Skyrim physical copies have no data on the discs

[TacticalAssassin1]

How the fuck can they do this? This is epic bullshit. Why? WHY?!
Can't you at least put half the game on a disc and download the rest?
Or let us save money by giving that shitty little piece of code to us on a floppy disc or something?

 

[Sean Els]

that's bullshit... mine has all the data

 

[saucecode]

That really sucks.
The industry is getting very annoying.

Sooo... anyone betting on steam crashing?

 

[A Free Man]

I can't remember ever seeing something like that before.

No disrespect, but i'd have to see some hard evidence before I went off and raged, which I will probably do if true.

If true, hopefully by the time I get around to buying it (which coincidentally will be around the time Bethesda get rid of the inevitable major bugs) the server load will be less so I won't be waiting days for it.

Agreed. I don't believe the OP for a second. I have been semi following the release of information about Skyrim as it has been released and have never heard anything about this before. That is the kind of shitty move I'd expect from a normal developer and as far as my experience with Bethesda they are much better then that. I won't believe this until I see proof, but if it is true I'd be rather disapointed.

 

[schiz0phren1c]

Lol@ total shitstorm over someones friend not having the intelligence to look inside a dvd properly.
"Hey molehill!,I gotta make a mountain out of you!"

 

[Gudrests]

Console gaming for da win!

OT: But seriously, that sucks. The Steam servers are going to be very busy come 11/11/11.

Already downloaded it from steam....common now. Steam isn't dumb They opened the pre down load already

 

[devotedsniper]

Well considering mines preloading at 700KB/s i think i can say that either most have already downloaded it, or steam has upgraded since the witcher 2 constantly got server busy then, i ended up having to download off a us server.

Personally i don't see too much of an issue really, yes it's bad for those who have slow internet but can't you get your friend to back up his pre load so you can load it to your machine when your copy arrives?

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Unable to link it to Steam now and then preload? I am preloading Skyrim on Steam as we speak and I am getting 3mb/s. I say go for it now before 11-11-11.

 

[Palfreyfish]

To all the people saying "herp derp, just pre load", that requires you to have paid for the game. If you've paid for a hard copy, then you will have to pay for ANOTHER copy. It's not like we can all magically pull £36 out of our arses and pay for a new game.

Also, I smell BS. They may as well put a little piece of card in with a code on it. Why waste money printing discs, when all the discs do is point your computer at a steam server and say go.

You can hide stuff on discs, it's not hard, so either the OP's friend is dumb, or he's a professional troll. 10/10 good sir.

 

[Radoh]

I love how this problem has been pointed out to not actually be a problem and that it is on the disk, but nopony wants to read that so they just keep arguing over how stupid it is.
Guys, game disks cost money to make, even when they are empty, doing that for no reason other then to direct you to steam would be a massive waste of resources.
It's there, you can only access it after the release or finagle the game info from the disk. Stop posting in the thread 'til you've read it some.

 

[Loonyyy]

People still buy PC games from stores?


EDIT- i bet the people who buy PC games from RL shops also have VHS players, a CRT monitor and music on cassettes.

Some of us like the special editions.

 

[Fasckira]

What was the point of even giving a disc? They should have just stuck a card with a redeem code or something in a box for physical installs on the PC if thats all the disc has.

 

[Loonyyy]

I love how this problem has been pointed out to not actually be a problem and that it is on the disk, but nopony wants to read that so they just keep arguing over how stupid it is.
Guys, game disks cost money to make, even when they are empty, doing that for no reason other then to direct you to steam would be a massive waste of resources.
It's there, you can only access it after the release or finagle the game info from the disk. Stop posting in the thread 'til you've read it some.

Thanks for the info. Although, my copy of Homefront seemed to force a download, rather than an install. 9 gigs later...

 

[Kris015]

Just fucking great. I don't have any more space on the HDD where i keep steam -.-

 

[Radoh]

I love how this problem has been pointed out to not actually be a problem and that it is on the disk, but nopony wants to read that so they just keep arguing over how stupid it is.
Guys, game disks cost money to make, even when they are empty, doing that for no reason other then to direct you to steam would be a massive waste of resources.
It's there, you can only access it after the release or finagle the game info from the disk. Stop posting in the thread 'til you've read it some.

Thanks for the info. Although, my copy of Homefront seemed to force a download, rather than an install. 9 gigs later...

Steam Derps. That's really all there is to say on the matter.

 

[Fiad]

Well if this was to avoid leaks of the game per-release it failed. One of my friends got her hands on it somewhere and has been saying how amazing it is. I have promptly ignored her all week.

 

[Loonyyy]

That's how every Valve game works, yet everyone seems fine with them.

Not that I recall, my physical version of Counter Strike: Source worked fine, and I'm pretty sure the others do. You still need to register it, but then it installs from the disk.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

That surprises me actually.
I wouldn't usually expect Bethesda to do something like that.

 

[Ruwrak]

Something tells me it will be there at release date...
No way a company would send out empty copies.

And otherwise, go complain at your gamestore where you got the thing.