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kain_kusanagi on 31 March 2013
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KingMessi said:
kain_kusanagi said:
fauzman said:
kain_kusanagi said:
fauzman said:
Sad to see a ps3 didnt wok out for you. I do have to say that a 10 hour download of a 12 GB game sounds very strange. The only time I have noticed my download slowing down is when I am playing games.


You're lucky. I pay for the fasted internet speed available in my area and a 12gb download would probably 3-4 days of constant download time. I do not look forward to a digital only future. UPS is faster than my internet.

That is terrible. It took me 3 or 4 hours to download R&C: all 4 one which is about 16GB. Is your xbox just as slow?

It's not the PS3 or Xbox 360. It's my internet speed. Anything I hook up to my DSL is the same speed. I just have slow DSL and no option other than dialup. Which isn't really an option. I guess I could get sat internet, but that costs more.

Where do you live?
Such slow internet still exists?Europe pretty much has 100MB/s down for cheap everywhere...
Isn't there really an option to get a better standard?Maybe finding enough people that are in the same boat as you to start a petition or so?
If your place is so far behind in those things and Media is doing a lot more with Digital Content it will be a pretty interesting future for places like yours.

I live just outside of a mid sized rural town in Eastern Oregon. It's a 3 hour drive to the nearest metro area. I love the country, but the internet speeds stinks. Luckly it doesn't seem to harm online play and I can watch streaming video on low quality or download it to watch later. I'm used to it and don't think about it much. But when I do download a game I remember how slow it is. I don't even want to know how long it would take to download a game like MGS4. I know I could get it in a factions of the time if I ordered it from Amazon and had UPS delivery it to me.

Anyway, European countires are very small compared to the USA. Each of our 50 states are still huge compared to most european nations. This poses a problem when communication lines have to be physicly layed across huge spans of countryside. American's population is spread far and thin. Metro areas have great broadband internet, but small towns and rural areas have slow internet access. To lay optic lines for everyone in the USA would at least a generation and more money than I can imagine. Half of the US population does not live in metro areas so the digital distribution and streaming future that you are looking forward to is a long ways off for America. That means the US won't be going digital or streaming only anytime soon. No company is going to hack off half their customer base just to go digital. But no communications company wants to invest in laying the lines either. The government might help, but we have enough dept and can't pay for everything the idiots in congress want to pay for already.