Picking TQ back up

[OdiumTheologicum]

But I forgot I had bought the game on release and it's the CD version. > .> 5 friggin' CDs. It feels like it takes foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[TECHNOmancer]

Is that the sound of frustration or anticipation? ;)

TECHNOmancer

[Renevent]

I hate physical media...I had to reinstall NWN: Platinum the other day and it's 7 CD's lol.

I remember way back when I purchased a game called "Rise of the Robots"...it came on 14 (yes, fourteen!) 3.5 floppy disks :rolleyes:

[matthewfarmery]

well there is always the steam version you know ;)

but yeah, I feel you pain with some of those old games :D

[OdiumTheologicum]

I hate physical media...I had to reinstall NWN: Platinum the other day and it's 7 CD's lol.

I remember way back when I purchased a game called "Rise of the Robots"...it came on 14 (yes, fourteen!) 3.5 floppy disks :rolleyes:

Oh god. Glad I got the diamond version.
The only tediousness installing that game is the serial keys lol.

well there is always the steam version you know ;)

but yeah, I feel you pain with some of those old games :D

Yeah there is but I already have a key for the game and the expansion. :) Plus. I just totally screwed up the side view mirror on my car, and it's pretty much grafted to my door, so now the door frame is pulled away from the window in one spot, and so far up against it in another that I can't roll it down. Had to use boxing tape to prevent rain from getting in the door frame and rusting it. T -T So any additional money from college refund/job check goes to that cheeky bastard down at the body shop charging $50 an hour...

[hooby]

well there is always the steam version you know ;)

Well, steam is easier to install NOW.

But just imagine that maybe 20 years into the future, steam wouldn't exist anymore - or would have dropped support for all games older than 15 years.

I guess installing Steam games that aren't downloadable from steam anymore, will be much harder then, than installing games from 7 CDs is now.

[Renevent]

Neverwinter Nights was released 9 years ago...so that shows physical media has an even shorter shelf life. Even then that's assuming digital media will have the same downfalls as physical...I think gog.com and other sites are showing that digital is actually the answer even for MUCH older games from dead OS's (like DOS).

[OdiumTheologicum]

Well. With physical media and some responsibility, you can keep your games forever(exaggeration but for a long time.) But lose it, break it, or otherwise bring harm to it and you have to make another purchase.

Digital media, you aren't guaranteed to always have access to it, but you're not screwed if you're irresponsible either. Well. Let's rephrase that from irresponsible to apathetic about the care of said physical media.

I hated steam awhile back. I still don't care much for it, but it hasn't proven to be terrible either.

[hooby]

I use steam a lot - but as I already posted elsewhere, I'm very suspicious of that "lock-in" they strive for.

Buy a game with steam, and you MUST buy all addons and DLC with steam too - because the game is not compatible with DLC/addons bought anywhere else.

Then steam does not allow their own products like portal and TF2 to be available on other download platforms - they are steam-exclusives.

EA's Origin service now starts to do exactly the same thing. They try to lock-in customers, and they make their own games exclusives for their own service.

So what's Gamestop gonna do with Impulse - which they bought up? They are gonna try to do lock-in and exclusive titles.

I just really dislike the direction this is going.

[shawnmck]

I personally prefer physical medium like a dvd over digital.
I am not always with Internet connection, and also because I am anal like that.

[matthewfarmery]

yeah this lock in system is going to get nasty, and people will be forced to have many download clients for different games because the main publishers are arguing over DLC and exclusive titles, while I like steam, this recent moves to remove games because the game went against their TOS, or they don't want games to use third party shops as they won;'t get a cut and stuff like that is just plain silly

this may end up killing the PC platform rather then keeping it going, and besides, I don't trust EA, they are a horrible publisher, and they game support is just terrible, sure they now renamed their own download manager, and will want people to use it, but from what I have seen, people may not, or may not trust EA as far as they can throw them

but all this is doing is hurting sales, and yeah, as for Gamestop, I think they will also find it harder to sell games on the impulse platform now, and there is a possibility that Activision may do the same, then that means the online systems won't be that good, its a shame that is going this direction, as I don't think EA or activision are the best publishers on the planet, more offten then not they are helping to destory games, not make them better