[DVD vs. CD for software] I don't understand.

The Dopefish · Apr 9, 2004

I don't understand why people don't mind swapping CDs during install. Remember five years ago when one CD was enough? Now people apparently don't mind needed 3-5 discs to install games.

Did I miss the concept of being lazy, and DVDs?

Twisted Metal · Apr 9, 2004

Why would we mind? You only need to install once and then it stays on the hard drive forever. What's the big deal?

Agent_5 · Apr 9, 2004

I don't mind it that much when it's only around 2 cds, but when it gets up to 6 (a la 2k4) I start to get irate. I'm usually not that interested in sitting there waiting for the installer to prompt me to swap discs.

Warm Pudgy · Apr 9, 2004

i dont care really
i have every thing stored on hard drive anyways

OO7MIKE · Apr 9, 2004

Because it just makes more sense to put lots of data onto one disk insted of many.

Not a soul alive would accept 2,000 floppies to install Windows xp. It would take too long, and there is a greater risk for one of the disks to go bad.

"MS is SH!T, I just spent 6 hours installing and i can't get past disk 1,296!"

People would just laugh at you for being an idiot to buy such a thing.

Clearly exagerated, but you get the point. Less is better.

Ferd · Apr 9, 2004

Maybe because people still feel CDs are more reliable than DVDs... (actually and technologically, that´s not true)

Rodzilla · Apr 9, 2004

Look at it this way....you can pop the DVD in, start the install, and then go take that MASSIVE SH*T you've had to take all day....when you're done, it's all installed, and you don't have to pop another 5 disks in...

Thrash123 · Apr 10, 2004

Yeah, I know. I have a DVD drive on my 300mhz laptop for data stuff (obviously not for watching movies :))

, I would enjoy seeing more DVD data disks.

SanitysEdge · Apr 10, 2004

DVDs are teh futuar!
Wait for blueray discs, they can hold about 40 gigs a disc, if i recall corectly

Original9 · Apr 10, 2004

Your mom could hold 40 gigs a disc.

People are lazy. That and I have nothing better to do than to swap disc all day.

SkummyB|BuF · Apr 10, 2004

Rodzilla said:
Look at it this way....you can pop the DVD in, start the install, and then go take that MASSIVE SH*T you've had to take all day....when you're done, it's all installed, and you don't have to pop another 5 disks in...

couldn't have put it better myself :lol:

tomcat ha · Apr 10, 2004

allot of people dont have dvd drives yet

Rodzilla · Apr 10, 2004

tomcat ha said:
allot of people dont have dvd drives yet

Would somebody think of the CHILDREN!?!?

Really, why don't they? Nearly every new computer in the past 3 years has come with one, and it's not as if they cost more than $20 to pick one up...

Hadmar · Apr 10, 2004

The standard PCs we get at work still come with CD drives. *edit* No, not true, the last twelve PCs we got seem to be our new standard and come with DVD drives.

Sam_The_Man · Apr 10, 2004

Why don't I like having 5+ CDs? Because all games nowadays come in craptastic DVD packaging, with 2 or 3 of the CDs jammed onto a single spike, and any excess put in a white paper sachet that falls out at the slightest opportunity. At least, that was the case with Knights of the Old Republic.

If we still had proper packaging and proper CD cases it wouldn't matter, but as long as everything - manual, CDs, consumer survey and freepost envelope, etc. have to fit in a case built to take one disc and one case-sized booklet, then I'll just have one disc, thank you very much.

Duffnat · Apr 10, 2004

tomcat ha said:
allot of people dont have dvd drives yet

The only thing i would say about that is, If you have a computer that can play 2k4 and dont have a dvd drive. Your priorities were/are all jacked up.

Dain75 · Apr 10, 2004

Maybe not everyone has a DVD-ROM

Rodzilla · Apr 10, 2004

Not everyone had a CD-ROM when games began to be released on them when they would have taken up 5-6 floppy disks...

hal · Apr 10, 2004

The Dopefish said:
I don't understand why people don't mind swapping CDs during install. Remember five years ago when one CD was enough? Now people apparently don't mind needed 3-5 discs to install games.

Did I miss the concept of being lazy, and DVDs?

I mind so much as to pick up the DVD version off of the store shelf instead of the CD version. I don't mind so much as to create a forum thread about it.

Gamma_Sword · Apr 10, 2004

Having multiple CDs for a game doesn't bother me...

Except when you have to swap them regularily during in-game play. -_-;
(Mostly affects RPG games)

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