haha hot from me

Looks a good price for a physical copy to me. Hot. Although I might wait a little longer....

Its not a awful game BUT the game engine is very outdated for 2015 , i was also disappointed with some of the dimming down of some of the RPG elements. But its still a very entertaining game even with its faults.

how in gods name can the DVD be cheaper than a digital version, which has much lower over heads :disappointed: something has gone wrong. great price though :smiley:

That's not actually true! The dvd to make and case costs around 20p. But the downloads costs around 5p per Gb to download for the provider. At 40gb that adds up quick.

Do you have a source for your statement? I'd be genuinely interested to see it. I don't believe that server/bandwidth costs would exceed the amount needed to actually transport a physical copy of a videogame to a shop that requires heating, lighting and probably rent to take into account. I suppose some of that applies to maintaining servers but even then, you're cutting out significant overheads faced by a tangible real world product.
I'd be interested to be proven wrong, though!

As for Fallout 4. I'm enjoying it immensely as I have with every game in the series. (bar a console exclusive that I think exists!)

That said, this iteration of the first person style Fallout is the 'shootiest' yet, VATS seems redundant and the RPG element to the game (dialogues and choices) seems quite light compared to New Vegas which was the benchmark for the series in my opinion.
That the protagonist is voiced during interactive sequences is really jarring for myself and I find the actor sounds very bored and disinterested most of the time but that could just be me.

On the other hand there are very pretty visuals and some great user made mods along with the interesting take on settlement building and brilliant use of Power Armour makes it a game worth playing all the same, especially at the £20(ish) mark. It's not as great as New Vegas but as entertaining as Fallout 3, for me. Good game but definitely not quite lived up to the hype, mainly due to the same old gamebryo trademarks such as awful A.I pathfinding and random crashes that New Vegas also had in spades but made up for it with a brilliant narrative.

Google "amazon ec2 server bandwidth pricing" to see prices. It's around $0.08 per gb.

In general 10 games with case weigh 1kg. So that gives you an idea how cheap shipping them around the world is. Can't comment on retail itself, with wages, rent etc. and was just comparing dvd and delivery vs. Bandwidth.

Everyone thing bandwidth is free, it's not and for a 40GB game, plus patches can add up quite a bit!

Dvd only contains 4.7 gb. :confused:

Unless there's 10 dvds in there, digital download still required.