Will Game ship with CD's or DVD?

[kamikazee]

At least there is still some floppy lover around!

I’ve been putting floppies in my floppy drive for years, and still using it. No CD-drive can beat the ritmic sounds of such a device.

[Joe999]

if floppy, then it would be awesome if you could provide these 8 inch floppy discs. i need a new wallpaper in my room anyway, and quake wars discs would give my whole gaming room an individual qw touch

[Sauron_EFG]

I remember installing Borland C++ from something like 29 floppies and thought that was bad. :moo:

I would rather know ahead of time, and do you really think it’s that much of a hassle for the developers to say if the game will come with cd or dvd

I’d guess it’s up to the publisher, not the developer, to decide how to distribute the game. DVD makes most sense considering how big it must be with all the megatextures (mega = a lot! ), but maybe it will be released on CD in some third world countries.

[ParanoiD]

Hmm lets calculate: we are thinking of 8 CD’s so, 8x700=5600MB data.
No this: 5600/1.44=3889 3.5" floppies (dont know where 5 1/2" 700kb floppies deth_metal cuz at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk i dont see em, no 5 1/2", not even 5 1/4" 700kb floppies.

Transfer rate floppy: 500Kb/s. 500/8=62.5 KB/s. -> 5600x1024=5734400 KB data. 5734400/62.5= 91750.4 sec to install ET:QW from floppies (excluding teh time needed to remove floppy, insert next floppy, click on ok, i will use 5 sec for that) -> 91750.4 + 3889x5 = 111195.4 sec to install ET:QW on your pc from 3,5" floppies. 111195.4/3600= about 31 hours to install ET:QW.

I would say the best option is to drink some coffee while installing ET:QW. Ofcourse using teh BF2 DVD as coffee muck holder.

[Joe999]

this gives the term “preloading” a whole new meaning. when do the first floppies ship?

[kamikazee]

(dont know where 5 1/2" 700kb floppies deth_metal cuz at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk i dont see em, no 5 1/2", not even 5 1/4" 700kb floppies.

There they are: The 5¼-inch minifloppy

[MadMattUK]

I remember installing Borland C++ from something like 29 floppies and thought that was bad. :moo:

You obviously have never played “secret of monkey island” on the Amiga then?. Seven floppy disks, and no hard drive!! :eek:

[DG1]

will there be a punchcard version?

[Florisjuh]

I guess digital destribution is a better alternative

[kamikazee]

That would not combine with the bandwidth restrictions of my ISP.

[Etnies]

I would rather know ahead of time, and do you really think it’s that much of a hassle for the developers to say if the game will come with cd or dvd, that know big deal takes like 5 secs to answer that question, so really i don’t think they would mind, inless they were not sure themselfs

The other guys seen it in a trailer for ET:QW so id say its a safe bet you will need one,

Also if you havent got/never updated to a dvd drive what are the specs to the rest of your pc?

[Zyklon]

CDs are cheaper.

[kamikazee]

Yes, but does that pay back if you look at the number of CD’s you need?

[Zyklon]

I don’t mind playing the dj when I’m installing if I can save almost €10

[ParanoiD]

[quote=ParanoiD](dont know where 5 1/2" 700kb floppies deth_metal cuz at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk i dont see em, no 5 1/2", not even 5 1/4" 700kb floppies.

There they are: The 5¼-inch minifloppy[/quote]

Still I dont see any 700KB 5 1/2" floppy. Most close is teh 720 KB 5 1/4" (look at the size! ;))

1 DVD would be cheaper then 8 CDs. Its not really the cost of a CD compared to teh DVD, but the fact that 8 CDs would probably take up the same to make as 8 DVDs, so 1 full game vs 8 full game copys, what would you choose when selling games when a DVD player is costing like nothing these days. You probably can find an old pc somewhere with a working DVD drive in it, and new they don’t cost that much at all.

Its a shame when your PC doesnt have a DVD drive these days (I know this PC I am typing on is a shame, but ok teh specs make it as it is an old PII 350 MHz :P)

[Apocalypse]

Floppies it is, then.

Oh noes!! Now I would have to install a floppy! Waaaaaaa :banghead:

But thanks so much for letting me know ahead of time so that I can skip the 3 months waiting time to get a floppy! Yay! Now I’m ready to rock for QW!

Oh wait, I still run on GeForce2 since the time floppy drives were expensive. :eek2:

[Got-JuicE]

Specs are
VideoCard- 7800gtx 256mb
motherboard- Asus A8N-SLI Premium w/ DualDDR400, 7.1 Audio, Dual GB Lan, 2 x PCI-E x16 SLI, Cool-Pipe
Processors- AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ w/ 2x512K Cache

I got very good specs I just didn’t really ever think that they would completly change all news game to be on DVD, never saw it coming, but I’m hearing from so many different people from forums that the game will be shipped with cd and dvd and other said just DVD, so only time will tell.

[Nail]

CDs are cheaper.

where ???
not here, DVD’s are cheaper and drives are same price, just got a LG DVD 16x dual layer rw for $40 cdn including shipping and nero

[Zyklon]

[quote=Zyklon]CDs are cheaper.

where ???
[/quote]

On www.cd-wow.de for example. I got my CD copy of Q4 there for €32, the DVD version was €39.

[ParanoiD]

[Offtopic] Got-Juice, are u a member of GoT (GatheringOfTweakers)?, just wondring [/offtiopic]

But how teh hell didnt you see this coming? Really every computer 5years or newer has one in it. A DVD Drive wont cost that much, but if it ships on CDs it could be a great idea to wait for HDDVD Drives or Blu-ray to be released/dropping in price.