Steven Bogos said:
Since the vast majority of PC users still use the good 'ol DVD drive, the physical version of GTA V will be pretty hefty.
on the contrary, reports show that as much as 92% of PC games are digital purchases [http://gamerant.com/pc-digital-physical-sales-comparison-2013/]
The problem being that DVD is still the standard for PC, and while that was fine 10, or even five years ago, these days games are getting a little too big to cram onto the decades-old format.
Its not a problem. DVD is the best physical media to transfer one-off installs (installs you dont need to constantly feed to the pc after instalation is complete).
- over a full year since the game first launched on Xbox 360 and PS3.
18 months, but whose counting
Sillarra said:
65 GB is the install size, or the game size?
Seriously, do they not compress installation files anymore?
The game size. Steams install download takes around 58GB - still a hefty sum of downloading.
Jaeger_CDN said:
There is a cheaper way ... thumb drive which would be an interesting way of doing it. I've heard of some bands selling their albums by thumb drive rather than CD.
Your, kidding, right? If we pick cheapest trash quality thumb drives thats still around 1 dollar per gygabyte. Dvds cost 4 times less.
frizzlebyte said:
Why not put out a version on Blu-Ray? I mean, sure, there's probably not that many gamers with a Blu-ray drive in their PCs, but it'd be a great option for those of us who do and would like to have a physical copy of the game.
Because bluray is not free. you will be paying as much as 1 dollar per disc just for the license to print the disc. money that goes to bluray conglomerate which is basically controlled and owned by Sony. every time anyone prints anything on Blu-Ray they pay Sony for their right to do this. DVD on the other hand is completely free. The price to print those DVDs are less than they would pay for licenses to use bluerays alone let alone printing them.
Hairless Mammoth said:
Ah, the joys of multiple install discs are coming back. Does, the DVD version completely install on the HDD and use Steamworks or other DRM? It would be quite nostalgic to have to swap discs when driving across the map. (Nostalgic yes, but not fun after the first couple times though.)
The DVD version fully install on the local drive (HDD/SSD) and is activated via rockstar social club DRM.
it does not come with a steam code and cannot be added to steam.
MercurySteam said:
Now this I don't understand. First off almost nobody bothers storing their games on SSDs cause all they really affect are loading times which means you'd be far better off getting a better CPU instead. Secondly, with the sizes of games nowadays no one is going to be storing their game libraries on their SSDs anyway. Of course now that you can buy 1TB SSDs maybe people are already doing it.
Some games have atrociuos loading times though. like Battlefield games that can take as much as minutes to load from HDD.
Adam Jensen said:
I'm disappointed that we still don't have a viable flash drive solution for software instead of discs.
Thats because flash drive is not a viable solution.