CD orders...

[Mickey Crocker]

When you offer a CD option on your download orders. How do you guys go about the production of the CDs? Do you just put a label on it, put it in a paper envelope, and send it on it's way? Or do you actually have game boxes designed?

[z3lda]

If you use www.bmtmicro.com they will add an additional $10 to the order for CDs.

If I was handling the CD myself, I would buy a nice laser printer that prints directly on the CD. .

[Josh]

What % actually request for a cd? Most of the games are no more then 15mb.

[Hamumu]

I get 40% CD orders. I have a CD burner/printer (the Bravo Primera, it's a robot!), and a laser printer, and a cutting thingie (like a papercutter, but you roll it across the paper instead of kachunking it down), so I use those to make manuals and CDs and covers for DVD cases. I think the result looks great. It'd be too time-consuming with lots of orders, but if I ever got enough that that was a problem, I'd gladly switch to having big runs of them made up professionally - it'd cost less per copy anyway! Not to mention being more professionally done. Although I do like the freedom to update the contents as needed.

[mkovacic]

What % actually request for a cd? Most of the games are no more then 15mb.

Quite a few, which is really surprising since our full versions are 2MB (CPuzzle) and 3MB (L&S). Plus, we use the eMetrix CD delivery option which
is damn expensive ($10).
We even had people ordering both games (second one discounted) on a CD, which makes the total order ~$50 ($30 for the games and $20 for the CD delivery)!

I think people mostly do it because they want to play it on the computers with no net access.

[Reanimated]

Sorry to hijack this thread, but has anyone used the CD ordering system from Plimus?