The soundtrack...

[Marael]

Am I the only one annoyed by the fact that the official soundtrack for ARR is ONLY being released on bluray discs? I mean, why not CDs, MP3 downloads, or slap it on itunes? Because, seriously, that's just asking for people to pirate it. When you only release it in one certain format, and a lot of people don't have it, or don't want to figure out how to rip it off of the disc from the bluray player attached to their TV onto some sort of storage media for transfer to another sysem that they can actually make use of it on, I can tell you exactly what's going to happen. They're all going to hit up torrent sites and DL it from the one guy who actually has a BD drive in his PC and bothered to buy an actual copy of it. Who came up with that idea? It's friggen stupid as hell. Seriously SE, do you guys not think before you do stupid shit like this or something?

[Quiz]

-something-

It's 2014, who either...

1. doesn't have a bluray drive of some sort

or

2. won't be upgrading to one in some way/shape/form sometime soon.

Hell a bluray drive for pc isn't even expensive. It was 4 euro more than a dvd/cd burner when I built this pc.

You either have a ps3 for this game or a pc that can easily be upgraded

[ReiszRie]

Am I the only one annoyed by the fact that the official soundtrack for ARR is ONLY being released on bluray discs? I mean, why not CDs, MP3 downloads, or slap it on itunes? Because, seriously, that's just asking for people to pirate it. When you only release it in one certain format, and a lot of people don't have it, or don't want to figure out how to rip it off of the disc from the bluray player attached to their TV onto some sort of storage media for transfer to another sysem that they can actually make use of it on, I can tell you exactly what's going to happen. They're all going to hit up torrent sites and DL it from the one guy who actually has a BD drive in his PC and bothered to buy an actual copy of it. Who came up with that idea? It's friggen stupid as hell. Seriously SE, do you guys not think before you do stupid shit like this or something?

Blu-ray discs offers audio quality that is vastly superior over CDs or digital formats.

Perhaps it isn't something a non-audiophile would care for but as an audiophile, Blu-ray audio discs are the obvious choice to maintain the high level of audio fidelity.

[TheUltimate3]

It's 2014, who either...

1. doesn't have a bluray drive of some sort

or

2. won't be upgrading to one in some way/shape/form sometime soon.

Hell a bluray drive for pc isn't even expensive. It was 4 euro more than a dvd/cd burner when I built this pc.

You either have a ps3 for this game or a pc that can easily be upgraded

I have yet to own a bluray anything.

Purely out of my own apathy towards physical media.

[Quiz]

I have yet to own a bluray anything.

Purely out of my own apathy towards physical media.

My point is, it isn't hard nor expensive to do so for anyone that would be interested in purchasing a cd (as the OP seemed to be).

They even have bluray disc hifi seperate units for bluray audio discs.

[Morsmordie]

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It's a matter of personal taste. I don't actually mind the fact that it's being released on blu-ray. The sound quality is amazing and they can cram so much more music on one disc. If they released that much music on a conventional CD then it would need 4 or 5 discs. The Blu-ray itself actually has the whole album in 320kbps mp3 format so you can have a digital copy of it on your PC/Mp3/Phone etc.

I honestly don't see a problem with it.

[Gooner_iBluAirJGR]

The OP wants options.

[kenada]

If it’s like Before Meteor, there will be an option under the extras menu to download MP3s of the soundtrack to your PC.

[odie]

CD/DVD players and drives are far more common than bluray. Bluray isn't even the common media standard. Sure, there are lots of people who have them. I don't buy blurays, as i can already stream HD movies. Not everyone is going to adopt bluray as there really isn't a reason to do so. Not offering it as a CD/DVD is limiting the customers willing to buy it.

[WHS]

Even still they could release the music over multiple dvd's which will handle the 96khz 24bit sample rate SE is using on the Bluray discs. DVD will go even higher to 192bit. Plus dvd will also handle the behind video clips of each song. Also they can store mp3 in 320kbps bit rate on the dvd just the same as bluray. The reason they gave for going to bluray wasn't the quality issue it was the space. They didn't want to have the customer swapping discs. One disc is what they wanted and advertised. DVD is more universal but I still prefer bluray myself and when given the option will buy it over the dvd or cd media. Here's the catch. No my car does not have bluray. But my phone does can play back the mp3's so it's all good.