To the makers of Doom.

[Woogie]

bla bla bla internet speeds bla bla bla

As stated previously...I had no internet for a year and a half while living in London, I got on with it and took my PC elsewhere. I appreciate that is not doable for everyone but....see below

Can't remember which they were off the top of my head - but I've had atleast 2 games recently where I've preloaded around 30GB and then had 12-20GB patches once they go live due to various reasons including major bugs found at the last minute - which anyone with the disc version would have to do anyway.

Which is exactly the point I am trying to get too but people seem to be missing it. I am also assuming these are the same people that would not download these patches and then complain the game is a buggy unplayable mess

 

[jigger]

No people aren't missing that point. If the game needs a patch then it needs a patch. If the game needs a 55gb patch then it's not a finished game.

Some people might not be happy about asking a friend to help or carting a PC round to someone else's house just to download a game.

If you buy the game in store you should actually receive the game IMO.

 

[kunoichia]

its 2016. I realize some people in some areas have **** internet, but come on.

 

[jigger]

Yeah in 2016 it's unacceptable to buy an item in a shop and expect to receive what you paid for. Or in this case less.

I forgot it was 2016

 

[Columbo]

Yeah in 2016 it's unacceptable to buy an item in a shop and expect to receive what you paid for.

You bought Doom, you got Doom.
You then additionally got some support from the developer in terms of performances patches and bug fixes, many games don't get that. The fact it was 55gb is irrelevant.

 

[spoffle]

55gb is huge by any standards. Regardless of ISP allowance.

I have to agree, 55gb is still a massive download.

No it's not. Blurays are 50GB for roughly 2-4 hours of video (extras accounted for in the 4 hours part).

 

[HAz]

Umm I wish I could even get the Max adsl speed

 

[HAz]

Doom took me 3 days to download. Half life when it was released would have taken half that time on 56k.

 

[spoffle]

Doom took me 3 days to download. Half life when it was released would have taken half that time on 56k.

And how long ago did half life come out?

 

[HAz]

Pretty sure that 99% of us buy the disks or 'disk' because our internet sucks

 

[HAz]

And how long ago did half life come out?

Exactly. Just goes to show some of us have slower internet in today's standards of what we had in 56k days!

 

[breadturbo]

The UK fails badly at countryside internet.
A friend in michigan in the US whose nearest neighbour lives 10km away uses laserlink to the nearest town 15km away (admittedly on a 20m tower) and depending on weather gets from 10-20mbits

 

[Werewolf]

The UK fails badly at countryside internet.
A friend in michigan in the US whose nearest neighbour lives 10km away uses laserlink to the nearest town 15km away (admittedly on a 20m tower) and depending on weather gets from 10-20mbits

That sounds like an unusual exception to the rule for rural internet in the US.

Due to the lack of anything like effective competition in many parts of the US they're behind us on internet connectivity.

 

[BluD]

Doom took me 3 days to download. Half life when it was released would have taken half that time on 56k.

Have ya got any friends/family with faster net that live near by? I would do a quick drive-by update with my laptop

I have nps with friends/family updating and downloading around mine.

 

[Woogie]

Exactly. Just goes to show some of us have slower internet in today's standards of what we had in 56k days!

Yes it has nothing to do with the drastic change in graphic and sound quality in the gaming world. Half life if I remember came on a single CD not even a DVD so was less than 700mb

 

[WantoN]

Can't remember the last game I installed from disc

55gb downloaded in about 20 minutes for me

Holy hell. That equates to about 46 megabytes per second download speed?! I only get 25 megabytes and I've 200 megabit broadband. What connection do you have?

As to the issue at hand, wouldn't bother me due to my connection. But I'd be pretty ****** off if I bought a game and had to wait 16 hour to play it.

That said, at least we don't live in the days where we have to insert a physical disc every time

 

[ChrisJSY]

Download the game over night or while you are at work and worry about more important things.

It's not just about the time taken, it's about caps.

 

[HRL]

My Virgin connection is unlimited downloads. Hit 3Tb last month so I'm making the most of it.

 

[Rroff]

The UK fails badly at countryside internet.
A friend in michigan in the US whose nearest neighbour lives 10km away uses laserlink to the nearest town 15km away (admittedly on a 20m tower) and depending on weather gets from 10-20mbits

US is way behind us generally - I've a couple of friends in Michigan who for a long time had only 144kbit/s down - they recently got around 15MBit/s on a good day with a messy laserlink/wifi setup - one actually moved just to get cable.

EDIT: Dunno if its still the case but last time I was out there a lot of rural areas the only mobile data was still some variant of GSM that was basically beamed down the highways - so the moment you left the main route you'd lose all connection.

 

[HAz]

Yes it has nothing to do with the drastic change in graphic and sound quality in the gaming world. Half life if I remember came on a single CD not even a DVD so was less than 700mb

You're clearly missing the point. Think of it as inflation where £10 in the 80s was worth a lot more in today's standards.
Things costed more and back in the late 90's top of the range games with top graphics were huge! yes 700 meg was massive then but come 17 years or so later and the internet is more than just some blue background pages and small images.

If its taking me twice as long to download a current game now than it was 17 years ago something has gone wrong surely. ...