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[TrueHD]

I queried Chris on this some time ago but he didn't get a chance to respond.

Before I waste money on some pitiful MP3 version, can anyone confirm that a physical release is indeed on the way to the BioWare store? The description sure makes it sound like it. 

[BioWareStore Jedi]

We do not have answer yet if there will be a hard copy released. We are working on finding out, but there is nothing coming in the short term so you best best is going to be Itunes or Amazon.

[Hellhawx]

or Zune

[ShadowWolf930]

Hellhawx wrote...

or Zune

I second that, haha. Show Zune some love.

[xLiKx]

this OST demands a physical copy with pretty art

[anders the gamer]

xLiKx wrote...

this OST demands a physical copy with pretty art

I agree. I may be a bit old-fashioned, but I really prefer physical compared to download. The sound quality is better, and you get it in a nice cover; and you are then able to play it on other CD players than just the computer.

So I am hoping and looking-forward to a physical release of the ME2 OST (and Dragon Age too!) - hopefully in the near future :-).

Modifié par anders the gamer, 26 mars 2010 - 10:48 .

[Jax Sparrow]

ummm... that depends on what the quality is of the mp3's you are downloading. Anything >320 is @ or above CD quality. You the consumer are then free to burn said mp3s onto a blank hard copy disk that you can play in your CD player... or transfer to your iphone. I prefer mp3s because I get them faster and I can do everything you can do with a hardcopy and more... its like the difference between vinyl and CDs... except its harder to scratch an mp3.

There are even ways for the consumer to pain the back of their CD's with whatever artwork they fancy.

Modifié par Jax Sparrow, 27 mars 2010 - 08:26 .

[Dsurian]

...though many people are loving this digital direct downloading thats sweeping the interwebs, many other people (including myself) love tactile value....and it would be very hard for us to get over that.  For instance, I've just recently been buying music off Itunes, which i hate the thought of, but its not like i can buy many single song CD's most of the time, and my only local CD store just went out of business anyways.  Plus, with very few Steam purchases aside, all of my video games over the last 10 years have been bought through a physical retailer, usually Gamestop.  It's the tactile value that drives us...the fact that after we buy something, we can literally hold it in our hands, feel the worth of whatever it was we bought,  and know that we can use it whenever we want to.  Yet we still get to hear the simple pleasures (or otherwise annoying pubescent crying) of claims about faulty downloads, limited installs, and no return policies...

But in response to your points about CD's:  The fact that you have a physical booklet, as apposed to a silly virtual one, helps; whenever i want to know "Oh, whats that song?", if im in front of a computer its not like i can't not know, virtual booklet aside...but if I'm out in a car, its not like the virtual booklet back home on my computer is going to help me at all.  Also, the fact that a retail CD has any and all information from each track pre-applied so that if you were to import it, it would be absolutley fine...and if you were to play them on an aftermarket CD player, it will likely even display track info.  While if you burn a custom CD filled with various downloaded or ripped .mp3's (or even if all the songs are from the same album), its rare that all the track/cd info will be correctly applied to the burned CD...and even rarer for that info to be displayed correctly or at all after then importing it to another hard drive.  And as much as i care about this argument, its really quite irrelevant anyways as we've been in the MP3-player-age for quite some time now and even i realize that fact that CDs are vastly becoming the new vinyl...which in turn is irrelevant since there are plenty of vinyl lovers, collectors, and buyers even today.

...btw, interesting superiority complex jax.

Edit: And just in case i wasn't clear, I'm very hopeful that there will be a physical release of the soundtrack.  Seriously, if you can't throw it in with the ME2 CE like you did with the DA:O CE, at least make it available for physical retail...

Modifié par Dsurian, 29 mars 2010 - 08:06 .

[Burdokva]

I was just about to post that question - really looking forward to a physical audio CD release of the OST!