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Everquest 2 to be on 10 CD's?
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OMG I will die!!! I read from PC Gamer (us) that they are also considering a two disk DVD option.. I REALLY hope they go for that.
I thought FF XI was bad with what 5 or 6 disks...errrr but 10 omg.
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The more the disks the more the.... Content? Looks like this game is going to be huge or something. Anyways, i don't care if it's 20 disks as long as they keep the price decent.
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10 cd's hahah. the box must be huge for the game. Wouldnt it be a problem though if it was dvd? because dont u need a dvd drive to read it? or can cd drives read it too? I really dont wanna go out and buy a DVD drive.
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Well...
Sony can be accused of many things, but I am pretty certain that if you only install a shorter version with the original CD keys and all the info to prove you buy the game, you will be able to download the whole game without even needing to clicking it or even realizing it, user friendly!
Hey, they always make sure the game can install itself alone after I click Yes, d:blablabla and can play without doing much more! Installing the whole game will be much better and faster then downloading everything althought! Especially that there would prolly have be 20 patchs since the CDs where released and they will auto-patch before you can play...I really doubt the game will be on more then 5 CDs, you will just have a long time to download if you install the CDs...
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2 dvd's or 10 cd's i dont really care long as the game is out
. only have to do it once and cd's download easy, if it was from the web site then would take forever.
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i'd be surprised if they just released a 10 CD and not a DVD edition as well to be honest, look at UT, 6 CD's or a single DVD i'm sure a majority of PC users have DVD drives now anyway, wasn't FarCry a DVD only release and that sold pretty well afaik.
But given the option I aint swapping 10's, much rather just throw a DVD or two in there
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10 CDs doesn't always mean more content.
1) They say the game has "cinematic" quality. This means that there are more polygons for the Characters, Monsters, Buildings and EVERYTHING! The higher the detail and the polygon count , the more data to store. They also use very high-resolution textures , meaning that they also take up more space.
2)The Number of CDs also depends on the way they store the game data.That's one of the reasons Blizzard changed WoW's file structure and the way they store tha data - So they can increase productivity and decrease hard-drive space needed.
3) If the music and sound is also in a high-quality non-lossy format , this means that it also takes up more space.
But it could really also mean more content. I guess soon we'll know
I can tell you where the CDs come into play..."over 130 hours of digitized speech". Think about that. The average album on MP3 is about 60-80MB for about 50 minutes of audio. So that is 7800 minutes of audio at about 1.4MB per minute. My math says that alone is 10GB. Now granted, they will likely use a lower sampling rate and compress it to all hell on the install CDs, but this would still lead to about 3-4GB (or 6 CDs) worth of data.
My guess is when it comes time to offer free downloadable trial versions (like all MMO's eventually do) they will come "voiceless" unless you order the CDs.
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Im guessing they will be using ATRAC compression which offers AWSOME compression to quality ratio. Its currently in use in all the Sony MD players, so I don't see why SOE wouldn't use thier own technology.
http://www.sony.net/Products/ATRAC3/overview/index.html
Yea i read that in PCGamer also about a week ago...
they said that they "would consider a dvd option"
basically there will be a dvd option...and even if there isn't, hey, I would install 500000 cd's if it would let me play EQII
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How on earth can they use up 10 CD's! How many different kinds of orcs can you put into a game! hehehe.
Seriously though, I don't see how this game can be 10 CD's. Especially if they shard their servers then it's too big and you'll go for weeks without seeing anyone.
No, of course not. I don't know nothing about 3D Animation, Bounding Boxes, Physics engines, Server clusters, C++ code or anything.
Let me rephrase my point:
"How on earth can they use up 10 CD's! How many different kinds of orcs can you put into a game! hehehe." - What I'm saying in this portion of the paragraph is that there are plenty of games that don't use up 10 CD's and have very immersive worlds. 10GB is A LOT of information and if the client is that big then the actual EQ2 world must be 2 - 3 times bigger then say Camelot with all of it's expansions. Generally what's stored on the client machine is maps, textures, and a portion of the engine that interacts with the server side protion. The engine itself probably takes up 10% of that space (I think I'm being very liberal at that, however I've never coded an MMORPG. However I have done various other programming and generally the main program takes up very little.) The other 90% of the space is taken up by resource files (Maps, textures, etc...) so therefore it can be inferred that if Dark Age of Camelot uses 5 CD's for all of it's expansions (Classic DaoC, Shrouded Isles, and Trials of Atlantis.) Then it can be safe to say that the EQ2 world will be twice the size of the DaoC + Expansions world.
Personally I think that's way to much space and I'm curious as to how they're going to fill it all. Also how will players interact with each other if there's so much space between them? I just hope they have good content to fill that space with, or they have subscribers that don't really feel content isn't important. Then again It's a foolproof game reguardless because with all the hype EQ2's recieved there's no way anyone could be dissapointed with it because...... "It's EQ!" So maybe all these words just illistrate a moot point. In which case, sorry to have wasted your time.
P.S: I just didn't feel like typing all this for my first reply but from now on I'll go on ahead and type multi paragraph posts so I don't get told what I do and don't know.
it's...scary. very, very, very, scary...the world we live in...that's why i love the virtual world.
"I mean oh well if it is, it is...they made EQ II the way they made it and it requires 10 cds. I highly doubt no one is going to buy it because of that. "
Thing is when it was on floppies games seemed like they had a lot more content. Then again probably just because content was all those old games had to go off of.
Now with graphics and 3D rendering and such, content gets clouded and spaced out more. I hope that EQ II Dosn't space out it's content with barren landscape for the sake of the world being bigger. SWG has done that and it's kind of dissapointing when there's a half hour of barren landscape between cities and content.
I'd never forsake a game because of memory space. I just hope they do the right things with that memory space
I really couldnt care how big EQ2 turns out to be, its still on my "To Buy" list. Though... im glad i bought that DVD drive awhile ago^^ saves me alot of disc swapping! Those people who dont have DVD drives SHOULD get them. Hell, they are only like $30 for the best ones, thats not much money. They will also be used more often for future games, they read CD's too, its not like you'll be abandoning CDs if you get one.
if you go to ebworld.com they have preorders for EQ2 out one is for EQ2 and one is for EQ2 DVD, both same price.