Fair point. Just checked, at retail price they are about $25-$50 for 32GB. However, i'm curious how much they would cost in bulk. Especially to a company like Sony or Microsoft. Sony has their own line of flash drives, so that may reduce the cost of getting them to the publishers. Prolly no where near as cheap as a disk though.
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Yup. That's a big part of it. They already have supply and production chains all set up and ready for the current blue ray disk format, and changing over to a new format would be an expensive logistical hassle. So while the flash drives themselves would be more expensive, the process of transitioning over would be expensive and time consuming as well.
Don't care about the download size, 100/100 mbit no data cap takes care of that easily enough, but 48gb? Damn I need to buy some more harddrives. Not even an MMO is that large Oo
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Nobody sane would get that plan of course, there are smaller ISPs that run better deals. But our infrastructure is so shit your choice of ISP is restricted by the closest node to you. I like 20 minutes from Melbourne and the only ISP on my node was Telstra so I got royally fucked, my last ISP had unlimited for less money than I'm paying now. And it took them THREE MONTHS to connect me because they fucked it up so bad, had to pay exorbitant mobile internet rates in the meantime. Nightmare.
Telstra actually changed those plans since several years ago when I last looked. Back then the smallest plan was 200Mb lol. I remember when they were rolling out our new fibre optic network someone calculated that at the new speeds you'd use up the basic Telstra plan in three seconds.
Yeah I'm starting to seriously run low on HDD space, and I have 2 drives apart from my SSD.
No game should ever make you feel like you need to delete some porn to make room. That's crossing A LINE!
Yeah. I've often wondered if the mass production costs would eventually make flash drives a feasible means of distribution. Optical media feels archaic now.
A better solution would be your local game store loading software onto a flash drive you bring in along with a unique key. But of course the industry would freak out at the potential piracy implications *rolleyes*.
This remember me The force unleashed, god awful port, everytime you wanted to patch the game, the game made a backup of the WHOLE GAME in a different folder, the game weight was audio files because the game installed different audio and video language for each cutscene.
Makes me excited to see just how much more the game has to offer, compared to what we actually saw during the beta.
So for me thats 48,000mb/7mbs/60s/60m = 1.9 hrs. Not that bad really. Though if this becomes normal might have to move from 50 to 100mbps; or hopefully Google builds out here in Cali and I can jump to 1 gigabit.
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That and TESO uses low quality textures and assets.
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I feel so bad for people who have data caps, I would never be able to live with one. It's such a scam its ridiculous.
A 48GB install is just pathetic and puts a black mark on Titanfall. Clearly there was no compression or anything to help reduce the file size. But this is ex infinity ward were talking bout here. They have some of the most arrogant devs.
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Between Physical and Digital copies of games. I can stop at game stop on my way home which is maybe 5 minutes out of my way, grab the game, then go home and pop it in. Or I can go straight home, begin a download and wait 2 hours or the 4 I have between getting home and going to bed.
I really don't like this digital method.
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Or maybe it's 7 megabytes/second which is a common standard 50-60mbps package. Further, the twitter says the download is only 21gb not 48gb, which means it would actually only take him about 50 minutes to download.
Personally I have a 100mbps connection and, assuming the download delivers at that speed, it would take just under 30 minutes to download this game. A lot more convenient than going to a store to buy it, probably takes less time too when you factor in the travel time, shopping/checkout time, etc...