A little less than an hour. :3
Yeah but not everyone has uber-fast internets. Some people are still on dial-up even. Which sucks. Not me though. 4Gbs would still take awhile on my connection…
hence the :3 
I’m also exaggerating slightly, it would probably be more like an hour and a half. 12Mbps? so 1.5MBps? if 5 gigs is 5000 MB, that’s… .93 hours or 55 minutes. In a perfect world where no one else is using my internet and download speeds are ideal. so more like 90 minutes.
4GB would probably take me about 2 - 3 days to dowload (not being left on over night.) BSkyB don’t have very good internet connection , but it comes free so it’s good value.
20Mbit/s + torrent = about 50mins
:3
eurgh, I have a BSkyB connection and it’s AWFUL.
Worse still, I could go with BT and have a ~500% increase in speed for £5 a month less.
Although it wouldn’t take me 4-5 days to download here, it would take around 4-5 hours.
I used to have ping problems with my ISP but now I play on some servers with 5ms ping and the download speed is awesome. (around 10mbit)
I tried playing L4D once with my friend when he had crappy internet. His brother was downloading a movie, and he had a ping of 2000. He wasn’t very competitive.
[align=center]https://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2008/GDC2008_CrossPlatformDevelopment.pdf
[align=left]I’m sure, at least once EP3 is released, valve is going to want to port it like they did with “still alive”…
It would make an interesting post-release community project. Just underclock a TriCore AMD thing down to 2.0ghz (~3.2Ghz without OOE/limited BP), get a 2900 GT (virtually identical to the Xenos) and downclock the RAM, get a gig of DDR2 in dual channel and try to keep the total memory footprint (vid+sys) under a half gig. No devkit required![/align]
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Yeah, tell me about it. I plan to start the mod downloading in the morning and leaving it slowly, slowly ticking over until I get back from work =/
Different to what I had in mind. 
I think that this thread is pretty much dead now though. 
In order to efficiently load the game from optical media the team would have to restructure the game content. Similar to how things are stored on Console game discs. With optimizations made specially for the DVD format.
Just dumping the “for harddrive” content over on a disc wouldn’t work well.
tl;dr never gonna happen
Believe it or not, this was first posted by a dev, so it’s quite likely a real BM dvd.
That, or it’s a joke.
NO SHIT SHERLOCK
I am fully aware that it’s a joke.
But seeing as it was posted by a dev, it could have contained a real BM image.
Provided that this does come with an installer as its been said to, then I don’t see why you couldn’t put it onto a disc. Just add an autorun file leading to the installer and your done.
Although that would be correct, I meant originally that you run it like you would an XBOX 360 game.
That shit’s not gonna happen. Who would want to do that, anyway?