Software distribution disk Can we have it

[Felis]

1 gig patch is better than 15 gig game download plus we get a physical copy. what if we want to do a fresh pc build you want to download 15-20 gigs again ?

Small .exe usually have downloading which is what we are trying to avoid .

make it an .ISO download at the very least

Even if they give you the DVD for free, you still need to download a lot of patches
1. there is only ~4 GB space on the disk
2. There would be only 1 DVD in the box
3. The changes between disk production and final launch would be not on the disk

[Norack]

Not true -- read the fine print and you will see differently. Howevre, it IS a VERY high number ( i think like 200gigs)(at least for comcast it is) that unless you dowload asstons of movies you will never reach that amount. Look it up though because it is true.

It is true, although I have never in my life seen a ISP do this. The first time I ever heard of this was when xbox 360 wanted its customers to connect to xbox live for 6+ hours at a time to test d/l and u/l times to "improve" xbox live. I got some free stuff for my avatar from it and when i longed onto poker to play a bunch of ppl called me a fu**ing moron for letting xbox use up all my bandwidth cause know id have to pay my ISP thousands of dollars cause i went over the cap, i was just like.......... wtf are u talking about? XD

[SinisterJoint]

It is true, although I have never in my life seen a ISP do this. The first time I ever heard of this was when xbox 360 wanted its customers to connect to xbox live for 6+ hours at a time to test d/l and u/l times to "improve" xbox live. I got some free stuff for my avatar from it and when i longed onto poker to play a bunch of ppl called me a fu**ing moron for letting xbox use up all my bandwidth cause know id have to pay my ISP thousands of dollars cause i went over the cap, i was just like.......... wtf are u talking about? XD

Not sure if you just agree'd with me?? I'm confused

Look at the fine print for any US ISP and it will state the limit you are allowed to DL each month. I know for a fact comcast does it, cause they tried to cut me off once ( i had DL'd a crap ton of movies etc. etc.)

but they do have limits, 95% of people will never hit them though

found it --

Comcast will charge excessive downloaders.

It is to begin rolling out a system where those who download more than their monthly allowance will have to pay a fee. Comcast raised its download limit to 300GB after previously setting it at 250GB. Those who download 50GB more than their limit will automatically be charged an extra $10 on top of their monthly bill.


(i gave up searching for WOW's cable service cause world of crapcraft kept coming up)

[Zumi]

Comcast has a 250gb cap however they aren't currently enforcing the cap while they decide what to do. Because people were hitting the cap with a lot of Netflix/Youtube/Xbox Live ect. They didn't want people to feel like they couldn't use online services or whatever.

[Norack]

Not sure if you just agree'd with me?? I'm confused

Look at the fine print for any US ISP and it will state the limit you are allowed to DL each month. I know for a fact comcast does it, cause they tried to cut me off once ( i had DL'd a crap ton of movies etc. etc.)

but they do have limits, 95% of people will never hit them though

found it --

Comcast will charge excessive downloaders.

It is to begin rolling out a system where those who download more than their monthly allowance will have to pay a fee. Comcast raised its download limit to 300GB after previously setting it at 250GB. Those who download 50GB more than their limit will automatically be charged an extra $10 on top of their monthly bill.


(i gave up searching for WOW's cable service cause world of crapcraft kept coming up)

I was agreeing with you lol, did just a quick google search on my ISP i have charter, they give caps based on what kinda package you have, however I am paying for there most premium service and it says that, that has unlimited bandwith so yay me ^.^ XD.

[Zenaku]

Not sure if you just agree'd with me?? I'm confused

Look at the fine print for any US ISP and it will state the limit you are allowed to DL each month. I know for a fact comcast does it, cause they tried to cut me off once ( i had DL'd a crap ton of movies etc. etc.)

but they do have limits, 95% of people will never hit them though

found it --

Comcast will charge excessive downloaders.

It is to begin rolling out a system where those who download more than their monthly allowance will have to pay a fee. Comcast raised its download limit to 300GB after previously setting it at 250GB. Those who download 50GB more than their limit will automatically be charged an extra $10 on top of their monthly bill.


(i gave up searching for WOW's cable service cause world of crapcraft kept coming up)

oh they change it thank god before they use to just cancel your internet if you pass it to much to a few people where i live. I have A&TT and it's 250gb i pass that within 3weeks lol just watching videos online me and my gf. Seeing like we are home all day that all we do so we pass it quick. But thank god uverse does not have a cap yet if it does it should be 500gb because 250gb is bullshit lol.

[mbncd]

Here in Australia, almost every ISP has quite low data caps. For instance, Bigpond (it's Telstra's ISP and Telstra is one of the biggest telecommunication countries in the country) charges something like $80 for 50GB if you don't have any other service (like phones and stuff) through them. Shopping around, you can get 200gb for $70 and stuff like that but Aussie net as a whole is still pretty pathetic... A lot of places still don't have ADSL connections, even some places here in Brisbane (a capital city) only have dial up because of our crappy telecommunications infrastructure, and I don't know anyone in Australia who can download more than 2 megabytes a second (highest I've seen is 1.6).

Eventually the National Broadband Network is supposed to remedy many of these issues but for now Aussie net is a minefield of fine print, ridiculous charges, tiny caps, customer service reps that have accents too thick to understand them without a translator, and hilarious off-peak/on-peak time systems that further restrict any normal use of the internet.

I can very much empathise with anyone wanting to cut down on the download requirements of the game. However, as others have said, it's unlikely that such concessions will be made. We're a third world country as far as most companies are concerned, and even anyone in a big bustling country like America who for any reason can't get the latest and greatest internet connection is pretty much left to their own devices. All we can do is backup any patches we can get and hope to be in a better situation in the future.

Good luck!

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

AT&T does have a cap, but they haven't enforced it yet.
Reason is providers like Netflix, have cases in the courts because caps interfere with their ability to do business.

[Zenaku]

AT&T does have a cap, but they haven't enforced it yet.
Reason is providers like Netflix, have cases in the courts because caps interfere with their ability to do business.

AT&T have a cap and they did enforced it because 1 year ago my bill came 60$ because i was 100GB over the limit. Now that i have AT&T uverse it's the only service they have that does not enforced a cap and i hoping it never does or i going to end up going 50-100GB pass the limit every month lol

[kazaran]

Most ISP's, and that includes Comcast, ATT, and Verizon have data use caps per month. Unlimited Access is differet from the old unlimited bandwith.

Comcast has raised the cap, they also plan to raise it again for 2013, and not count streaming services linked to them (infinity watching) with the new higher speed systems (the 50mb, 100mb, 300mb, 50mmb down, 50, 100, 200 up services). Business lines have no cap.

ATT began throttling connections again, never liked them anyway. IT depends on what you signed up with. THey also have a cap.

Verizon, has a cap, but it's on 1 direction.

Caps, as far as with Comcast, are recommended usage caps. If you go over once, they let you know. If you go over to much again, they send a warning, if you go over yet again, repeatable taking advantage, then they can cancel your account. You realllly have to be pushing it to go over the new cap.