A few weeks ago there was a big drama over id Software’s upcoming FPS
Rage being split up on
two disks for the Xbox 360. One would suppose that the game is fairly large, but only in a 12-inch turkey sub sense (as opposed to the meatball one, which is wicked hefty).
Shacknews (via
1UP) is reporting that despite
Rage’s girth, it may still be digitally distributed.
The news stems from a response by id’s creative director Tim Willits, who told 1UP that “We haven’t figured out what we want to do yet. But I do want to fix the fact that John [Carmack] said [digital distribution is] not going to happen. What I’m saying is that’s not true.” Willits then went on to explain that Carmack made the comment about the size before the development team was even ready to speculate on the actual size of the game.
So
Rage, in all its scary monster glory, could still be hitting Steam once the development team figures out how big their eventual product will be. For the sake of argument, let’s say that Rage ends up around 25 GB. Would you download it or buy the full version?
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5:50 PM on 10.01.2008
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Well, it is going to be published by EA, and we haven't heard about DRM yet, so I don't know how long that will hold for...
If it's that big, I'll just buy the disc. Or in this game's case, I won't get either.
Argh, I misread the quote, I have shamed myself.
Until one of the 'rippers' gets their hands on it... their compression techniques can make games less than half the standard size. It takes a lot longer to install, of course. But still, for something like this, it would make sense for Rage themselves to do it.