Have you Pre-Ordered?

[Tatwi]

Originally Posted by exLupo

Ugh. Physical media. How 2009. *shudder*

I just spent the last three days downloading two years worth of updates for Aion (9GB or so) on my super awesome $43/month "rural broadband internet" (Motorola canopy wireless). Cost twice as much as the 28.8 dial up alternative, but downloads about 14 to 20 times faster on average.

Sad part? I have cable TV and there is DSL a Km away, but the cable/telcos are too cheap to extend the services. It just goes right on by us down the highway...

Saddest part? I can play Planetside with approx 80 average ping or I can use voice chat. lol... one time when a guildy and I were two manning an old 25 man raid in WoW, I was hearing his vent instructions a good 10 minutes behind when he said them.

I loves my physical media and my affordable house with a big yard!

[FastAndFree]

Originally Posted by Tatwi

I just spent the last three days downloading two years worth of updates for Aion (9GB or so)

How would physical media help you with online updates?

[Tatwi]

Originally Posted by FastAndFree

How would physical media help you with online updates?

Nothing solves the update thing for me. I just used it as a way to show how slow my interwebs are and why I still like good o'l physical media.

exLupo uses services like Steam to buy all his games online (which is awesome), while I prefer to knock off a large chunk of game files by purchasing them on physical media (rather than downloading the whole game) whenever that is possible.

[opticalshadow]

i will pre order when a collectors comes out, as for right now, i see no benifit in invesating 50 bucks in a game with no release date. i fully intend on getting it, but id rather use that 50 else where until i get a date of release or a tangible object.

[krnasaur]

Originally Posted by dachlatte

1 teaser trailer isnt enough to pre-order

This, while I am a avid planetside fan, I cant justify a pre-order based on a trailer.


I will end up buying it no doubt. But I want to wait for more info. like system specs, release date and what freebees the preorder comes with

[Wakken]

waiting until the retailer I buy most my games from gets it to pre order ^^

[exLupo]

Originally Posted by Tatwi

exLupo uses services like Steam to buy all his games online (which is awesome), while I prefer to knock off a large chunk of game files by purchasing them on physical media (rather than downloading the whole game) whenever that is possible.

That is a good point A co-worker lived in the sticks and even when she got hillbilly wireless her bandwidth caps were too restrictive to stream full installs.

The problem I'm finding is about the same problem I had when I regularly purchased discs. Before, I had too much crap in boxes. Now I'm going to start having too many content service logins. There's steam and gog, origin and impulse and a metric ton of others. Not like rolling up to Best Buy, Gamestop or Wally World and picking up a box.

Woe is me. First world problems abound.

[Zulthus]

I really prefer getting retail copies of the big-name games such as Skyrim/Battlefield 3. However, if it's something small/cheap I'd normally get it on Steam.

[Bruttal]

waiting on confirmation release date.

[kamikava]

This is definitely coming out on steam?

[Zulthus]

Originally Posted by kamikava

This is definitely coming out on steam?

No info yet. Probably though.

[Hamma]

Aye we don't know that, I believe they hope to though.

[Sirisian]

Originally Posted by Tatwi

exLupo uses services like Steam to buy all his games online (which is awesome), while I prefer to knock off a large chunk of game files by purchasing them on physical media (rather than downloading the whole game) whenever that is possible.

Like every file in Planetside has been modified that existed on the original disks (I used them once when the game came out) would be mostly pointless as the launcher downloads all the maps and most of the content since it all changed slightly. That's actually kind of true for a lot of MMO games. Just look at WoW. They changed every quest and remodeled all the maps in the whole game such that pretty much all the content on the disks is out of date.

So yeah I'd prefer digital download only.

[Hamma]

Depends on the game really - it will knock off some time at release fo sure.

But chances are if you are playing an open beta when a game comes out you already have the entire game

[Sentrosi]

All they'll do is send you the unlock key and you'll be playing. That would be golden.