digitally downloading or buying it from the store? - Page 4

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This is how i`ll forsee my night getting it...



10 years of waiting and you`d rather have the game downloaded?

I for one, would rather have it in person, in my hands, driving 100 mph to my house, smashing through the garage door, running up stairs, tripping over my own feet but all the while keep the box above my head so there is no damage, then...and then....



I take it out of the bag. I stare at it. And think to myself...here it is. 10 years. right here. ill have tons of food/soda/juice/water stored up in a frig near by, that way I would not have to leave my room.



I`ll carefully open the box, piece by piece till all the contents are laid out in a straight line in front of me...and examine then and scream like a little school girl..

I`ll find the cd it self, plot it in, and then wait for it to download. when it says installation complete, all the lights shut off, time to play in utter darkness and say good bye to the world for quiet a few days...

ALL THE WHILE ILL BE RECORDING MYSELF UNBOXING THE GREAT GAME AS DIABLO.




LOLz. Here's hoping it's released either during winter break, spring break, or in the summer, because I will be doing the same thing, 'cept for the whole recording the unboxing, I don't think anyone wants to see me "scream like a little school girl". =)

|||When i ordered the Cataclysm for World of Warcraft i got it after actual release, by the time i could've gotten the game i was already at the new level cap.

I'm gonna wait for the box for Diablo 3 though as i'll be busy at this point in time.|||I'll try to get my hand on a CE if possible. If not then I'll still get a box so I could add it to my collection here.|||Oh, I forgot to mention I will downloading it. Hopefully the servers can handle the MASSIVE influx of traffic.

Are the digital downloads P2P?|||You know, if you buy it in a retail store you can play it for free. Just buy it, take it home, add it to your battle.net account. Return it to the store and say "Oh hey I didn't know I could only play this game online."

I'm not saying you should, just saying it's possible.|||If possible, download digitally. In my country, you can usually buy only localized versions of games which could have few features depending on how the game deals with localization. (Like patches are late or non-existing at all, strange translations, missing texts, no chance to change the language back, even not being able to connect to some servers etc. + well, the skills, items and everything has different names and I have hard time to match the right skill I read about at english forum with the one from localized version).

+I will be able to contribute to server crash few minutes after they will be opened.|||Quote:








You know, if you buy it in a retail store you can play it for free. Just buy it, take it home, add it to your battle.net account. Return it to the store and say "Oh hey I didn't know I could only play this game online."

I'm not saying you should, just saying it's possible.




Many retail stores have strict policies not allowing returns on opened software.|||Quote:








Are the digital downloads P2P?




Yes, the installer and patcher applications use BitTorrent beside the standard HTTP protocol.


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You know, if you buy it in a retail store you can play it for free. Just buy it, take it home, add it to your battle.net account. Return it to the store and say "Oh hey I didn't know I could only play this game online."

I'm not saying you should, just saying it's possible.




I bet the store clerks would check if you registered the product key already or not.|||Quote:








i bet the store clerks would check if you registered the CD key already or not.




Maybe, but how though? Does Blizzard have a service for this?|||Quote:








Maybe, but how though? Does Blizzard have a service for this?




Ask them. What StarEater said is also true though. For example in Hungary you can't ask for refunds on products you already opened.