RedEye9 wrote on Oct 12, 2015, 15:05:

Luke wrote on Oct 12, 2015, 04:38:

RedEye9 wrote on Oct 11, 2015, 17:03:

Luke wrote on Oct 11, 2015, 16:33:

RedEye9 wrote on Oct 11, 2015, 15:11:

The future is here.

is it hmm i see .. well what a future ....what a future , no media even tho the price is up , i guess people wanna be ###

You might prefer the stoneage, but digital delivery is all there is going to be in a few short years except for a few niche markups markets.

You might prefer the stoneage

On some things yea , i still use a keyboard , a mouse and i guess you also do so who are you to say You might prefer the stoneage, I want to have a feeling i got something for the money instead of a code and a pdf file of a manual and some fucking skin for a gun or whatever....and the price is still if not higher for a shitty beta game here in the "future"

Digital delivery is here to stay. It's better for the environment, lower carbon footprint and all that jazz.
I don't know why you brought up mice and keyboards. I use a g602 mouse and ducky zero one with cherry mx browns. The boxes that these input devices came in had no sway on my decision, they were each ordered sight unseen, digitally, from the internet.

And the fact that that gaming companies can shunt costs that would've covered production of those dvd's onto the populace by way of raping their bandwidth and caps and saving buttloads of dosh, while still keeping the price of the game artificially high even factoring in that huge reduced line-item costs for the physical media and buying shelf space.. well, I'm sure the decision is making someone at corporate rather rich, er... pleased.

And here I thought making manuals into .pdfs was a douche move. (hugs his Falcon 4 3-ring-bound cardboard encased manual from days of glory past).

It used to be cool to open up a new game. Those of us who've been around awhile know what's missing, and we're not seeing any quality of life improvement by way of the move to try to shove everything down 'teh intertoobs'. I still have my cloth maps from the various Ultima games, a few of the coins and manuals lying about, and way too much other stuff from various other games that made it feel (subjective, I know, but still) that devs gave enough of a damn back in the day to try to give you more of an experience than just opening an box empty save for a game code.

I know, I know.. I get it. I'm officially old now. And as I sit here going in my head 'damnit, it was better back in the day!', I join a long distinguished line of humans going back in time that were all sure in their head that they were right.

So... pbththththth

p.s.: murmer mumble global warming grumble.



~ Finis ~

Luke wrote on Oct 12, 2015, 04:38:

RedEye9 wrote on Oct 11, 2015, 17:03:

Luke wrote on Oct 11, 2015, 16:33:

RedEye9 wrote on Oct 11, 2015, 15:11:

The future is here.

is it hmm i see .. well what a future ....what a future , no media even tho the price is up , i guess people wanna be ###

You might prefer the stoneage, but digital delivery is all there is going to be in a few short years except for a few niche markups markets.

You might prefer the stoneage

On some things yea , i still use a keyboard , a mouse and i guess you also do so who are you to say You might prefer the stoneage, I want to have a feeling i got something for the money instead of a code and a pdf file of a manual and some fucking skin for a gun or whatever....and the price is still if not higher for a shitty beta game here in the "future"

You sound like getting a dvd inside of a cardboard box is almost as important as the data that's on it. Some kids like to play with the box, others would rather play with the contents. I'm a content person myself.
I recommend that you get a shoebox and toss a cd in it, every time you buy a game just pick up the box, shake it and peek inside.

Digital delivery is here to stay. It's better for the environment, lower carbon footprint and all that jazz.
I don't know why you brought up mice and keyboards. I use a g602 mouse and ducky zero one with cherry mx browns. The boxes that these input devices came in had no sway on my decision, they were each ordered sight unseen, digitally, from the internet.

I wonder if the box says a DVD drive is required

Dacron wrote on Oct 12, 2015, 04:55:
It was deleted pretty quickly.

Well we can't have those peons stand up to us for falsely advertising a product now can we?

Mashiki Amiketo wrote on Oct 12, 2015, 04:06:
Stating that there's a disc(logo) and no disc inside could actually fall into the realm of false advertising. Just for anyone who wants to run with it.

Heh, a "game lawyer" (pretty sure how he referred to himself in thread) had posted in the Ubisoft forum thread linked in the article asking for any concerned/wronged parties to contact him.

It was deleted pretty quickly.

RedEye9 wrote on Oct 11, 2015, 17:03:

Luke wrote on Oct 11, 2015, 16:33:

RedEye9 wrote on Oct 11, 2015, 15:11:

The future is here.

is it hmm i see .. well what a future ....what a future , no media even tho the price is up , i guess people wanna be ###

You might prefer the stoneage, but digital delivery is all there is going to be in a few short years except for a few niche markups markets.

