• Blaster M
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        283 months ago

        Except it would take 3 literal months to download it (stupid home internet with a 1.25TB data cap)

        • @[email protected]
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          103 months ago

          Goodness, do you live in Australia or something? Are there any better options, or can you not afford them? My spoiled and priveleged self has trouble comprehending a data cap on my internet plan.

          • Blaster M
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            United States. They have data caps because their backbone isn’t powerful enough for 2gbps home internet they prefer to offer more value to customers

            • @ArtVandelay
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              73 months ago

              You forgot “and they’re greedy fuck pigs”

              • Blaster M
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                33 months ago

                well, that’s a given

            • @whats_all_this_then
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              13 months ago

              Do they also pull the “fair use” bullshit out their asses like our ISPs?

        • @[email protected]
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          63 months ago

          And if you go to the store and buy it in person, it’ll be a empty cd case with a serial key to download.

          • @[email protected]
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            63 months ago

            or with a CD that installs a downloader, that is actually a background service always starting with the OS, and a few other bloatware to not waste CD space

            except that almost nobody has a CD drive anymore. so it must be a pendrive instead that was forced to read-only access

        • @whats_all_this_then
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          Can I ask what country so I can avoid it like the plague?
          Ah yes, good ol’ US of A. Why am I not surprised?

          My ISP recently introduced data caps on unlimited (they throttle you to 4Mbit if you go past ~300GB or 500, not sure). I already wanted to leave but that’s really lighting a fire under me to move the fuck out of here.

          • @[email protected]
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            ? I’ve never had a data cap and I’m in the US. Many areas now have alternatives to cable/DSL. I have fiber-backed Ethernet at the wall, and my city is rolling out muni-fiber, and we’re honestly kind of late to the game compared to my local area.

            Shop around, maybe you have more options now.

        • @[email protected]
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          13 months ago

          Ah shit. That would suck. Personally I could start the download and have the game the next day. Which is roughly what it took to torrent a 4 GiB game back in the day if there weren’t enough seeds.

      • @[email protected]
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        13 months ago

        250GB tops or it will be bs.
        GTA5 already had about 90-110GB of raw gamedata. I think right now it’s 150GB.