Completly not reading.

[RtkBedivere]

I know quite a few games do give you the choice of buying the CD or DVD version. Not sure if this holds true with CA and M2TW though.

Im pretty sure there is no CD version of M2TW your gonna have to get the drive.

[pevergreen]

Its only DVD unless you download it.

Who wants to download 7 gigs?

[TevashSzat]

If you have an optimized cable line downloading at about 256kb/sec it will take you only about seven and a half hours to download 7 gigs. Not that long compared to trying to download a two hour movie with dial up two weeks of no telephone.

[Shahed]

Now that was an original problem, if I ever saw one.

7 GiGs is pretty feasible. I would assume a hardcore gaming/multimedia/net fan uses double that bandwidth in a month.

[sapi]

^^ Considering that both of those are illegal in the vast majority of circumstances, we'll leave that subject for now.
Oh, and your maths is wrong. 256kb/sec=64KB/sec. You can download 1mb in 16 seconds, so that's (60*60 / 16) 225mb/hour, meaning it'd take days to download m2tw, even if you were doing it off a server near you (which in america is likely considering that's where initivies such as D2D are based).

As for the core issue, dvd drives are dirt cheap, so just upgrade.

I know that i for one won't buy any games on CDs because they're such a pain to install, and i think that all games should be on dvds and that's certainly how things are going to be in the future... (as an aside, you could go to the computer with a dvd drive, copy the data off the disc, burn it to multiple cds, copy it to your computer, extract each cd so that you make up the dvd structure and run setup.exe to get it running)

EDIT: And sinan, you're right - i've used 8gb/month for ages without even trying on a very slow (512kb) connection (that's my limit so i can't go too much over thanks to shaping)

[Mooks]

Any idea where to upgrade my drive? Maybe a website online?

[Shahed]

Can't really help you there as I always buy hardware at a store. It also depends where you are. UK has some cheap sites IIRC, but one of the cheapest I ever saw was an Eastern Euro online retailer, can't remember the name. If I do I'll post again.

Sapi back in 2003 when I was really hardcore, 10GB a month was gone in a breeze on 512K, then I upgraded to 1MBit.

Now I'm on 10 MBit (though it's shared), and I only do about 3-5 GiGs a month. Much more this month as M2TW has made me do all kinds of research. Watching videos (youtube etc) on all kinds of history. Gaming can take up a lot of bandwidth unknowingly. Also SKYPE can use a lot when you use it as a primary phone and you're almost always on.

[Quillan]

Holy, if you're in the US, I use Newegg.com. They don't ship outside the country though, so if you live someplace else you'll need to find one. You should be able to pick up a DVD-ROM drive for under $20. That's what I paid for my last one. Burners cost a little more, but not a lot. You can get an 18X DVD+-RW for $30 or so.

[sapi]

Can't really help you there as I always buy hardware at a store. It also depends where you are. UK has some cheap sites IIRC, but one of the cheapest I ever saw was an Eastern Euro online retailer, can't remember the name. If I do I'll post again.

Sapi back in 2003 when I was really hardcore, 10GB a month was gone in a breeze on 512K, then I upgraded to 1MBit.

Now I'm on 10 MBit (though it's shared), and I only do about 3-5 GiGs a month. Much more this month as M2TW has made me do all kinds of research. Watching videos (youtube etc) on all kinds of history. Gaming can take up a lot of bandwidth unknowingly. Also SKYPE can use a lot when you use it as a primary phone and you're almost always on.

I hate you :(

Avg. broadband speed in Australia is ~512kbs (you can get up to 1.5mbs on ADSL1 and 24mbs if you're lucky enough to have adsl2+ avaliable) and we pay a lot for what is to the rest of the world ridiculously slow speeds

@holybandit - you might as well upgrade to a DVD drive now as they're dirt cheap and useful for a variety of purposes...