When are PC games gonna start being released on blue-ray?

[sgtcool]

i buy 90% of my games on disk because i have slow internet. i would love having games on blu ray considering how big most games are nowdays. 

How slow is your internet?

i downloaded Titanfall and BF4 fine on 900 kb/s

[ADM-Ntek]

most of the game i have as box versions are pre steam. but you should keep in mind that outside of the US not everyone has a credit card and those people still need/use physical games.

but i do have a external bluray drive that i only bought to watch firefly.

[Scruffy90]

How slow is your internet?

i downloaded Titanfall and BF4 fine on 900 kb/s

I don't think its only speeds. A lot of people have data caps too.

[officiallyasimulator]

How slow is your internet?

i downloaded Titanfall and BF4 fine on 900 kb/s

my upload is faster than my dl, 150kb/s and my up is 256. straya M8, i bought both titanfall and bf4 on disk 

[ComradeHX]

Digital Distribution Master Race.

 

You can't snap a disk in half and lose the game.

 

And PC has much higher possible storage capacity than consoles; size of game isn't a problem.

[Badger906]

I haven't had an optical drive in my PC for about 4 years!

but don't start the flaming thinking I have super fast Internet, up until Christmas last year I had a measly 4Mbps with an average download speed of about 500kbps.. it often took 2 days to download a game lol.

now I have a 40Mbps connection and I get about 4Mbps download meaning even the largest of games take a couple of hours.

also means I can now stream 4k content!!

[Sir Asvald]

One of my 250GB drive is nearly full. I've only got like 15 games. ;-;

[SIGSEGV]

We've basically skipped bluray and gone straight to downloads

[MoonKnightSpidey]

seriously tho,why does it have to be either Steam or 5 DVDs the only options for PC gamers?,its about danm time PC gamers start coming in blue-ray so we dont have to deal with constany swap in and out. 

They are never going blue-ray. It's worth it for movies to have to pay more money and get a better resolution but with PC games, blue-ray players cost to much and games are going 100% digital.

[Tairetsu]

I still think it's dumb,we should never accept a monopoly,even less a DRM platform,because Steam is just that,a DRM,phisical media should always be an option for people who do not wish to be tied in to an internet connection.

 

If anything because we know for a fact developers will never embrace GOG,it is way too easy to pirate games from there.

[ThomasD]

PC games are going digital.

Wait, you mean CD's are analog?

[-TesseracT-]

Wait, you mean CD's are analog?

Story of my life

[Jackson]

Man, I love my physical copies. I always try get physical over digital whenever possible. I miss being able to go into a GameStop or pretty much any other store and browse their PC games section. Now it's just a selection of The Sims, World of Warcraft, Starcraft II, and download cards charging full MSRP...

[That Norwegian Guy]

I guess because for the distrubutor it's cheaper.

 

Guesstimation:

1 of both types of disc = $0.02

Licensing BDROM = $0.20

Licensing DVD = $0.05

 

Total cost for 5 DVDs = $0.15

Total cost for 1 BDROM = $0.25

[ThomasD]

Story of my life

It's all a conspiracy by the DAC mafia...

[julekule]

I would like to see blu-rays also... my 700Gig steam library and 3Mbps Internet say "hi"....

My 1Mbps internet would like to have a word with you 

[Nexxus]

This just in, they are coming out tuesday. 

[Zulkkis]

I think if people are living in countries that have really crappy internet they should just be able to buy the game from a store in the form of a USB stick, they could make them into key-rings/collectibles

 

Gotta find a good way to make carbage sticks that can hold as much data as they can, then. 4GB or 8GB sticks are easy to come by, but anything higher and you're going to have cost issues like with cartridges back in the day.

 

Could have "charging stations", bring your own external USB 3.0 HDD to a store and get the game transferred when you get your game key

[Uwillparish]

My 1Mbps internet would like to have a word with you 

my 75mbps internet says the 90s called, They want their internet back

[TwOne]

TBH, the only games I still have a physical copy of are these which aren't available yet through a major digital distribution platform. (I mean come on Origin, why no NFS MW 2005 yet?)

 

But, I would definitely be getting physical copies of games bigger than 50GB. My current location can only have 4 Mbps down (I could say I'm even lucky to have internet, upgrading is impossible). This would give me an average speed of 500kb/s actual download, up to 1MBps if I am lucky.

 

And I only wish I could move (just a few more years....)

 

I even remember back in 2008/2009, I had 50kbit/s actual download, 2GB took way too long lmao

[TheProfosist]

I guess because for the distrubutor it's cheaper.

 

Guesstimation:

1 of both types of disc = $0.02

Licensing BDROM = $0.20

Licensing DVD = $0.05

 

Total cost for 5 DVDs = $0.15

Total cost for 1 BDROM = $0.25

after that you need to look into logistics though. the cost of the disc is not the only concern.

[NeverNude]