If you bought the newest iteration of the Metal Gear Solid series to play on your computer, you might have been surprised to notice that the DVD disc that was in the box did not actually contain any game files. All it contains is an installation binary for Steam, allowing you to download the game in full from the Internet (~30 GB).

What do you think about this? Should the game have been sold as Blu-ray? Or perhaps multiple DVDs?

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[VinsCool]

Not everyone has blu-ray drives; I think there's a growing number of players with no disc drive actually. Maybe they could include a free drive with every box!

Why not, considering they're already throwing money out of windows at this point ;O;

 

[LightyKD]

You know, mass producing old 64mb SD cards would probably have made more sense. Hell just pass out a bunch of 1GB SD cards. At least then they could use the card with Window's Readyboost. Lmao this situation is just plain silly.

 

[Fishaman P]

Why even sell a physical edition if it doesn't come with the game itself? A pretty box?

 

[Bladexdsl]

In this instance, I'd only agree for those who have a slow connection.

that's 95% of Australia

 

[SolidMario7]

Oh Comcast, why do you have to be like that?

Anyways, those three articles were an interesting read.

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I don't know about you guys but I'm currently fine with my relationship with comcast.

No, but really; I can see why Konami would pull this. But they HAD to know this would tick most people off.

 

[Deleted User]

So not only did they waste a DVD, they wasted an expensive 9GB DVD

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That sucks. But does no one else remember Blizzard did it first with heart of the swarm?

I remember when I bought Wings of Liberty, put it in the drive, installed it, then it needed to download a 11 GB update because of Heart of the Swarm even though I did not have access to play Heart of the Swarm, so I had to reimburse my mom for those wasted GBs.

 

[BlackYoshi485]

What the heck. This is Konami's Epicest fail.

 

[q9p]

What the heck. This is Konami's Epicest fail.

It isn't a fail per se, but it does certainly defeat the purpose of buying a game physically.

 

[BlackYoshi485]

It isn't a fail per se, but it does certainly defeat the purpose of buying a game physically.

Not everybody has a "fast" internet connection.

 

[q9p]

Not everybody has a "fast" internet connection.

This argument has been made before. I certainly do agree that not everyone has a fast internet connection. All I had said was that it defeats the purpose of buying a physical game in which you said it was a failure on Konami's end.

 

[Captain_N]

LoL lame. Its to be expected. A few dvds compressed is all it'll take.those people that build gaming pcs with no Disc drives are Fail. I cant see it being on a BD-ROM as there are not many PCs with them.

 

[RyanVashEngstrom]

Konami never actually cared about pc so this is not surprising.

that's not exactly the same... the problem with HotS was it was sent gold way too early in the development process. the game that actually came out was so different from what was on the disc that the disc did not matter anymore.
HotS disc, fyi

Different region, here the disc had one file for online installer. Would post a pic also but I melted the disc for fun since it was worthless anyway.

 

[mattycfp]

I might be oblivious to this, but aren't lots of discs doing this now? Steam is a great way to protect your game keys, and has some damn good matchmaking.

 

[filfat]

This is actually a good thing in my eyes, we'recommend moving away from non-digital content this further proves that.

24mbps costs around 200 SEK or 30$ a month, so unless you live in India getting a decent connection isn'the expensive.
(Getting 300mbps costs about 1200 SEK or 160$ a month)

Please stop cheaping out then complaining about slow connection (unless you live in a 3rd world country ofc).

 

[JoostinOnline]

This is extremely stupid. Pressed discs don't take more time to make of there is more content.

Please stop cheaping out then complaining about slow connection (unless you live in a 3rd world country ofc).

Please stop pretending everyone has as much money as you. Besides, aren't you still living with your parents?

 

[NicEXE]

Pressed discs don't take more time to make of there is more content

Those aren't like the vinyl disks you put on the pick-up and music comes out.
There is no platinum master that is used to "press" new vinyl disks.
Those are laser disks.
A laser lens has to move across the track and burn it.
In other words, the time it takes to burn a disk is analogous to the amount of data you are writing. Although, the price of burning a megabyte on a DL DVD and burning 8 gigabytes on a DL DVD is the same.

 

[driverdis]

Those aren't like the vinyl disks you put on the pick-up and music comes out.
There is no platinum master that is used to "press" new vinyl disks.
Those are laser disks.
A laser lens has to move across the track and burn it.
In other words, the time it takes to burn a disk is analogous to the amount of data you are writing. Although, the price of burning a megabyte on a DL DVD and burning 8 gigabytes on a DL DVD is the same.

discs are molded (pressed) from a Glass master disc. however, the price should stay the same for using a meg or 8 GB.

 

[RemixDeluxe]

I asked in the last topic where to find this alleged physical copy of the game. I checked Best Buy, Game Stop, and Amazon. Where are people getting this game physically?

 

[JoostinOnline]

Those aren't like the vinyl disks you put on the pick-up and music comes out.
There is no platinum master that is used to "press" new vinyl disks.
Those are laser disks.
A laser lens has to move across the track and burn it.
In other words, the time it takes to burn a disk is analogous to the amount of data you are writing. Although, the price of burning a megabyte on a DL DVD and burning 8 gigabytes on a DL DVD is the same.

Commercial CD's and DVD's aren't burned. They are pressed. That's why they last longer.

 

[the_randomizer]

Konami's motto - "Hard work often pays off later, but laziness pays off now." Just because they can do this, doesn't mean they should.