Jones: APB "has to ship on a DVD"
Not comfortable ditching retail yet.
Realtime Worlds boss Dave Jones has said that he needs Electronic Arts' publishing might because he's "not really comfortable" doing away with retail on a 6GB game.
"At the end of the day, we still have effectively a big client to distribute. It's still a traditional game in that this is a five or six gig game. It has to ship on a DVD," Jones told vg247 at Develop.
"Are we at the point yet where we feel comfortable that people want to bypass retail completely and download five or six gigs? No, we're not really comfortable with that.
"If that points comes in the future, which everyone's talking about, I think we'll be reactive to that. We won't try to be proactive in trying to make that happen."
Jones' keynote at Develop yesterday focused on taking your game completely online, much as he has with APB, obviously. You can see how the speech went in the transcript of our live coverage.
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Means I can get a lower price on amazon!
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It is better off on DVD anyway and as donnie080208 mentioned most do tend to like to have a box for their shelves, room floor wherever they may put them. If you have a box to notice you are more likely to remember the game, than something that may be just on the hard drive. Out of sight out of mind sort of thing.
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"If you have a box to notice you are more likely to remember the game, than something that may be just on the hard drive. Out of sight out of mind sort of thing."
Are we saying that people will forget they own a game if they don't have a box sat there next to their PC?
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It happens to me even when I do have a game box stacked next to my PC
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I can pay 40€ for a crap 3Mb/320Kb ADSL. I could cope with stupidly a huge latency (say over 100ms in the best case). But I won't accept that cable and DSL companies are allowed to screw their users big time:
-Hei young man, want broadband?
-Yessir.
-Easy! Call this costly phone number and say "bang me!".
-May I see the contract?
-It's on the website.
-I've looked for half an hour and haven't found it.
-You must be dumb... er... look again, it must be hidden somewhere. Use the "zoom" feature on your browser.
-Got it! Wait... It says "You will not swap provider, no matter how bad the service is, within 18 months or we will pwn your wife!".
-So? You wanted broadband, right?
-God... and if I swap provider after those 18 months what will happen?
-We'll play deaf and keep charging you for the service.
-I will go to court and tell the bank not to pay you!
-Then we will cut the service, keep charging money and put your name on a blacklist of bad users so as nobody gives you broadband.
-But... fuck... This cannot be legal...
-IT IS!!! HAHAHAHA!!! ENJOY THE SUN, KID, THIS IS SPAIN!!!
Sorry for the rant. So, what was the post about? Ah, heavy DLC. The guy is right, 6 gigs is too much for a download-only game.
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As long as there's competition, I've been ready to ditch boxed games for a long time.
I've have never understood the argument about wanting the boxes (unless you consider yourself a 'collector' I suppose). What does "I like the physicality of ownership" even mean?
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There is, however, a good point for people liking boxed games: If someone keeps his PS1 games, he will always be able to play them as long as there is a PS1 available (his own or, if broken, a second hand unit). With DLC, however, there is a slim chance for that game to remain playable in 10 years time, I don't see Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo keeping DLC and account information online forever... if your Xbox 360 dies, that copy of Braid (DRM binded to that SKU) dies.
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*waits for the inevitable*
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What an unmemorable game title is APB? I clicked the follow up link just to learn that this is no abbreviation... They prolly wanted to go for a GTA-esque title (as that sells so well), but might have forgotten that it still is Grand Theft Auto. Bad game titles definitely cost sales, so it's not trivial of a matter.
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Steam. Not EA.
Thanks,
YMH
6GB is not a big deal. Even without Steam preloading, that would probably only require waiting overnight, but I'll keep my PC chugging away at it for a week if it means I can get it at a sensible price, have access to it anywhere, and have an unlimited number of downloads of it in future, as with most Steam games (when they don't inflate the price for no apparent reason other than that they can, that is).
Also, surely DLC = DownLoadable Content = add-on stuff - i.e. content - for an existing game? I doubt DLC can correctly be used to mean a whole game, which is by definition infrastructure (code etc.) and content.
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I just got Entrenchment the add-on for Sins of a Solar Empire on Impulse the other day it took only a few minutes for a 330 mb download and didn't have to fiddle with discs installs.
Also it takes much longer to install from discs versus a click on a file on a esata harddrive. Thats even without DRM. Watching Sims 3 install and having the disc grate bit by bit to install a file is painful. This bottleneck also has to be removed in the components of the computer and how the operating system chooses to do things.