Clippy Hole, why not just put a mechanical button there all the time, and have the drive’s motor triggered by the same switch? Probably broke too easily from mechanical strain of repeated use I guess.
So you don’t have to use a paperclip to eject the game, you have to use it when the game gets stuck.
Pretty big difference there.
Out of curiosity, what would you prefer instead? The manual drive on the PS3 Super Slim is often highlighted as being one of the few system downgrades, and I assume it’s more convenient to stick something (I often use a toothpick or mechanical pencil in place of a paperclip, sometimes even a ballpoint pen works) into a hole instead of needing to unscrew the machine.
My question would be why Xbox is still using CD-ROMs…
For crying out loud, the PS3, which came out years before, uses Blu-Rays, but current gen Xbox is still using CD-ROMs?!
That’s more ridiculous than any of this other crap. Worthy of a pitting on its own, I’d say. Get with the fucking times, Xbox.
Xbox one has a blu ray reader. I assume the OP was using CD-ROM as a catchall term for Optical drive.
That makes a lot more sense.
CD-ROM console games went out as far back as the PS2, which used DVDs.
When really the appropriate catch-all term would be Turntable.
Seriously. It’s 2016. Why do I still have to rely on a turntable when I want to play Fallout 4?
Is anyone else old enough and nerd enough to remember the ti99 and it’s tape drive? It used audio cassettes for data. Took damn near as long to load games as it would to type it into basic. And that horrible eeeeeeeeee kachu kachu kachu kachu sound it would make when loading.
Oh, shit! That was beyond incredible! I’m typing and laughing my ass off!
Thank you, and I’m in full agreement with you.
The CD player in my 2008 Hyundai Elantra didn’t have a paperclip hole. So I was stuck driving around with an error message displayed on the screen for three years, since I didn’t want to take it to the dealer and pay lots of money to fix a CD player I didn’t use.