You might prefer the stoneage

On some things yea , i still use a keyboard , a mouse and i guess you also do so who are you to say You might prefer the stoneage, I want to have a feeling i got something for the money instead of a code and a pdf file of a manual and some fucking skin for a gun or whatever....and the price is still if not higher for a shitty beta game here in the "future"

People are so lazy today , they can't move there fat ass down to the local store , local stores close jobs gone all because lazy people only want to click to get " welcome to the future" my ass . Next whining about its to hard to click "we want voice downloads" pathetic

Stating that there's a disc(logo) and no disc inside could actually fall into the realm of false advertising. Just for anyone who wants to run with it.

Are they hardcore Might and Magic Heroes fans that buy all of them, event he ones that suck like this one?

Dacron wrote on Oct 11, 2015, 21:47:

Creston wrote on Oct 11, 2015, 21:26:
Classic Ubisoft.

I'm sure it's a download code for Uplay too. Basically as a double Fuck You.

Some guys didn't even get that, had to contact support and wait up to a week for the game to be added/activated for them.

Holy shit... What a bunch of fucking cuntsacks Ubisoft have become.

Creston wrote on Oct 11, 2015, 21:26:
Classic Ubisoft.

I'm sure it's a download code for Uplay too. Basically as a double Fuck You.

Some guys didn't even get that, had to contact support and wait up to a week for the game to be added/activated for them.

Classic Ubisoft.

I'm sure it's a download code for Uplay too. Basically as a double Fuck You.

PHJF wrote on Oct 11, 2015, 18:33:

Who the heck wants to install 30+ GB games from on a ridiculous # of DVD's?

Well seeing as how that's what we did with floppies and cds...

And people on Google fiber probably don't give a shit, but on my terrible connection it's much faster to write from a disc than to download anything.

But wouldn't you rather have it on say one thumb-drive or a Blu-Ray than multiple-DVD's?

Who wants to deal w/ disc-switching on the install? Bleh.

Who the heck wants to install 30+ GB games from on a ridiculous # of DVD's?

Well seeing as how that's what we did with floppies and cds...

And people on Google fiber probably don't give a shit, but on my terrible connection it's much faster to write from a disc than to download anything.

I'm sure everybody prefers having their games on disc.

But, for those who are well-connected and like the excellent sales we often get here digitally - retail is a waste to even think of. Only time retail might be worth while to us is when a game is on major clearance and/or blow-out sale.

Problem seems to be, especially on the PC, at retail is that they keep sticking them on DVD's. That's especially even worse for the bigger-sized games. Who the heck wants to install 30+ GB games from on a ridiculous # of DVD's? What I'd do if they did the above that is just take my retail copy and if it connects to a service (like Steam, Origin, UPlay, etc) - I'll just let it do the download and go do something else for a while like watch a movie, TV show, or something else.

Luke wrote on Oct 11, 2015, 16:33:

RedEye9 wrote on Oct 11, 2015, 15:11:

The future is here.

is it hmm i see .. well what a future ....what a future , no media even tho the price is up , i guess people wanna be ###

You might prefer the stoneage, but digital delivery is all there is going to be in a few short years except for a few niche markups markets.

It's time PC retail starts shipping games on some format that's more logical for PC gamers.

BR format never really got adopted enough on the PC (plus Sony is behind that format, who Microsoft don't get along with); since HD-DVD format failed (which Microsoft was behind); and game-downloads became more popular here (thanks to Steam, Origin, GOG and other services - and much better pricing sales than what retail often offers).

Even putting games a huge GB laced thumb-drive that contains the entire game would make more sense than this crap. That certainly would have games taking up less space on the shelves than even a slim-DVD case, as well - which retail surely would love.

And likely, most people have a USB port to stick a thumb-drive in.

This comment was edited on Oct 11, 2015, 16:50.

RedEye9 wrote on Oct 11, 2015, 15:11:

The future is here.

is it hmm i see .. well what a future ....what a future , no media even tho the price is up , i guess people wanna be buttfucked 's

Sacrifex wrote on Oct 11, 2015, 15:59:
Ubisoft-free for the better part of a decade, and going strong here.

Heroes of Might and Magic 5 was the last Ubi thing purchased here, having seen anything from them since that made me want to buy it. Though even if there was something Uplay is a deal breaker, not to mention the companies attitude.

I used to love the Heroes Series, so it pains me to say it, but, if you play anything by Ubisoft, you deserve whatever you get (or, don't get).

Ubisoft-free for the better part of a decade, and going strong here.