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AJF 
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| re: All games available as Digital Downloads on release day? (Posted on 1/8/13 at 10:40 am to LSU_postman)
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Steam is the gaseous form of water. It is used to power some locomotives
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brucevilanch 
Alabama Fan
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Member since May 2011
8969 posts
| re: All games available as Digital Downloads on release day? (Posted on 1/8/13 at 10:45 am to stout)
For realz
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kballa6 
LSU Fan
Houston
Member since Mar 2009
2169 posts
| re: All games available as Digital Downloads on release day? (Posted on 1/8/13 at 10:59 am to stout)
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Too many people in the US that still don't have fast enough internet to take advantage of digital downloads.
You mean poor people
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kballa6
LSU Fan
Houston
Member since Mar 2009
2169 posts
| re: All games available as Digital Downloads on release day? (Posted on 1/8/13 at 10:59 am to stout)
According to Facebook, killing Bugs Bunny and the gang.
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brucevilanch
Alabama Fan
guntersvegas
Member since May 2011
8969 posts
| re: All games available as Digital Downloads on release day? (Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:01 am to kballa6)
That
And people who only have DSL as an option.
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Broke
LSU Fan
AKA Buttercup
Member since Sep 2006
49454 posts
| re: All games available as Digital Downloads on release day? (Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:05 am to kballa6)
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You mean poor people
Watch your mouth whore.
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SmellslikeKevinBacon
LSU Fan
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2012
822 posts
| re: All games available as Digital Downloads on release day? (Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:38 am to stout)
I wish it were that way now. I would buy more games.
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SmellslikeKevinBacon
LSU Fan
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2012
822 posts
| re: All games available as Digital Downloads on release day? (Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:41 am to Broke)
You can re-download games as it is now from Xbox live. i do not see this being an issue. i bought a new 360 and all i had to do is log into my Xbox live account and all the games I had downloaded previously all i had to do was download again. No charge.
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sbr2
Member since Apr 2011
8396 posts
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| re: All games available as Digital Downloads on release day? (Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:46 am to SmellslikeKevinBacon)
In theory I love digital distribution, but what happens when/if ISP data caps start tightening up. Games that have multiple platform developments have hovered around the DVD data capacity, but aren't both next-gen consoles rumored to have Blu-ray (perhaps meaning much larger game files)? I love the Witcher 2 but having to download a 16GB game and then two subsequent 9GB patches within a month is just stupid, I don't look forward to that with mediocre high-speed internet options.
This post was edited on 1/8 at 11:47 am
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Bryon Bojengles III
LSU Fan
Member since Nov 2012
5091 posts
| re: All games available as Digital Downloads on release day? (Posted on 1/8/13 at 12:23 pm to Brettesaurus Rex)
What happens when you run out of HDD space?
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DoUrden 
Tennessee Fan
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Member since Oct 2011
5494 posts
| re: All games available as Digital Downloads on release day? (Posted on 1/8/13 at 12:39 pm to Bryon Bojengles III)
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What happens when you run out of HDD space?
Uninstall games you don't play, I have a 1tb hd and a 240 gig ssd and I have about 120 games installed with about 200 gigs of space left.
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willymeaux
LSU Fan
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2012
1749 posts
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| re: All games available as Digital Downloads on release day? (Posted on 1/8/13 at 12:46 pm to DoUrden)
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Uninstall games you don't play, I have a 1tb hd and a 240 gig ssd and I have about 120 games installed with about 200 gigs of space left.
Or have it to where you can buy new hard drives that are easily interchangeable with the system. Just have the hard drive plug into a slot, similar to how game cartridges worked.
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SG_Geaux 
USA Fan
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Member since Aug 2004
42247 posts
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| re: All games available as Digital Downloads on release day? (Posted on 1/8/13 at 1:34 pm to SaintLSUnAtl)
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It usually takes 10-15 minutes to download a game.
It ain't gonna take 10 to 15 when you are dealing with a game that fits on a BluRay
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RATeamWannabe
USA Fan
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2009
9400 posts
Online
| re: All games available as Digital Downloads on release day? (Posted on 1/8/13 at 1:41 pm to stout)
Gf's since friday
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SG_Geaux
USA Fan
Googolplex Posts
Member since Aug 2004
42247 posts
Online
| re: All games available as Digital Downloads on release day? (Posted on 1/8/13 at 1:52 pm to sbr2)
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I love the Witcher 2 but having to download a 16GB game and then two subsequent 9GB patches within a month is just stupid,
You don't play MMO's on the PC do you ?
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sbr2
Member since Apr 2011
8396 posts
Online
| re: All games available as Digital Downloads on release day? (Posted on 1/8/13 at 1:57 pm to SG_Geaux)
Other than Planetside 2 beta, I haven't dabbled in MMOs since EVE. I know they are ridiculous though
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oauron
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Sep 2011
4292 posts
| re: All games available as Digital Downloads on release day? (Posted on 1/8/13 at 1:59 pm to Brettesaurus Rex)
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Only if the price isn't still 59.99 like most games still are on Xbox live. If you make the games back down to say 39.99 available via digital download, that would be pretty great.
No chance in hell. There might be a small discount ($5 tops), but MS is far too hungry. Look at what they already offer and its full retail price.
Sony is doing it right with the Vita by offering $4-5 off the digital versions (which do launch day and date with the retail version).
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taylork37 
Ohio State Fan
The social pipeline
Member since Mar 2010
6706 posts
| re: All games available as Digital Downloads on release day? (Posted on 1/8/13 at 2:56 pm to stout)
Will never happen.
Games are already too big and only getting bigger. like it has been said already....bandwidth caps from ISPs will make this impossible.
Even if they don't cap your bandwidth, you are talking about games that will be upward of 25 GB possible and more with newer versions of Blu Ray expected to be on the new consoles.
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tom
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2007
2228 posts
| re: All games available as Digital Downloads on release day? (Posted on 1/8/13 at 3:11 pm to taylork37)
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.bandwidth caps from ISPs will make this impossible.
What kind of caps do you people have? I have never even approached mine and I use the hell out of it.
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taylork37
Ohio State Fan
The social pipeline
Member since Mar 2010
6706 posts
| re: All games available as Digital Downloads on release day? (Posted on 1/8/13 at 3:14 pm to tom)
Well not even so much now, but in the future. ISPs are moving in this direction.
But if you are going to download a game normally meant for BluRay with next gen graphics you are going to be wasting a lot data on just downlaoding a game.
BluRay are 25GB capacity I believe now, and the newer versions are going to me bigger.
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