why dvd in europe but CD rom in the us?

[u5ndh]

I'm wondering who decided to release the game on 3 cd's in the us but 1 dvd in europe.

Will this have been Ion Storm or Eidos.

As far as i'm concerned it doens't make sense. Choose one or other or release both verwsion everywhere.

neil

[Majnun]

That kind of stuff is always the publisher's call, so EIDOS.

I guess they think not enough people in NA have DVD drives in their PCs. To be honest I just got one myself a month ago, and that was only because my CD-R/RW died on me.

Hopefully we'll start getting first release games on DVD over here sometime next year.

[u5ndh]

I know that feeling.

Until this afternoon i didn't have a dvd in my computer as i use the one with my tv and didn't see a point in having one in my computer before now. I only bought it today because i wanted to play thief3 and i couldn't otherwise.

neil

[ViperTCR]

Though living in Germany myself I can hardly belief why less people in the US should've DVD-ROMs in their PCs than Europeans.
But obviously market studies are leading to this conclusion.

It was the same Issue with Far Cry. Though I bought an UK-Version of this game it came on 3 CDs - but normally it should've on DVD throughout Europe.
The only thing why they published in in UK on CD, too, was imo that they couldn't fit the demand only with a DVD release.

ViperTCR


PS: I've seen German forums were people got bad comments on complaining about the "Far Cry only on DVD"-issue because they had a 3000+ (or equal) PC but no DVD-ROM in their PC. But imo your right - if you don't use your PC to watch DVDs there haven't been that many reason's for having a DVD-ROM in it.

[Mr. Perfect]

Becasue us Americans are forever cursed with CD shuffling by the powers that be. Aparently we need more drink coasters over here....

[Kaspre]

*sigh* Yeah, and I was telling people five years ago that they should get DVD-ROM drives in their new computers, because games would be DVD only "really soon."

Seemed like a slam-dunk to transition to a more efficient storage medium at very little cost, but for some reason things haven't yet taken off to the degree that I expected.

[Nemo85]

yeah dido. I had my comp custom built and a DVD added and that like 2 years ago! Has not gotten the use i thought it would...

[Guineapiggy]

Oh it gets worse. The new standard, a 30gb single-sided DVDrom has been announced, and by the looks, it takes a completely revised 'blue laser' laser head to read so if that ever becomes standard you'll need new drives. Either way, personally I feel it's this bull region encrypting that is damaging the DVD's prospects.

[Thatguy]

It seems CD-roms are being replaced by DVDs for games in europe as all new games are on DVD only here, a good thing (no more annoying cd swapping)

[Thatguy]

It seems CD-roms are being replaced by DVDs for games in europe as all new games are on DVD only here, a good thing (no more annoying cd swapping)

[shoppa]

I live in North America and dont know anyone who does not have a DVD-ROM or DVD/RW drive.

[Thinzad]

Just a thought, but is it possible that they expected TS to support multiple languages in the european version, so went with the DVD idea that already does that?

[Majnun]

There are numerous free programs that turn off/circumvent "region encrypting".

You can play any dvd from any region (an unlimited number of times). That is as long as you're playing them on your PC and run one of those programs.