🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 09:24:04 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 20:54:31 -0700, PW
><emailad...@ifIremember.com> wrote:
>
>>And even if I had the bandwidth, I can't find out where to download
>>them from:
>
>>Metal Gear Solid V
>>Rise of the Tomb Raider
>
>I can totally feel for you. I had to download GTA5 on a super-slow DSL
>link; it took over a week. Too often publishers just assume that
>everybody has a fast, uncapped internet connection; even though the
>majority of people in the US now have internet access, a good chunk of
>them still are constrained to "sub-broadband speeds" (<10Mbps).
>Expecting these people to download a 50GB game at those speeds can
>only cost them sales.
>
>Worse is the games you buy in a store that only contain a Steam (or
>other client) installer and no actual gamefiles. I can't understand
>that logic. Even if the game version isn't up-to-date, by putting the
>data-files on the disc you can save the player from having to download
>10s of GBs. 
>
>That's why I always backup and archive my digital downloads to an
>external HDD; that way if I want to play the game again, I don't have
>to spend days watching the download gauge slowly tick to the right.
>
>
>(well, okay, the last isn't really that accurate anymore, since I
>finally gave up on DSL and finally have high-speed internet. These
>days its actually significantly faster for me to just download a game
>anew rather than pull out the HDD and let the game restore the backup.
>I still back everything up though, just in case I'm forced back into
>the slow-lane)
>>
>>Oh well!  I have too many games in waiting anyway.
>
>See? They cost themselves a sale. Silly publishers.
>


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Thanks Spalls!  I totally agree!  I really should figure out how to
back up my Steam, etc... games.

-pw