Disc Retail for Low Bandwidth Customers?

[Bullethead]

I live way out in the sticks and have only a 23.6k dial-up connection, which ain't too reliable. IOW, if I have to download DG, odds are it would take a day or 2, and I'd probably lose the connection in the process and have to start over several times, making the project probably take a week of excessive frustration.

The other option for me is to drive 50-60 miles to a city where I can find some WiFi. Problem is, the drive's expensive these days in my stereotypical redneck pickup, so to get my money's worth, I'd have to make it my major supply run for the month, meaning my laptop would be shut up in the truck most of the day. This is a bad thing, because we're talking about Baton Rouge, which is now crawling with New Orleans ex-pat thugs who've doubled the already-high crime rate there since Katrina.

So couldja, wouldja please please please make DG available on CD? Otherwise I'm kinda up a creek.

[Rhetor]

Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't someone send you the downloaded installer file on CD/DVD via standard mail? If you can "try before you buy", that means that you pay only for the registration, not for downloading the file.

I could do it, but it would take at least three weeks for it to get from Poland to the US, if the US mail does not lose it.

[Aries]

This is a good example of why it is good to know people you both respect and trust that can expidite favours.

You have a friend download it, burn it to disk, mail it to ya presto done.

"But they would be able to make a free copy, and that's wrong".

Yeah valid argument. I counter with you "picking someone you respect and trust".

I of course will grant you, that you just might not know anyone worth that much respect and trust. But that is something I can't help you with.

Long story short, it can be done eh.
I know of plenty of people, that have zero interest in wargames, zero interest in scamming a free copy of a wargame, and would routinely be capable of being asked to do such a favour.

That this method is an option, should not be discounted.

Question though, where do you work? And are you actually routinely that far away from ANYbody with broadband?
Seems odd in this day and age.

[Lempereur1]

Bullethead:

We have taken your situation into our deliberations well over a year ago and you will be pleased to know that we plan to have a Customer Service CD available that you will be able to purchase for a nominal fee. It will contain the same Demo versions of our games that you would download.

These can be played in Demo mode for the pre-specified time and then converted to the full version in an instant with the slowest of modems!

Details later...

[NormKoger]

You have a friend download it, burn it to disk, mail it to ya presto done.
"But they would be able to make a free copy, and that's wrong".


Not a problem. The downloadable will function in demo mode for anyone. The more the merrier. Individual users register for full access, and that could be done at 300 baud. If you don't remember watching text marching across the screen with 300 baud connections, you're younger than me...

[Bullethead]

Thanks, gentlemen. Us broadband-challenged rednecks certainly appreciate it.

If you don't remember watching text marching across the screen with 300 baud connections, you're younger than me...

I remember playing MegaWars online on Compuserve at 300 baud. Remember those startrek games back then that used ASCII characters for the scanner map? That's what MegaWars was, only "massively" multiplayer in that about 6 people could play at once, fighting each other. That was an adventure because you had to do the scan command, wait for it to get to the host, then wait for the map to print out very slowly on your end so you could see where the other guys were (their ships being letters in a line of dots and astericks), then send a command to shoot at the other guy's coordinates, and by then he'd probably moved. Compuserve charged by the hour, as did MegaWars, so it got VERY expensive. My ol' lady had a fit at this $200/month habit, so that was the end of it.