Gta 5 pc retail copys takes up 7 discs

[NeverBackDown]

Yeah i'm crapping my pants over this because I had to spend 13 minutes downloading a file while I sat on my PC doing other things. It ruined the game for me

JR

Some people have slow internet and using anything else makes their bandwidth suffer for the download. Only thing that ruined the game for me was literally playing it

 

[Bartacus]

Some people have slow internet and using anything else makes their bandwidth suffer for the download. Only thing that ruined the game for me was literally playing it

I'm one of those poor SOBs with crappy internet (ie less than 2Mbps down, less than 0.5Mbps up). I'd take this game on TWELVE damn DVDs, as long as I don't have to download it.

 

[Innocent159]

I'm one of those poor SOBs with crappy internet (ie less than 2Mbps down, less than 0.5Mbps up). I'd take this game on TWELVE damn DVDs, as long as I don't have to download it.

+1 in this. That is the only reason I still have a optical drive. Prefer dvd over download due to my speeds. Before I had 2Mbps softcapped and i got like 77kbps download. Didn't even bother with upload speeds. Uncapped gave me a reasonable increase

 

[TPC]

If you download GTA through the Rockstar downloader and not with steam you need the windows media player to be installed. What? lol

 

[AlienALX]

I have pre-ordered the retail copy, but I hope it contains a steam code as I don't have a DVD drive :/

Yeah me too. Thankfully I keep an external kicking around.

 

[theDTP]

What the actual F*CK!?

I am downloading through the Rockstar Launcher which is fully loading my first GPU and using 25% of my CPU, not only that... The speed was 8mb/s for the first 10gb then went down to 500-800kb/s so I left it for many many hours and I was 44/59GB done then a few hours later I was 56/62GB done, woke up this morning and I am 35/54GB done.

What even...

 

[Feronix]

Okay, 'Don't use the Rockstar Warehouse'

Noted

 

[theDTP]

Okay, 'Don't use the Rockstar Warehouse'

Noted

Indeed, use Steam

 

[ShaunB-91]

I just saw this in game, GAME! Not been in there for aaages.

Whoever said this game was boring, its far from, its bloody amazeballs. I bought it for PS3, PS4 and I'll buy it for PC too.

 

[AlienALX]

+1 in this. That is the only reason I still have a optical drive. Prefer dvd over download due to my speeds. Before I had 2Mbps softcapped and i got like 77kbps download. Didn't even bother with upload speeds. Uncapped gave me a reasonable increase

I'm on 70mb optical now but before that I lived in a very remote farm house in Dorset and we had 2mb with a 100gb cap on it and were paying £50 a month just for the internet !!

So obviously at around £50 a month all in for 70mb optical I feel pretty blessed now.

The crap we used to get too. We lived about 1/4 of a mile from the nearest telegraph pole so our phone wires went across a bloody horse field and there were always trees coming down severing the cables. Absolute nightmare !

However, I'm one of these that wants VFM so I want the media. I have a large oak dresser cabinet I keep all of my games in Plus buying the media usually works out cheaper than buying on Steam any way. I paid £24 for BF4 they wanted £40 on Steam.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Plus buying the media usually works out cheaper than buying on Steam any way. I paid £24 for BF4 they wanted £40 on Steam.

Not true. It just depends where you get it. I get digital cheaper than steam and still use those games on steam. Just depends.

 

[barnsley]

Not true. It just depends where you get it. I get digital cheaper than steam and still use those games on steam. Just depends.

In the UK its cheaper to buy physical then digital now, especially if you preorder. Only by a few pounds but I'd not mind paying that considering how long it took for me to download it...

 

[cooperman]

What are dvd's anyway....
Why dident thay put the retail copy on a bluray or just not have a retail copy?

 

[JR23]

What are dvd's anyway....
Why dident thay put the retail copy on a bluray or just not have a retail copy?

The game has a significant amount of offline content so it would be silly not to make it available to those who do not have the internet or have extremely limited internet. Of that minority of PC gamers without decent internet access I think it's safe to assume far more of them have DVD drives. Making it available on blu-ray would only limit the potential market as after all all Blu Ray drives can read DVD's.

I'm sure there are others who just like to have physical media they can touch too and tbh the artwork and the maps are part of the game. GTA handbooks make for some epic casual reading.

JR

 

[shambles1980]

i like my dvd drives lol. True they rareley get used any more and its faster to install a OS from usb..
But there are times when they are useful. Cant think of 1 off the top of my head right now lol. But i swear there are times when they are useful..

As for distributing games on usb. its something i have thought would be better. im sure they could lock them to read only or just use some eeprom system so people dont accidentaly wipe it.
provided you still have a serial key i dont see how copy protection would be an issue, atleast it wouldnt be any more of an issue than it is now.

 

[Greenback]

In the UK its cheaper to buy physical then digital now, especially if you preorder. Only by a few pounds but I'd not mind paying that considering how long it took for me to download it...

Cheapest I have seen for a download key was £30 at cjs but that's without any bonus $

 

[wrenaudrey]

Anybody know if the physical disk copy on amazon for this game is going to be able to play from Steam?

Last game i bought physically was BF4 and that game with an Origin key. Which i used to activate but it installed from the disks.

 

[Dark NighT]

As far as i know none of the retail copies go on steam, but steam launches the rockstar launcher anyway so yeah, there is no direct need for steam if you dont care about hours being logged.

 

[AlienALX]

Well for the past four years I've always found it cheaper to buy from Amazon, physical copies. South Park was £22 and £35 on Steam. That was one of the most recent games I've bought, just shows you how crap PC gaming has been lately.

I've got a massive collection of games that only started out because Steam take the wee when it comes to pricing.