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WoW: Wrath of the Lich King Only Shipping on DVD, Signals Death Knell of PC CD Games

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Chris Faylor of ShackNews writes:

"Blizzard has revealed that when Wrath of the Lich King launches on November 13, World of Warcraft (PC) subscribers will only be able to obtain the MMO's second expansion pack in DVD format. "
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Published: 449 days 13 hours ago | News | PC
 
 

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plain rice - 449 days 12 hours ago
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Who the hell wants a CD version anyway?
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kwicksandz - 449 days 4 hours ago
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1.1 - haha!
DVD is the future GG last gen cd players.Only with the power of DVD can WOLTK be released into an addicted public.
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TheIneffableBob - 449 days 11 hours ago
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Good.

Nobody wants to go through 10 CDs to install a game.
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pwnsause - 449 days 11 hours ago
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just goes to show you, sooner or later 3-4 years from now, the new standard for game installing via disc is going to be on BLu-ray, Heck just look, installs are taking on average 2 DVD 5's now, and its going to multiply soon.
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yamamoto114 - 449 days 10 hours ago
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Unless they come out with a faster format of similar size before then.
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Megatron08 - 449 days 2 hours ago
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"3-4 years from now, the new standard for game installing via disc is going to be on BLu-ray"

Yea cause after over 20 years they are just starting to make dvd standard so ya go SDF
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JustinSaneV2 - 449 days 2 hours ago
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If DVDs are just now becoming standard after all these years then Blu-Ray still has quite a ways to go before it's adopted.
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yamamoto114 - 449 days 10 hours ago
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What's a CD?
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LeonSKennedy4Life - 449 days 8 hours ago
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This is sort of disappointing.

Some WOW gamers still only have a CD drive. I personally only know one of them, but they are out there and I would consider this a poor decision on Blizzard's part.
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JustinSaneV2 - 449 days 1 hour ago
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There's a point in every machine's life where it's just time to move on.
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Dark_Overlord - 449 days 8 hours ago
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6 - I don't think its the death of PC CD games
theres a lot of smaller developers who still release games on CD's (The Adventure Company publishes quite a few CD based games).

Cd's have been in decline with developers making bigger and more complex games that require a lot more storage space, but that is not always the case as shown by the smaller devs.

CD based games will probably be rarer to find in future but I doubt they'll stop existing completely
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Snoozer282 - 449 days 7 hours ago
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Just buy a DVD drive, they're like £10.
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cjg23 - 449 days ago
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Are you kidding me? There is no excuse to not having a dvd drive in your pc especially when you are paying 15 bucks a month to play WoW and its 2008. You can get a brand new dvd drive for 20 bucks now.
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