Doom III Won't be on DVD

[Mogul]

Man, it is really too early to start shipping games on dvd exclusively.

I'm sure a lot of us on these forums have a dvd drive in their computer, but a lot of us don't.

Putting a game like Doom 3 exclusively on dvd would be very bad for the impact of the game, in my opinion, considering only like, half of us could install it.

Now, releasing a cd version AND dvd version might work.

[charris]

The_Tonx said:

Sorry, my mistake..

But wouldn't it be cool if DOOM III would come in 900-floppy edition? :p

...No...it wouldn't.

Floppies have the worst price per megabyte. So, 900 floppies, and a floppies are about $0.50. That's $450. Even if they sold floppies for a quarter, that's still $225.

DVDs all the way!

BTW: Is doom3 32 or 64 bit?

[dsm]

The_Tonx said:

But wouldn't it be cool if DOOM III would come in 900-floppy edition? :p

Heh nope.
Something like 75% (ok I'm just throwing off a wild guess here) of floppy discs nowadays are damaged, so they either have errors on them or are completely useless.
I don't know what the estimated percentage of errors on a floppy disc version would be, but my own guess would be something like a 95% risk that your copy of "Doom 3 Floppy Disc Edition" won't work due to at least one disc with damaged sectors.

So no, that wouldn't be cool. In fact, I think it'd be so seriously un-cool that Id would suddenly experience a true flood of fan mail containing nothing but death threats, should they make the move to floppy discs.