X-Com: Enemy Unknown remake announced

[MimeVictim]

the game just unlocked on steam

omgomgomgomgomgomgomg

[Llama8]

Originally Posted by jiaco

Let us know how that works out for you...

Funnily enough it didn't. Though having the RoW version would be one of the reasons behind that. Quite why Steam has to have different release dates in different regions I don't know (ok, so it's the publishers being a bunch of ****wits, but still, it's ridiculous for a digital download).

[Josho]

Originally Posted by deathwings51

How big is the game in disk-size ?

The pre-load on steam was around 12GB.

[deathwings51]

Originally Posted by Josho

The pre-load on steam was around 12GB.

So considering that someone gets a Retail copy, he/she would have to download about 4-6 GB from Steam. Swell

[Josho]

Originally Posted by deathwings51

So considering that someone gets a Retail copy, he/she would have to download about 4-6 GB from Steam. Swell

Not necessarily.

The 12GB is what steam says, however the actual download could be smaller than that. Secondly, on the DVD, the files could well be packaged up. Keep in mind that this game is also on console systems, which means they too shouldn't have extensive downloads in order to play. Or to put another way, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the whole game came packaged on the one DVD. Of course, caveat emptor still applies.

[Skellt]

can't wait to try it out tonight! on average reviews are about 90-95%, not that i really care about reviews, still nice to see it is so well received

[hooby]

Originally Posted by Llama8

Funnily enough it didn't. Though having the RoW version would be one of the reasons behind that. Quite why Steam has to have different release dates in different regions I don't know (ok, so it's the publishers being a bunch of ****wits, but still, it's ridiculous for a digital download).

I believe they use geoIP or something to find out where from you are connecting.

The reason is surely that publishers don't allow different release dates for digital distribution because they don't want to piss of brick&mortar retailers, who can't get the game earlier because of how the retail chain works (truck delivery dates and stuff).

[Llama8]

Originally Posted by hooby

The reason is surely that publishers don't allow different release dates for digital distribution because they don't want to piss of brick&mortar retailers, who can't get the game earlier because of how the retail chain works (truck delivery dates and stuff).

I know, and yet everyone got into SWTOR on the same day...

Though the only reason for the EU releases being on Fridays & the US on Tuesdays is "tradition" (that and possibly when games were made in the US & it would take several extra days to get "over here").