What are these 'discs' you speak of?
Who buys pc games on discs anymore?
( pobblepop time flies like an arrow fruit flies like a banana, Tue 13 Nov 2012, 14:57, Reply)

Chavs

( Fadgebadger /links's pedantic bellend, Tue 13 Nov 2012, 14:58, Reply)

When Borderlands 2 is half price in GAME
It's people like me (comes with a Steam key anyway)
( lazygamer tittybiscuits, Tue 13 Nov 2012, 15:03, Reply)

It always seems to take about a month to download from steam anyway.
Disks will occasionally get installed within my lifetime.
(tacpprm has a mmrpcat, Tue 13 Nov 2012, 15:11, Reply)

and
doubly annoying is half the time if you pick up a bargain at dixons or game, stream still insists on trying to download it.

Or in the case of BF3 (not steam I know) we had a disk which installed 9GB. Then over next 2 months we had 11Gig of 'patches'
( zacherynuk Floccinaucinihilipilification, Tue 13 Nov 2012, 15:47, Reply)

Sounds like GT5 on the PS3
That thing has downloaded so many HUGE patches I've almost given up playing it for fear it'll need to download another 2 Gig on launch.
( evil_andy : devilish rogue, Tue 13 Nov 2012, 16:01, Reply)

it can be irritating if you just want a quick game before going to work, then it tells you that there's updates to be installed.
i think at the moment BF3's taking up just under 23GB on my hard drive then it'll go up again in a couple of weeks for the Aftermath content.
do you play it on PC?
( Cockweasle, Tue 13 Nov 2012, 16:13, Reply)

Ha ha ha ha
Team Fortress 2 currently sitting in a 17 gig pile of it's own making on my hard drive. Fuck knows how much space BF3 is hogging on my PC.

I can't stand Origin, it's like a mirror universe Steam.
( Smallbrainfield, Tue 13 Nov 2012, 16:38, Reply)

origin is hideous.
it's like the equivalent of those fake chinese wiis but for game management systems.
for ages I was getting huge slowdown and sluggish movements for no apparent reason. It all stopped when I started closing down firefox and origin when I log into a server. sometimes origin would magically go into "offline" mode mid game creating 1/2 GB of unusable RAM , meanwhile firefox is eating up over 400MB as well and neither are necessary whilst BF3 is running
( Cockweasle, Tue 13 Nov 2012, 17:04, Reply)

GAME dug themselves out of that nasty hole they were in then?

( taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Tue 13 Nov 2012, 15:27, Reply)

the one here's shut down

( Cockweasle, Tue 13 Nov 2012, 16:04, Reply)

My town had a Game and a Gamestation.
The Game shut down and the Gamestation remained open, but has since been renamed/rebranded as a Game. The staff in their go on about how pissed off they are about working for Game now, because Gamestation was always the 'cooler' company to work for.

I pointed out that at least they still had a fucking job, unlike those at the 'old' Game around the corner. They did a collective 'oh yeah', before talking about the old black gamestation membership cards being better than the crappy purple and silver game ones.

Arseholes one and all.
(Fart through a Walkie Talkie is seriously considering keeping this user name, Tue 13 Nov 2012, 16:24, Reply)

I was an Assistant Manager at Gamestation
I left just after the Game buy out. Knew exactly what was going to happen. My local Gamestation(re-brand aside) is still there, and I know exactly where you're coming from.
( Fadgebadger /links's pedantic bellend, Tue 13 Nov 2012, 16:28, Reply)