@beardalaxy @ryo @PhenomX6 @xianc78 CD's are awesome, I have an external one powered by a USB, I wish more PC games offered that route instead of being steam exclusive. I have never seen a game come on a flashdrive before, I feel like a game coming on a flash drive would make it lose its magic
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@beardalaxy @xianc78 @ryo
The problem with optical media is when you're making bloated shitfests, you have to split games onto multiple DL discs.
Why? Nobody on the PC has a bd drive and the bd attach rate was poor ever since Steve Jobs declared optical media dead and the cargo cult of PC makers aping apple followed. It's real bad on desktops since removing 5.25 bays also crippled expandability now, good luck installing front HDD bays or similar.
@beardalaxy @xianc78 @ryo
The problem with optical media is when you're making bloated shitfests, you have to split games onto multiple DL discs.
Why? Nobody on the PC has a bd drive and the bd attach rate was poor ever since Steve Jobs declared optical media dead and the cargo cult of PC makers aping apple followed. It's real bad on desktops since removing 5.25 bays also crippled expandability now, good luck installing front HDD bays or similar.
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@PhenomX6 @beardalaxy @ryo @Melon It's not much of a problem for indie games though. If the file size is small enough (which would really only be possible if your game was made "from scratch"), you can even use a CD as opposed to a DVD. AAA games however would probably need to distribute their games on HDDs at this point.
@beardalaxy @ryo @Melon
Nah what they do is print like 7 or so DVDs and shove them in a box.