Will the PC version come on a blu ray disc?

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Will the PC version come on a blu ray disc?

Postby BlueCreeperBoy12 » Thu Jan 18, 2018 8:04 am

I've decided I'm going to get the pc version. But I want to be able to hold the game in my hands, and know I own Shenmue 3 at last. I don't want it to just be on a dvd that initiated a download.

How do you think they'll do the pc version?
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Re: Will the PC version come on a blu ray disc?

Postby Yokosuka » Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:27 am

As far as I know, PC games never release on BR discs.

Biscay promised that all the game will be in the box. But that's only his word.
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Re: Will the PC version come on a blu ray disc?

Postby BlueCreeperBoy12 » Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:47 am

Yokosuka wrote: As far as I know, PC games never release on BR discs.

Biscay promised that all the game will be in the box. But that's only his word.

Where did he say that?
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Re: Will the PC version come on a blu ray disc?

Postby Yokosuka » Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:57 am

Twitter. Quite some time ago.
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Re: Will the PC version come on a blu ray disc?

Postby gillian_seed » Thu Jan 18, 2018 2:06 pm

It is really uncommon to see PC games on Blu Ray, and since the game won't fit in a single DVD, I'd bet for a digital code in a box or a disc containing a tiny .EXE file. It has happened before in games like physical version of MGSV: Phantom Pain. That keeps me away from physical copies of PC games.
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Re: Will the PC version come on a blu ray disc?

Postby BlueCreeperBoy12 » Thu Jan 18, 2018 4:07 pm

gillian_seed wrote: It is really uncommon to see PC games on Blu Ray, and since the game won't fit in a single DVD, I'd bet for a digital code in a box or a disc containing a tiny .EXE file. It has happened before in games like physical version of MGSV: Phantom Pain. That keeps me away from physical copies of PC games.

They should put the entire game on 5 dual layer DVDs. A dual layer DVD can hold about 8GB of data. I think the Witcher 3 came on 5 discs on pc. I liked that idea because actually holding the game you've bought can be a special thing for some people.
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Re: Will the PC version come on a blu ray disc?

Postby *Kenshin Himura* » Thu Jan 18, 2018 8:16 pm

I smell a returning troll..
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Re: Will the PC version come on a blu ray disc?

Postby BlueCreeperBoy12 » Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:00 pm

*Kenshin Himura* wrote: I smell a returning troll..

I need to think very carefully about my words, because saying "how am I a troll?" Will just make me look like Shenmue_Legend.

What specifically in this post makes me look like a troll.

Edit: if it's the cringy 2014 icon, or the Minecraft username, I can understand. I made this account in 2015. When I still found MLG stuff funny, and used that username for everything. I can prove it if needed.
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Re: Will the PC version come on a blu ray disc?

Postby Sappharad » Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:23 pm

gillian_seed wrote: It is really uncommon to see PC games on Blu Ray, and since the game won't fit in a single DVD, I'd bet for a digital code in a box or a disc containing a tiny .EXE file. It has happened before in games like physical version of MGSV: Phantom Pain. That keeps me away from physical copies of PC games.

Sorry to say it, but this is probably what will happen. The majority of the PC market is laptops now and most PC's don't even include optical drives anymore, even desktops. The 1 year old ThinkPad that I use at work (which is the most popular laptop for businesses, who are usually reliant on old technology for longer than normal consumers would be) doesn't have an optical drive because they got rid of them.

If someone has an optical drive in their machine, it's most likely to be a DVD drive. Instead of vendors switching from DVD to Blu Ray they basically dropped drives altogether. I only have one computer that still has an optical drive, and it's 8 years old. For everything else, I use an external USB Blu-Ray burner.

What I would expect is exactly what other games are doing, the "physical PC version" just being an installer that downloads files from the internet. If you're lucky they might actually do a multi-DVD distribution, but they're going to be using Steam anyway so probably not. I guess one other option is that some software is coming on USB drives now, (the last time I bought a boxed copy of VMWare it came with both a DVD and a USB stick) but I think that's much more expensive than producing DVD's so it's unlikely.


I suggest having low expectations, because if they actually put the full game onto disc for PC it will be very impressive.
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Re: Will the PC version come on a blu ray disc?

Postby SledgeNE » Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:44 am

I think it will be like Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain. A Blu-ray Disc for PC would make no sense. Too expensive for the most publishers.
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Re: Will the PC version come on a blu ray disc?

Postby shredingskin » Fri Jan 19, 2018 8:52 pm

I'm now using a laptop for gaming, so dvds/br will not work for me.

The most amazing way would probably be a styliized usb with the game, but that's hardly happening.

Probably it's going to a downloadeable code.
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Re: Will the PC version come on a blu ray disc?

Postby abaww » Tue Jan 23, 2018 5:24 pm

It will likely be a "fake physical" edition, with the download code inside the box, like many of the recent PC releases. It won't be on bluray for sure.
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Re: Will the PC version come on a blu ray disc?

Postby BlueCreeperBoy12 » Tue Jan 23, 2018 6:14 pm

I am praying that they put it on multiple DVDs.
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Re: Will the PC version come on a blu ray disc?

Postby swimingdeer » Tue Jan 23, 2018 8:08 pm

Well, personally, I want to buy the physical PC version for the idea of :
"I got the whole game on discs as it was for Shenmue 1 and 2"



There was already games that needed to be installed using several CDs when CDs could hold limited data.
So, I don't care if I need to launch and install from several DVDs if it's needed.

In all fairness, the game core could be on a DVD with the first area(s) (Guilin, maybe more).
Then, other discs/DVDs could hold the data for the others.
(it may be that only the biggest area is on another disc dedicated to it.)

Then again, if they manage to compress the data with methodologies akin to the ones used in SH1+2,
the whole game can be lighter than we expect.

(I think we never had confirmation if they could develop a new "magic maze" system or not.)


Also, several DVDs could be used if they provide with both voice tracks (english/japanese) :
Want to play with Japanese tracks only ? : Install only the Japanese tracks DVD.
Want to play with both ? : Install both.


Having the full game on a single DVD would be nice.
However, if they need several, it could be a good opportunity to split the contents in a clever way.
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Re: Will the PC version come on a blu ray disc?

Postby Niowiad » Thu Jan 25, 2018 7:35 am

abaww wrote: It will likely be a "fake physical" edition, with the download code inside the box, like many of the recent PC releases. It won't be on bluray for sure.

Funny enough, I funded the kickstarted with the "PC physical copy" and never actually thought about this, but what I just quoted sounds like the most likely scenario to me as well at the moment.

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