DOOM 2016 PC physical media

Lupus said:
They do the same thing now, I bought a physical copy of quite a few games and had to sit and wait for 20+ gig downloads
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still its quite big, and considering not everybody has internet, especially uncapped.
its kind of a strange situation,

I mean DL so much or buy the game copy physically.
I mean whats the point surely, might as well just give you a small card and tell you to DL and not give you any disk at all....

I do realize this is how things done nowdays, but again not everybody has the bandwith and speed necessary,
surely, this is causing more problems than it solves?

I mean surely people are saying, lets rather pirate the game, its almost the same size and has less restrictions in the 1st place....
 
I took the plunge to download it - took about 18 hours to download. And it was worth it! The game is awesome. I played the first two levels and didn't want stop at 2AM. Considered taking a sick day - lol. Unfortunately the adult in me decided not to though. Can't wait to get home tonight to continue.
 
How's performance for everyone? I've heard it's not too optimised yet but a big patch to use the Vulkan API is in the works. Hope Vulkan lives up to the hype and is a worthy alternative to DX12.
 
If this is the state of Doom, then I refuse to buy it.
You must supply the base game and then we can suffer with the updates.

Now the thing is, if you guys don't complain, then this will become the standard norm and they will get away with it with future titles.
 
Game is awesome.. Finished it yesterday on "Normal". Gonna go back and play on harder difficulties now and for secrets.

First game to pull me away from Destiny for a decent period of time.
 
Nirv said:
How's performance for everyone? I've heard it's not too optimised yet but a big patch to use the Vulkan API is in the works. Hope Vulkan lives up to the hype and is a worthy alternative to DX12.
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Runs very well on my rig... get between 90 - 100 fps.

got a 970GTX on old i7
 
medicnick83 said:
If this is the state of Doom, then I refuse to buy it.
You must supply the base game and then we can suffer with the updates.

Now the thing is, if you guys don't complain, then this will become the standard norm and they will get away with it with future titles.
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It already is the norm on PC. One company announced recently that their boxed PC games aren't going to even with a disc, just a code.

As for me, I haven't bought a boxed game in years. The biggest download I did for a single game was about 35/40 gigs. Just leave it on overnight and its done by the time I get back from work the next day, so no biggy.
 
eg2505 said:
I do wonder if this huge download might show up as piracy from your ISP?
or is it all done through steam so its considered legit?
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Are you serious? Why would a legit download be flagged as piracy? Just because it's big?
 
medicnick83 said:
If this is the state of Doom, then I refuse to buy it.
You must supply the base game and then we can suffer with the updates.

Now the thing is, if you guys don't complain, then this will become the standard norm and they will get away with it with future titles.
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I've seen games that have only come with the steam installer on the game disc.
 
This is happening for a lot of games now. Most games have 20GB+ file sizes and if you don't have to download a lot at the start, the patches are huge anyway. A Witcher 3 patch is over 10GB in size.

I still wonder how Skyrim was only 5GB.
 
eg2505 said:
thats what Im trying to find out exactly,
I mean what does your ISP see?
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Using Deep packet Inspection they can see everything. It's quite easy to tell Steam downloads from Torrents and News downloads. Most ISPs actually prioritize steam and deprioritize other downloads.
 
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