One of my acquaintances got the PC copy of Skyrim today. He already knew that he wouldn't be able to play until Friday, but he looked on the disc anyway to see if he could install any of it. The answer is no. All in the disc is a small bit of code redirecting to Steam so you can download all of the game from there.
I am kinda pissed about this. I paid $150 for the CE of the game and I want to be able to install from the disc (A La Deus Ex: Human Revolution) because it is a LOT faster. I guess I am a little lucky to not have it coming to me until the 12th, because by then I expect I might be able to download it from Steam by the time it gets here. Those servers will be too full and wouldn't see me anyway.Just thought I'd tell you guys.
I know for some of you, it doesn't matter at all. But this type of thing aggravates me a bit.
EDIT: I leave for two days and the thread has over 10K views? So some on this thread (and /r/skyrim) the data was encrypted and hidden. So it seems we will be allowed to install from the disc. Sorry for the panic.
I am kinda pissed about this. I paid $150 for the CE of the game and I want to be able to install from the disc (A La Deus Ex: Human Revolution) because it is a LOT faster. I guess I am a little lucky to not have it coming to me until the 12th, because by then I expect I might be able to download it from Steam by the time it gets here. Those servers will be too full and wouldn't see me anyway.Just thought I'd tell you guys.
I know for some of you, it doesn't matter at all. But this type of thing aggravates me a bit.
EDIT: I leave for two days and the thread has over 10K views? So some on this thread (and /r/skyrim) the data was encrypted and hidden. So it seems we will be allowed to install from the disc. Sorry for the panic.