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Article #697640Re: Dishonored 2 For £19.99 - Respectable UK Seller
From: Spalls Hurgenson
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 13:26
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 13:26
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 00:45:33 -0000, "Trimble Bracegirdle" <no-spam@never.spam> wrote: >I miss 'games-in-a-Box' as my Internet connection is not very fast >and downloading 30 GB plus takes days. Oh, I definitely can relate. Until recently I was stuck on dog-slow DSL (on a good day I'd get 1.5Mbps) and the time it took to download modern games was a major consideration as to whether or not I would buy it from a digital or retail storefront. I seem to recall that downloading GTA5 took me nearly a week. It was abysmal. There was a reason that the first thing I did after downloading a game was to immediately archive it onto an external hard-drive. These days I've upgraded my downlink and the same game takes less than an hour, but old habits - and a worry about increasing internet rates, thanks Ajit Pai - mean I still archive everything to an external drive. Digital downloads have some advantages, but they are no panacea. I just really hate wrestling with optical disks. ;-)
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