Steam and Origin can **** my balls

Rant time! So the other day I purchased Mass Effect 3 and Shogun 2 for PC. I got the physical copies for both coz I like having a box collection in my room plus my internet isn't so speedy and it would take forever to download off origin and steam. So why the flip is it the case, that even though I have the DVD's bursting with install data, that both services INSIST on me having to download the entire files??? A quick google search shows that there are ways around it, but why isn't there simply an option to INSTALL FROM DISC, seeing as I...you know...HAVE THE FREAKING DISC??? Okay rant over...

Main reason I don't even bother buying boxed copies of games anymore. Less chance of discounts, take up too much room if you have a collection, and the only thing you need from it is a 25-character key.

You are installing them from your discs, but both games HAVE FREAKING HUGE PATCHES THAT YOU NEED TO DOWNLOAD.

If you are indeed downloading the games from the internet and not just those huge patches, there's no point trying to stop automatic updates or to avoid them, since you can't even install them from their discs.

Ways around not installing from the internet, are you serious? these games don't install through magic, you put the discs in, autorun starts, then you install, like any other game, a monkey, literally, can do it.

yea it stupid.. same for gw2.. have the disks but dl from the net.

Just wondering what happens if you disconnect the net then try to install from the disk?

yea it stupid.. same for gw2.. have the disks but dl from the net.

Just wondering what happens if you disconnect the net then try to install from the disk?

undeadgoon

No one is having an issue installing from a disc...the problem is that origin/steam literally do not allow you to use the install data from the discs, so you have to install the full game on top of patches/updates, so the point I was making was why do they bother making physical copies?

p.s judging from your douchey responses here is a video I recommend you watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGt9jAkWie4

I bought Dishonored a few days ago. I opened it up...put it in the DVD drive...and by god it installed from the disc. O_O

Not all games. Mass Effect 3 made the news for the disc data not installing.

yea it stupid.. same for gw2.. have the disks but dl from the net.

Just wondering what happens if you disconnect the net then try to install from the disk?

undeadgoon

seriously dude chill out...it's just a forum post, regardless of whether you think it is stupid you can still voice your opinion without being rude or condescending.

seriously dude chill out...it's just a forum post, regardless of whether you think it is stupid you can still voice your opinion without being rude or condescending.

elegance89

But where's the fun in that

seriously dude chill out...it's just a forum post, regardless of whether you think it is stupid you can still voice your opinion without being rude or condescending.

elegance89

seriously dude chill out...

elegance89

To be 14 years old again.

Shogun2 has been supported with gb's and gb's of patches/updates, this is a good thing.

Yeah, it kind of defeats the purpose of physical media if you're not going to use it.

Oh look, it's another guy stuck in the 90's. Move along people

You are installing them from your discs, but both games HAVE FREAKING HUGE PATCHES THAT YOU NEED TO DOWNLOAD.

DanielDust

Yeah you're not alone. I too enjoy asterisks on my balls.

Smh. People are confusing base-game installation from dvds, and updates. Of course, Steam or Origin will download mb's and GB's of updates/patches if you just got the game now... Common sense.Elann2008

^ this. They install from the disc, you're just late to the party and the boxed copy doesnt have the oodles of free content that came out since then. Logic > ranting

TC mad cuz bad

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yea it stupid.. same for gw2.. have the disks but dl from the net.

Just wondering what happens if you disconnect the net then try to install from the disk?

DanielDust

Hmmm weird... i wasnt complaining.. some people only see what they want to see.. in fact i was trying to offer a solution... but thanks for your input.

Not all games. Mass Effect 3 made the news for the disc data not installing. [QUOTE="undeadgoon"]

yea it stupid.. same for gw2.. have the disks but dl from the net.

Just wondering what happens if you disconnect the net then try to install from the disk?

Elann2008

I have seem multiple posts saying different.. altho maybe GW2 was a bad example as its an online game anyway..

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Not all games. Mass Effect 3 made the news for the disc data not installing. [QUOTE="undeadgoon"]

yea it stupid.. same for gw2.. have the disks but dl from the net.

Just wondering what happens if you disconnect the net then try to install from the disk?

undeadgoon

I have seem multiple posts saying different.. altho maybe GW2 was a bad example as its an online game anyway..

Grats... i hope he enjoys it... im having loads of fun.

I always thought in todays PC games that the Discs were just a ploy and what was actually on the disc was just a shortcut to Steam/Origin/GFWL/whatever.

All you're doing is paying for the key.

threads like this gave me a drinking problem last year.. they continue to make me binge drink

TC is rtarded

Yeah you're not alone. I too enjoy asterisks on my balls.

-Unreal-

They do install from the disks.

At least BF3 and Skyrim did for me (the only games i bought retail at all recently).

It's just modern games have patches and updates.