July 12, 2001, 22:45
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Deity
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Originally posted by yin26
Heck...just let me d/l it off the server for $5!
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not such a bad idea.. maybe not $5 maybe $10... they often claim that a lot of the expence goes into the Box and the manual and such like, so lets skip the expences ...
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July 12, 2001, 22:54
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Born Again Optimist
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That day is coming, of course. I think Front Office Football (?) is on a d/l only basis. If gaming companies could circumvent publishers altogether, can you imagine?! The companies wouldn't see such lousy percentages NOR would they be tied to the quarterlies of a bunch of suits. Also, imagine: You realize a file is corrupt...so rather than recalling all those CDs or issuing new ones (anybody play Ultima 9?), you just post a new file for d/l.
Then again, I suppose the complete zipped Civ 3 would come in at, what, 200-400 Megs? My cable line can certainly handle it, but 56k's would be dead in the water. Ah, well, the evil publishers with their paper-pushing will rule gaming for a while yet.
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I've been on these boards for a long time and I still don't know what to think when it comes to you -- FrantzX, December 21, 2001
"Yin": Your friendly, neighborhood negative cosmic force.
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July 12, 2001, 23:08
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or goto the local library and D/l from there and burn the zipped file onto a CD... But i am reaaly hoping that they take advantag eof the size of DVDs and include all manuals and movies and anything else they can thionk of on the one disc
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July 13, 2001, 02:32
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Prince
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DVD???  I hope not! The only DVD player in the house is the Playstation and I don't want to have to peel my brother off that thing if I forget some worker command...
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