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Digital Duke4?
by Steve Gibson, Feb 16, 2005 10:57am PSTWell everyone around here who put more than a moment of thought in to the industry probably realizes that digital delivery is set to become a huge part of the game industry. Half-Life 2 was a huge step and now it looks like 3DRealms is now hopping aboard the digital delivery train. Here is a quote from Scott Miller about Gamesxtream a Steam-like service.
"Games xStream is the first and only online delivery platform that can satisfy a gamer's desire to buy a game on impulse and start playing minutes later, regardless of the size or complexity of the game. 3D Realms is extremely excited by this ground breaking technology, and we plan to use it to sell our future releases"There seem to be a dozen new game streaming technology companies showing up every time you blink. Try to keep the Duke4 jokes to a minimum and save your comedic skills for the Apollo or something.
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I hope 3DR don't get arrogant, they haven't done anything interesting since Clinton was getting down with fat chicks in the Oval Office. Newt Gingrich. If they lock their stuff down with yet another obnoxious authentication scheme then they should expect a far rougher ride than Valve ever got.
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Please give me something extra for buying it online
Thanks
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http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=785423&an=0&page=0#785423
and btw: become a dnf cult member.
What happens when i buy a game from company A. A few years later company A folds due to losses and can't sustain the content delivery system... Do i lose my game because it can't authenticate?
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Fucking shit name, whoever thought of that needs to be shot. Repeatedly. Then punched in the face.
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Still them claiming "instant playability" I'd find hard to beleive - surely it would have to grab at least 200mb of basic textures / 1 or 2 map files, the engine itself and sounds..........
Infact (speculating here) I'd say the amount of physical mb/data content of a game required for one level vs all 50 of the levels of a game would still equate to 2/3 of the games entire size - just due to "base textures" and "base sounds" that kind of thing.
Let's assume the game is 3gb ... that's still really 1gb you're going to need initially.
That's probably not going to be instantaneous to download then - so i'm skeptical.
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3DR: 8yrs for the game...nevermind.
*sigh* Finish the game guys, then think about other cool stuff.
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i mean, having one game management system is enough - there is no reason to have more then one and i could imagine that it would be pretty easy for 3drealms to say "hey, we want to use steam too" and they could make it work.
i just dont want to have to manage 1000 different game management systems on my computer - one is enough, and now everyone is going to try to do it, and that sucks. :(
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Reduces losses due to pirating – subscribers have to be online and authenticated on the system to play
Sounds like Steam - Limited ability to resell or buy used = Not interested
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http://www.gamexstream.com/
If not, what game is that....
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Whatever it is, I don't like this at all. One trashy steam is more than enough. I don't want to fill my system with crap just to play a game, thank you very much.
The nerve!
That said, I haven't been at all happy with steam. I'm really not going to be happy with a dozen steam like clones.
But I'm not too happy seeing 3DR jump on this bandwagon, especially since they picked some 3rd party service I've never heard of before, and with a retarded play on the word 'extreme'.
Digital vaporware--genius!
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digital delivery done right: savage, anything you can just download and play
done wrong: steam, anything memory resident and hooked into the game
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I don't believe I've heard of them developing anything else other than Duke4.
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distribute it.
sign me up.
*knock on wood* i've not had a single problem with steam(purchasing hl2 over it) and it's basically run flawlessly for me.
though this system will *not* be steam, i'm hoping it'll be as easy to use and trouble free as steam was imho of course.
p.s. kaisersoze was here!
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P.S. Sry Scot but a thread of the Duke without a Duke joke is a sacrilege....
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