I live in Australia, and probably the main reason I still buy physical copies of games is because our Internet access is typically slow and expensive here. Mine certainly is.

So I got a particularly rude shock when I started installing Fallout 4 today and found that only ~5GB of the game's ~24GB total data is actually included on the disc that came with my physical copy. Instead of getting to play the game today, I'm faced with at least a thirteen hour wait while the rest of the game downloads. I'm just glad that the game's Steam data is already on my ISP's local servers so that it counts as unmetered; if it wasn't, I wouldn't have enough left of my monthly data limit to download the game.

It's obviously too late for Fallout 4, but to Bethesda/Zenimax/whoever is responsible; please don't do this again. I'm pretty unhappy about this; I was really looking forward to playing Fallout 4 today.

I have to agree with you man. I don't have the problem of how long its gonna take to download through steam. But its still a hell of alot longer than would be needed to just install it from the disc. But still I bought, the PHYSICAL copy of game so that I would always have it on hand and at the ready. Soooo now if I dont have internet later on down the line and want to re-install and play the game again I can't because the PHYSICAL copy of the game is not actually that. So to whomever thought this was a brilliant design/idea....you sir and/or madam are an asshat; tysm.