[citation][nom]bluekoala[/nom]Why would you want that?You obviously have access to the internet, MMO's are played online.Besides, opening a cd-rom, waiting for it to start, hearing it start, OS takes a sh!t is a tedious chore.But hey, who am I to judge? I still glance at a newspaper from time to time[/citation]
to play an mmo, you need an okish connection... hell dial up could support most mmos today (you would get lag spikes though)
for a fps, you almost require a dsl or cable modem...
now, to download a 25gb game... what do you need for that?
if it downloads as an exe than you need to install, at worst you need 75gb of free space
if it downloads as a game, you need time...
you need a 6 hour chunk of time, and its possible that if the system isn't perfect it will force a re download (right out of the gate i don't expect this to be perfect)
1 million people signed up for the beta, and that was a 2 day period of time... so lets assume a 1million week 1 people... how many places are capable of delivering 25gb of game to 1million people at the same time, all while saturating your connections.
than there is the whole store getting cut out, expenses on deliveries cut out, and all that crap, but the digital costs as much if not more than retail versions.
there are plenty of real reasons to prefer a physical coppy over a digital... format your computer, you have to re download the whole damn thing... while a dvd would have it on in under 1 hour, a download will most likely take at lest 2, and at worst 6 if they can only feed 1mb a second.
you also have to take into account down the line when this game gets pulled off line... it will be harder for a 3rd party to crack it and distribute it (im looking at the old phatacy star online when i say this)
[citation][nom]ben850[/nom]Not to mention most games' files are completely replaced by online updates after the first couple of weeks.[/citation]
most of those files are minor... im going by everquest when i say this, the biggest files in the game that take space are the zone files, music and such, where they take up to 10gb of space alone, and most other content of the like is 1gb download... while most core game files will change over time... the bulk of the game files wont, and would be a pain in the butt to redownload again if format.
[citation][nom]bystander[/nom]Is this going to be an actual MMO, or is it going to be like the original Guild Wars, in which it was more like a Diablo2 server, only the towns were like the text based lobbies where people can get groups together, and all the combat areas are limited to a single group.[/citation]
take a look at the game videos, it looks to be a full on mmo, and the party system seams at least to me to be its most appealing aspect.