John Carmack creator of Rage, the upcoming title from id Software, had once stated that the game would be too large for digital distribution. It now seems as though that may change.
Here's what id Software's Tim Willits and Todd Hollenshead has to say on the matter.
Feel free to read the rest of the interview over at 1UP.
Here's what id Software's Tim Willits and Todd Hollenshead has to say on the matter.
We haven't quite worked through our electronic-distribution. John Carmack [id co-founder] made a comment about the media size, which unfortunately wasn't exactly correct because we haven't crossed that bridge yet. He said it was going to be too large to download, and I was thinking to myself, "You know, uhhhhh, people can do lots of things." So I want to correct that and say that....Keep in mind that id has teamed up with EA for distribution, so while they aren't ruling out digital distribution entirely, it may only end up on the EA downloader, if at all.
Rage won't break the Internet. Our relationship with Valve and our stuff on Steam has been very successful for us. A lot of the older games that we had to fix to work on newer operating systems allowed us to make them current. I had a Steam account on my machine at work, and if I wanted to load up old Wolfenstein or Doom at work, I [would] load it up on Steam because of DOSBox and all that stuff. And it's actually pretty awesome. We've been very successful with that.
Feel free to read the rest of the interview over at 1UP.