I was in for a major surprise today when I received a package from a good friend of mine: It was an early birthday gift in the form of an issue of "Gamer" magazine as well as a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops for the Personal Computer! This friend of mine is no gamer himself - like I mentioned before, I don't have any local gaming friends - but of course he knows just how much I love video games so when he heard all the hoopla about Black Ops, he thought he would beat everyone else - including myself - to the punch by getting the game for me immediately. The magazine is of course, a very pleasing gesture - he would get me a game magazine for my birthday sometimes. Black Ops is Steam-activated and that is of course, the preferred method of PC gaming distribution for me. Here's the problem though: it was impossible for me to install the game from the actual disc. After many tries - which include me repeatedly stopping the Steam client from accessing the online files for download and deleting the partial downloaded data - I gave up on the disc and just allowed the client to install the game for me, a process that is estimated to take around 4 hours. The gift is still very special indeed and I never would have guessed that I would actually own this game any time soon.
Activision spent very little in packaging this game for the retail market.
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