Quote Originally Posted by 'heyaz',index.php?page=Thread&postID=145727#post14 5727
Quote Originally Posted by 'Oswyn',index.php?page=Thread&postID=145175#post14 5175
Imagine 5 million people trying to download 15GB at the same time...
And manufacturing and shipping 5 million copies to retailers was a much easier feat....
Manufacturing that many cds these days is not that much work - with the automated systems they have now, especially overseas, it's not that big a deal - making 5 million of them, you're probably looking at a dollar or less per box, including cd/dvd, all printed materials, and the custom imprinting for the cd-keys. I've worked on projects like that, not 5 million, but I've worked with the big boys in CD duping and box manufacturing, it's really not that big a deal.

Bandwidth for 15g, spread out over several million people? $$$$! Which is why they use Bittorrent, if they had to host servers with direct download, they'd be broke.

Me, I'll probably buy 5 copies online, get the keys, and download one installer, install one copy, set it up with all the addons and stuff - then make 4 symbolic links to it. I did that for BC.