Thread: Never ever again

The game is 11.4 gigs installed. The most a DVD can hold is 9 gigs... Do the math.

Originally Posted by WileECyte

The game is 11.4 gigs installed. The most a DVD can hold is 9 gigs... Do the math.

My guess is those DVDs are nothing more than something shiny to distract you while the game is downloading. Almost everyone I have spoken to has DLed about 11 gigs even if they had the DVDs.


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So my experience was slightly different. The game took about 10 - 15 minutes to install. First it installed origin (which I already had) then it began a download process. It was downloading extremely fast though. I think it was just verify the information on the disk and updating the beta client I had already downloaded or something. Perhaps the other guys who had to download it didn't have the beta client? Either way it's ridiculous to get a disc copy of something only to have to download the damn thing when you insert the discs. I would have been so mad to bring that game home, insert the disc thinking I'll be squading up in no time only to be told I have a nice 11 gig download on my hands. WTF were they thinking? Just make the game a digital download and save yourselves the costs of making boxes and discs.

It's not really downloading it. I thought the same thing and started to get pissed after buying the DVD version. I tested it by unplugging my connection and it kept "downloading" as it was installing.

Originally Posted by CivilWars

My guess is those DVDs are nothing more than something shiny to distract you while the game is downloading. Almost everyone I have spoken to has DLed about 11 gigs even if they had the DVDs.


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maybe some of it was downloaded...but my guess is the graphical stuff is all on the disk...you'd be surprised how much you can compress an image.

In my microprocessors class last semester, we were compressing images down to 75% and sometimes even 50% their original size. I'd imagine there are other things that can be compressed too.

but, seeing as how everybody's physical copies are taking ages to download, i'd imagine they may have gone a different route

may not be much but This was just posted by BF3 devs 2 hours ago:

"We have resolved the networking issues that were affecting PC users. Multilplayer and Origin authentication services have returned to normal.

Please accept our apologies for this inconvenience."

maybe this will have a substantial impact on the activation/installation issues people were having?

Hope you are able to get your game up and working Kill8ox; that's a killer pc you have, it'd be a shame if you weren't able to tear up BF3 with is

Thanx a bunch guy's it is working now .However my first impressions of the game are not that positive.Characters bouncing off like puppet's on strings ,and in my eyes even the BFBC2 was better. I hope that future patches would fix some of this.
Thank you all.