Can I buy Uplink without the CD?

[direvus]

I'm looking for a nice, simple, direct download option for buying Uplink. I neither want nor need a copy of the CD sent to me, and Introversion's store seems utterly determined to make me pay for this superfluous service.

I really wish this was on Steam ... I'd already be playing it.

[edd8990]

Not from IV.

You can download the strat. first version, but then the developers get no money from it, and it will be incompatible with the mods that have been coded.

If you buy it from IV, you will be able to download it. when the CD comes, if yo don't want it, use it as a frisbee.

[exosyphen]

Here, download only :
http://www.smartgamers.net/download-Uplink-412.html

[NeoThermic]

Here, download only :
http://www.smartgamers.net/download-Uplink-412.html

Thats the 'Strategy First' version, so I would *really* suggest not to get it.

If you want a downloadable copy of Uplink, then I would suggest to Purchase Uplink from the Introversion Store, and see if they would honour your request to not have the disk. Although, saying that, the disk and the box are nice to have, I fail to see why you wouldn't want them

NeoThermic

[direvus]

I ended up just buying it from the IV store.

The reason I don't want the CD is severalfold:

1. If I already have the game via download, the CD is really totally pointless. It's just taking up space.

2. I had to pay extra for Uplink to cover the postage of an item that doesn't actually serve any purpose.

3. I live in Australia, so I had to pay extra postage, again for something I don't want.

Downloading games makes more sense than having them physically shipped. It's faster, it's cleaner, it's cheaper, it's less complicated, it's better in every possible way. It's one thing to not offer a download option ... some companies decide that downloads are too risky or that bandwidth would be an issue. That's cool. But to decide you will offer a download option and then make the physical option compulsory ... it just does my head in.

[exosyphen]

These days, bandwidth is as big as an issue as air. There is plenty and cheap

We offer both options for our game. Download and Download + CD.
I have to admit the was majority chooses Download only, and I don't believe price is an issue ($5 for the CD shipped anywhere in the world).

[Darksun]

it's better in every possible way.

Actually, I much prefer to have a CD copy. I like CDs and Printed Manuals, and it also adds the security of having a backup copy incase your harddrive decides to go kufump.

Also, since I'm at uni a lot of the time, I can't use any download system that uses a custom file transfer system, like Steam.

[Babylon5]

I like CDs and Printed Manuals

Me too

I feel more satisfied when i buy a game with cd and stuff