UBI passes Epi filter debacle cost onto customers?

PeterPanPan · #1 03-29-2011, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Shrike_UK

Excuse me, but i have to pay £1 per GB that i download. I dont mind downloading 500MB patches, but i wanted to buy a DVD and install the Game, then patch it. Are you telling me that on top of the £30 to buy the game, i have to pay an additional £10 or so to download it?

Think you should change your ISP. £1 per GB seems like a rip off to me. I am with BT and think I get 10GB free per month.

Shrike_UK · #2 03-29-2011, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by PeterPanPan

Think you should change your ISP. £1 per GB seems like a rip off to me. I am with BT and think I get 10GB free per month.

Yep im with BT Option 1. But i always use up my entire 10GB quota. This would mean i go over by the size of the game.

Nobody forced me to be on this ISP package. Im unemployed at the moment, so i'm only eating 1 meal a day in order to afford to buy the game. BT Option 1 is cheapest for me. Cant afford to add more cost to my phone bill.

Wurschtie · #3 03-29-2011, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Shrike_UK

But i always use up my entire 10GB quota. This would mean i go over by the size of the game.

I think it's friggin boldness from UBI to really think that their customers should have an internet connection. At least, they could make contracts with major ISPs, and put vouchers for volume into the game boxes. Or, better, send USB sticks to every customer with every patch.

Shrike_UK · #4 03-29-2011, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Wurschtie

I think it's friggin boldness from UBI to really think that their customers should have an internet connection. At least, they could make contracts with major ISPs, and put vouchers for volume into the game boxes. Or, better, send USB sticks to every customer with every patch.

Exactly, i mean, they require you to have an internet connection, thats another cost, and whos paying for it?

In this day and age pretty much everyone has internet, so thats not much an issue for me, i cannot afford afford a TV licence, so i rely on internet for entertainment and looking for jobs etc...

Wynthorpe · #5 03-29-2011, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Shrike_UK

Exactly, i mean, they require you to have an internet connection, thats another cost, and whos paying for it?

In this day and age pretty much everyone has internet, so thats not much an issue for me, i cannot afford afford a TV licence, so i rely on internet for entertainment and looking for jobs etc...

You need at TV License if you have the internet now i beleive.

Shrike_UK · #6 03-29-2011, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Wynthorpe

You need at TV License if you have the internet now i beleive.

Not when i last filled in the exemption form for TV licence in December. Unless its changed very recently. In fact, they even tell you you can watch yesterdays programs on the internet on BBC iPlayer if you like. You just have to prove you have no Digital TV plugged in capable of recieving a signal. And i dont because my Sky+ box is broken and i have no Arial for Analogue TV.

tomandre81 · #7 03-29-2011, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Wurschtie

I think it's friggin boldness from UBI to really think that their customers should have an internet connection. At least, they could make contracts with major ISPs, and put vouchers for volume into the game boxes. Or, better, send USB sticks to every customer with every patch.

We live in 2011. Do you know a person who owns a computer without having internet? People buy computers because they have internet so they can pay bills, watch news etc.
Even some places in the jungle of africa they have internet.
In some parts of the world there are not internet.
Some parts of world there is war, some other places not.
DEAL WITH IT and stop whining

cato_larsen · #8 03-29-2011, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Shrike_UK

Yep im with BT Option 1. But i always use up my entire 10GB quota. This would mean i go over by the size of the game.

Nobody forced me to be on this ISP package. Im unemployed at the moment, so i'm only eating 1 meal a day in order to afford to buy the game. BT Option 1 is cheapest for me. Cant afford to add more cost to my phone bill.

Hmm, could be that I am wrong but my download via steam for the russian version was way less than that. Even though it states in yuplay that it is 13 GB or so, I think it was more like 4 or 6 GB. Cannot remember now.

Triggaaar · #9 03-29-2011, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Shrike_UK

Excuse me, but i have to pay £1 per GB that i download. I dont mind downloading 500MB patches, but i wanted to buy a DVD and install the Game, then patch it.

I do see your point of view that when you install from a DVD then you shouldn't have to download the whole game. This obviously isn't a deliberate ploy though, it's just one of those things (the dev team are quite busy at the moment).

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Originally Posted by Shrike_UK

Yep im with BT Option 1. But i always use up my entire 10GB quota. This would mean i go over by the size of the game.

I know your original post is complaing about Ubi etc, but lets ignore that for a second and try to help you with your problem. Change your ISP, they are charging you too much and providing you with too little. I pay less than you and have unlimited downloads and have never had a problem connecting. Do some research and change.

cato_larsen · #10 03-29-2011, 12:42 PM

I think also SimBin had the same issue with Race07 series. Buy the dvd and still download from Steam. I understand someones issues about this. I dont know the prices for flat, unlimited amount of up/downloads in U.K or anywhere but in Norway where I live.
I pay about £20 a month for 16MB down, and shitty upload, but I never upload or host much, sooo... Maybe it is expensive, but again. Norway is expensive.