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Posted June 09, 2018
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timppu: USB flashsticks, or 2.5" USB HDDs for longer archiving, are much easier to use. Optical media is dying, I just helped a relative to buy a cheapo laptop (that I am now supposed to set up), and it doesn't even have an internal optical drive and I am not expecting the person to ever need one either.
It doesn't have to be DVDs, just some kind of physical media that games can be packaged in. DVDs are just the cheapest for that, even if you need a good number of them for it. I bet it was a Mac :P But seriously, I'd much rather have ODDs and the inconveniences associated with them than depend on prayer and the profitability of my town to an ISP if I want to play a modern game.

As far as I'm concerned, physical media shouldn't die out until all the countries sign an international agreement on minimum internet speed and begin enforcing it.
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Darvond: GOG, which is located in Poland would have to label, package, and ship these discs. International shipping is not cheap, or reliable.

Now I'm sure if you understand the logistics of that or supply and demand, that would not be cost feasible.

As a shot in the dark estimate, I would presume that the absolute need for a physical medium would be somewhere in the range of MOE over the millions of downloads per month. Not to mention that considering that many games are somewhere in the range of 40+ gigs (Say Witcher 3), a DVD would be a laughable non-solution. (You'd need an entire spool of em') And for smaller games, a DVD would be an amazing waste of space, considering many of them fit on a floppy disk or even less. (Akalabeth's main program and data are a paltry 146k, so small you could cram it into the opening RAM of many systems and still have room.)
Then we need some kind of alternate method. In the absence of one, I don't think letting the place you live being such a huge barrier to what games you get to play. Even 10 DVDs can be obtained for dirt cheap, and its still better than not ever having a chance of playing a game you want.
Post edited June 09, 2018 by Shadowstalker16
Posted June 09, 2018
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timppu: 1. Sign up to the nearest university (studying etno-philology or something as useless that is easy to get into), download all your GOG game installers at the dorm, and drop out of the university. Repeat as necessary. Heck, who knows, maybe at some point you will even get a doctorate degree in etno-philology, because why not?
Wouldn't even need to do that. Many university libraries are open to the public.
Posted June 09, 2018
Games are huge also because publishers stopped caring about compressing and optimizing them.
"Disk space isn't a problem anymore"... bulls**t!
Posted June 09, 2018
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phaolo: Games are huge also because publishers stopped caring about compressing and optimizing them.
"Disk space isn't a problem anymore"... bulls**t!
This.

Also... my condolescences, OP. You have a worse connection than mine, and mine is atrocious. It even stops functioning several times a day.
Posted June 09, 2018
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Sam2014: Their internet is the same speed, but slower.
I don't quite understand this sentence. :D
Posted June 09, 2018
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phaolo: Games are huge also because publishers stopped caring about compressing and optimizing them.
"Disk space isn't a problem anymore"... bulls**t!
YES! You said what I attempted to convey.


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Sam2014: Their internet is the same speed, but slower.
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Lexor: I don't quite understand this sentence. :D
Everyone in our area has the same provider.
When everyone is on, the connection is even slower,
like a water pipe with more than one user.

In the nearest town, the libraries, hospital and other
WiFi spots limit/forbid downloading. The hospital even
blocks Amazon and streaming.

My cell phone has a 5GB per month limit.
I can go over, but it is very expensive.

Thanks for everyone's ideas and suggestions.
It is obvious we are behind the rest of the world in bandwidth
in our area.

I pick games that are not huge to download,
but would enjoy more of them if we had faster
service.
Post edited June 09, 2018 by Sam2014
Posted June 10, 2018
You can easily check the games' download sizes, before buying them, on Yepoleb's GOG Database.
Posted June 10, 2018
You won't be playing Quantum Break anytime soon then, full install of 180gB including the movies.

But the answer seems pretty obvious, assuming you have other games to play in your backlog. You just play another game(s) whilst the one you just bought is downloading. And use a download manager so you don't have to start again if your connection shuts down. And let the PC run through the night when the traffic is lower. Those are the things I did in the old days when I had a 5kb dialup connection and wanted to download something around 200M.

Please don't tell me you don't have other games to play whilst waiting for downloads! Everyone has the backlog. Everyone.
Posted June 10, 2018
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Sam2014: We live in the country and have s-lo-w- internet....
as in 172 kbs down speed. It will take me a week
to download the game.
Damn, that's even slower than mine. I feel your pain.

If you have some friends / family in town with a better connection, maybe you can connect your phone to their wireless and use that to download the game files. I've done that a couple times for gOg games, when we pop over to Mom's place Friday evenings. Then transfer your files to the PC, install, enjoy!

Edit: looks like others have made similar suggestions. Do want to point out that you can do it directly with your phone, though. Or at least, that used to work. I haven't tried in a while.
Posted June 10, 2018
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Sam2014: New games seem to be getting bigger and bigger.
I recall when 800mb was HUGE, but I'm looking
at purchasing Syberia 3, but it is 20+ GB

We live in the country and have s-lo-w- internet....
as in 172 kbs down speed. It will take me a week
to download the game.

I'm currently attempting to download Fallout 3,
@153kbs It will only take 10 hours for 1 of 2 the
4GB files, so by tomorrow evening, maybe I'll
have the game. LOL

It's too bad we can't pay GOG to mail out discs
for these HUGE game files.
This would be a good opportunity to start a wishlist (if there isn't already one) for Gog to provide real world delivery of extra large game files for those in internet connection disadvantaged areas.
Posted June 10, 2018
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White_Barry: if there isn't already one
There's a couple of them:

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site#search=physical
Posted June 10, 2018
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White_Barry: if there isn't already one
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drmike: There's a couple of them:

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site#search=physical
This seems to be the top rated one if people want to vote. I don't have this problem but maybe someone who does can make a thread of it to draw attention.

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/physical_distribution_option
Posted June 10, 2018
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CMOT70: You won't be playing Quantum Break anytime soon then, full install of 180gB including the movies.

But the answer seems pretty obvious, assuming you have other games to play in your backlog. You just play another game(s) whilst the one you just bought is downloading. And use a download manager so you don't have to start again if your connection shuts down. And let the PC run through the night when the traffic is lower. Those are the things I did in the old days when I had a 5kb dialup connection and wanted to download something around 200M.

Please don't tell me you don't have other games to play whilst waiting for downloads! Everyone has the backlog. Everyone.
180GB? unreal....
Backlog, what's a backlog LOL

I recall downloading a demo for SubCulture-120MB-
took a couple of days or so(AOL 14k Dial-up ), was so disappointed
after waiting so long to try it.
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