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Re: Battlefield One -- What a game

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From: Idaho Homo Joe
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 19:08
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"PW" <emailad...@ifIremember.com> wrote in message 
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> On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:59:36 +0000, Toby Newman <goo...@asktoby.com>
> wrote:
>
>>On 2016-10-29, PW <emailad...@ifIremember.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 21:08:41 +0000 (UTC), rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
>>> (Ross Ridge) wrote:
>>>
>>>>PW  <emailad...@ifIremember.com> wrote:
>>>>>But it's download only.  No plans for a DVD so I will not buy it.  I
>>>>>just bought Civ VI from Amazon.  Only one DVD disc and all it did was
>>>>>to download the bonus pack.  I was up and running with it in about 15
>>>>>minutes.
>>>>
>>>>That's pretty impressive.  I would've expected a huge 10Gb day one 
>>>>patch,
>>>>just like pretty much every other game these days.
>>>>
>>>> Ross Ridge
>>>
>>>
>>> *---
>>>
>>> I am pretty sure that the game/Steam just downloaded teh Aztec
>>> Civilization pack. I did not preorder it but I guess it counted as a
>>> poreorder.  I will check again.  But no major patches that I know of.
>>> I am still going through the tutorial as it has been many years since
>>> I played a Civ game!
>>>
>>> Some of the games that Amazon, etc.... carry say "No disc".  I don't
>>> know the point of that since it's just a DVD in a jewel case and no
>>> keycards or whatever.
>>
>>I want to get Deus Ex Mankind Divided for Christmas but can't find a
>>boxed version for my family to buy for me anywhere.
>>Looks like it'll have to be Steam gift card which is less nice to wrap
>>for a present.
>
>
> *----
>
> Well, another change due to the general public (one of my favorite
> bands, by the way) :-)
>
> Not being able to purchase games and other software on CD/DVD
> absolutely will stop me from upgrading my computer, graphic card, and
> everything else.
>
> I might as well by a console, but which one?
>
> -pw

Are you ever gonna stop pissing & moaning?
Go fuck your mother, loser! 
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