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PostPosted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 11:14 pm  Post subject: And nows my queue to exit....
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Ubisoft has confirmed that its upcoming, Crytek developed, Far Cry game for the PC will only be released on DVD. This move marks a departure from the simultaneous multi-CD and DVD release which is currently practiced by most publishers.

Although most high-end PC's do carry a DVD-ROM there are still quite a few systems out there without such a drive. This would, for all intents and purposes, make the game unattainable for owners of such systems. In fact, it would seem that Ubisoft is using this move to indicate that if you have a medium to low-end PC you shouldn't even attempt to play Far Cry. DVD-ROMs have become very cheap however, so the actual prospect of playing the game should be reason enough for gamers to integrate a drive into their system.

With Far Cry becoming the biggest title this spring and with previews and reviews of the game claiming it's a must-have title, it would seem that Ubisoft are risking a lot. Adding a DVD to a system may be a simple task for most but many do not have the know-how to do so. If nothing else, this move by Ubisoft could prove annoying for a lot of potential Far Cry customers.


http://www.megagames.com/news/html/pc/f ... only.shtml

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 11:23 pm  Post subject:
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if u dont have a dvd rom by now, then why do you have a pc in the first place?... i am 100% with ubisoft on this one... if you dont know how to install a dvd-rom by now then... bye bye suckers... :moon:

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 11:41 pm  Post subject:
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I don't have a DVD-ROM. I still feel I don't need one. While this game may be awesome, 1) I don't play games and 2) its from UbiSoft, so it probably won't be.

My first DVD-ROM will be a burner.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 12:38 am  Post subject:
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I dont have a dvdrom either. But I could care less, I would not have bought it anyway. I will download it and use daemon tools to check it out. :lol:

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 3:17 am  Post subject:
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good, why not to move to new standard?

yeah, I think that's true: if you don't have a DVD-ROM you don't have a system that could run that game (of course in general)

but if you do have a modern pc *without</i>* a DVD then you *know</i>* what you're doing with your computer - and then you can use daemon tools anyway as suggested by Blu_Vein_Throbber... lol


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 10:50 am  Post subject:
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i asked myself already several times why the hell they are starting doing this just now and not a long time ago, by now it?s completely useless again i?d say, dvd-bruners are not really rare anymore.


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yeah... I remember when games stopped being made on floppies. didn't make the games any better though. Day of the Tentacle & Monkey Island 1 & 2 are still the best.


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 6:52 pm  Post subject:
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John_Doe wrote:
yeah... I remember when games stopped being made on floppies. didn't make the games any better though. Day of the Tentacle & Monkey Island 1 & 2 are still the best.


did u know that monkey island 2 was on 11 disks, and did u know that disks aint a good medium over time...i think not... thank god for cd's... and yes there was good games after 1993 also ;)

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John_Doe wrote:
yeah... I remember when games stopped being made on floppies. didn't make the games any better though. Day of the Tentacle & Monkey Island 1 & 2 are still the best.


did u know that monkey island 2 was on 11 disks, and did u know that disks aint a good medium over time...i think not... thank god for cd's... and yes there was good games after 1993 also ;)


ah....I never did complete Elvira II

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 10:03 pm  Post subject:
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the old amiga days *sigh*
indy 4 held the record though i think with 12 disks.


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hehe, I had the floppy rip of the original Command & Conquer game. When they'd taken away all the videos, all music and speech it still took 30 damn disks.


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