(Game Talk - Chapter two) do you want the new csi game to be on cd or dvd PART ONE

[Dangerzone]

i have been getting negative feedback over the fact that the 4th game may be on dvd instead of cd
so tell me wether you

A) want the game to be on cd
B) want it on dvd
C) you do not care what format it is on


thanks

[Poseidon]

Dangerzone 50,
a) I want the game on cd.


P.s. I checked Gamestop.com yesterday and the ETA is the seventh of march , 2006.

[thekay]

A new poll has been suggested by Dangerzone50...

The new game is coming out soon, well in the mid-spring time if it comes on schedule.

What format would you like the game in? (eg. what format would you buy?)

a) the DVD format (less discs the better!)
b) the CD format
c) don't care, when I see it, I'm buying it!
d) I don't want it

[Dangerzone]

the verified offical release date is march 21 (check my post in the "pre release thoughts" topic)
and the game is going to be on 4 cds
however i still want you opinion of wether you prefer cds or dvds

[Poseidon]

I was the first one to vote when the poll was set up. I prefer the new game on CD'S.

[thekay]

Doh- sorry I messed up the wording of the poll- I was thinking you wanted to know which format people would buy rather than prefer (as in which direction they should take in the release of future games). For now, most PC game companies will release games in both formats for users to choose from as not everyone has DVD-Roms yet... or actually have one, but don't know it. My CDRom is a better quality (reads way faster) than my DVDRom (which is in the older and slower computer as well), so it's CD's for me until I finally decide to upgrade Big Bertha (black dell with the giant antithesis of a flat screen monitor- you can often see it in the bargain dell ads, but we got it a few years ago when it was "cutting edge" and not so much a bargain )

[Udvarnoky]

I am very much against releasing it on CD format, especially if what you said about them cutting out portions of the game because the don't want to press six CDs is true. I'm tired of publishers buying into this myth that a significant amount of people in North America don't have DVD-ROM drives. I mean seriously, they've been standard for PCs fore a long, long time. If your computer doesn't have one, it's unlikely it is capable of playing modern video games anyway. This has nothing to do with having a high-end computer; if you bought your computer within the last I don't know how many years, you should have a DVD drive. In Europe it's become standard to release games on PC DVD, but over here we get a bunch of CDs and an annoying installation in order to accomodate the three people who don't have DVD-ROM drives. And now it's going to cost us some of the game. Brilliant.

[Dangerzone]

honestly i do not care much anymore about the pc version
i want the xbox 360 version when it comes out
i will buy the pc version in the meantime just because it is the first to come out
but now that i found out that they have cut out some things from the pc version that was the "nudge" i needed to help my decision in what version to get
but since the x360 version is not due till fall i will not be able to return my pc version and get the x360 version but i will but the x360 version on top of my pc version just for the extra content
(my shop is very successfull and i have a lot of money to burn but, but this may not be the case for everyone else)

[Poseidon]

Just because you want yours on DVD, Udvarnoky, doesn't mean that you have the unmitigated gall to dictate to others what they should buy or deprive them of the convenience of using CD'S. We are in a democracy.

[Udvarnoky]

Last time I checked we were stating opinions here. Sorry if i misunderstood.

CDs are hardly more convenient seeing as you'll need four discs instead of one. Even if you have a slow DVD drive, the installation is what makes the difference, and in this case where it's a matter of not getting the whole game...

But maybe I'm off my nut here. Who doesn't have a DVD-ROM drive and expects to run a PC game released in 2006?