With a little luck the mail delivers my second christmas gift today.
And I just read that the company knowingly burnt an incomplete version onto the CD and that the files needing to complete it are up at Steam later today, and that people who bought the DVD to avoid long downloads now need to download 1.5 GB in speech and video data.
Bastards. This was not called a Beta, this is not an early access release. They seem to think they even demand praise for working until today - as they claim- to complete the game. I read this differently. They burnt and published a DVD weeks before they knew the code was ready to do so. Fairness and honest business principles would have demanded them to wait another two weeks, complete the code, and the do the DVDs.
Sop when I install, first it is 1-2 hours of downloading. Every time when I reinstall the game. Later patches not counted.
Great!
The DVD version is slightly more expensive. People buy that to avoid having a GB-heavy download to do. I must say I feel betrayed.
The game also comes as a pure download version via Steam as well. Needless to say that such customers need to download it in full. The price is a little bit lower.