You know what grinds my gears? (1 Viewer)

[Eminence]

I rent a copy of Call of Duty Black Ops 3 because I feel like shooting up some bad guys before I have to go to work.

I pop the disc in and I'm prompted to download a 10.791 GB patch with an estimated 8 hour download time.

Are you serious, bro? I'm not a 13 year old kid with hours to waste downloading a file. Sheesh, video games are weak nowadays.

 

[sho nuff]

That pissed my son off when he bought Destiny

 

[AnonymousBob]

People's knees. 

 

[[scooter]]

Wait, you have a job?

 

[MrPoo]

You'd think somebody that gets no real life ##### would have faster internet.

 

[Eminence]

You'd think somebody that gets no real life ##### would have faster internet.

GET THIS GUY OUT OF HERE!

 

[eoMMan]

Sorry, bud, but a 10 gig file should only take 10 or 15 minutes if you have fast interwebs.

 

[TheAristocrat]

Mom, can we get faster Internets?

 

[Eminence]

Sorry, bud, but a 10 gig file should only take 10 or 15 minutes if you have fast interwebs.

For real?

 

[Long Ball Larry]

People in the 19th century. Why don't they get with the freakin program? It's called an automobile, folks. It's much faster than a horse! 

 

[Eminence]

It's super windy here today, maybe that's part of the problem?

 

[Soulfly3]

I thought this was an automotive help question. 

Was gonna tell you it's the transmission

 

[Capella]

You got mail

 

[NorvilleBarnes]

Don't pick up the phone I'M DOWNLOADING!

 

[Ilov80s]

That is annoying though. I rarely lay video games anymore and all the updates are real annoying. 

 

[sho nuff]

That is annoying though. I rarely lay video games anymore and all the updates are real annoying. 

I'm more annoyed that you purchase a game, and then have to purchase or be on Xbox live or whatever in order to download more to actually play a game.

I get that its nice to have updates and improvements for some things...just sucked explaining that to a kid when he came home with a game and then couldn't play until we then got him on live and downloaded things. (In addition to needing a bigger HDD to download stuff for Destiny).

 

[AnonymousBob]

a/s/l?

 

[Osaurus]

What's your baud rate?

 

[Slapdash]

Games take way too long to install these days

 

[Leroy Hoard]

People in the 19th century. Why don't they get with the freakin program? It's called an automobile, folks. It's much faster than a horse! 

I can't help but laugh when I see them churning butter.

 

[ShamrockPride]

OP would have lost his s### with the 2gb Day 1 patch The Division had.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

It's super windy here today, maybe that's part of the problem?

Absolutely

 

[jon_mx]

Interesting.  How many floppy disks did it take to load in the first place?  

 

[matuski]

Somehow I knew the answer wasn't going to be a woman.

 

[The Kerminator]

Should have stayed with Atari Pong

 

[Ignoramus]

Agreef.  Day 1 updates are ####### insanity, IMO.  I understand that there will be patches, tweaks and DLC but day 1?  So bad. 

 

[Ignoramus]

Sorry, bud, but a 10 gig file should only take 10 or 15 minutes if you have fast interwebs.

No way.

What sort of service do you have?

 

[mr roboto]

Absolutely

Lol

 

[belljr]

if you have a disc why are you downloading?

 

[eoMMan]

No way.

What sort of service do you have?

I got Comcast. They claim 50 mb per second but I don't think it's quite that fast.

Regardless, let's say it's 25 mb per second. That's 1,500 mb per minute.....and 15,000 mb (or 15 gigs) in 10 minutes.

 

[Warsteinner]

For real?

Yeah, good buddy. I recently upgraded my innerwebs and it takes about 10 minutes now. 

 

[DallasDMac]

It's super windy here today, maybe that's part of the problem?

Probably, strong winds blow those bytes right off the wires.

 

[Eminence]

Probably, strong winds blow those bytes right off the wires.

That's what I figured. Stupid Comcast.

 

[ShamrockPride]

Probably, strong winds blow those bytes right off the wires.

Damn wind. Thanks Obama.

 

[Hov34]

Compuserve is a ##### isn't it.

 

[dfsguy]

I rent a copy of Call of Duty Black Ops 3 because I feel like shooting up some bad guys before I have to go to work.

I pop the disc in and I'm prompted to download a 10.791 GB patch with an estimated 8 hour download time.

Are you serious, bro? I'm not a 13 year old kid with hours to waste downloading a file. Sheesh, video games are weak nowadays.

That really makes renting games brutal.

 

[Brony]

After a couple of cups of coffee, I feel the call of duty. Black ops indeed. 

 

[belljr]

The standard in the video game industry now, due to physical production lead times, is to make and sell the disks with bugs and only 80% finished, and spend the last few weeks before the actual release date fixing bugs and polishing the final product. 

Disks rarely contain the working final  game. 

Not the ones on the new systems. They play just fine

 

[Green and Gold]

I got Comcast. They claim 50 mb per second but I don't think it's quite that fast.

Regardless, let's say it's 25 mb per second. That's 1,500 mb per minute.....and 15,000 mb (or 15 gigs) in 10 minutes.

Except when they say 25mb they mean megabits, so multiply that 10 minutes by 8.

 

[ShamrockPride]

Except when they say 25mb they mean megabits, so multiply that 10 minutes by 8.

That's also assuming a constant rate.

 

[shadyridr]

This is a legit complaint imo. I've resigned myself to not playing a new game until the day AFTER buying it. Gotta suck for renting.

 

[Green and Gold]

That's also assuming a constant rate.

It always makes me think of this.

 

[Fariq]

Chinese food being delivered by a Mexican

 

[jon_mx]

Chinese food being delivered by a Mexican

Yeah, you would think they could afford illegal Chinese labor instead.  

 

[eoMMan]

Except when they say 25mb they mean megabits, so multiply that 10 minutes by 8.

Ok.  I've never even heard of megabits....

I just know that my Comcast high speed internet is very fast (imo).  The bill sucks every month but it's fast.

 

[eoMMan]

That's also assuming a constant rate.

Are the internet speed tests on-line fairly accurate?

One said I was getting 57 mb/s and another was saying like 90 mb/s.

 

[McGarnicle]

When girls withhold sex for a few more dates because they really like you and want you to respect them. Then you finally just say look, I'm married anyway and they get all pissed off! Women don't make any sense.

 

[Conanthecontrarian]

A flame about this high? Oh wait, that's a different joke.