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Downloading the game on release day - malachi1990 - 09-03-2010
Out of curiosity, is there a plan to keep the servers from being overloaded on release day? I don't think anyone want's to download a 1 GB file at 20 kb/s.
(Perhaps letting some of the people who pre-ordered download early and then seed the torrent?)
RE: Downloading the game on release day - Cheesezorz - 09-03-2010
Steam can handle such a puny amount of downloaders.
RE: Downloading the game on release day - SHODANFreeman - 09-03-2010
(09-03-2010, 03:17 AM)malachi1990 Wrote: Out of curiosity, is there a plan to keep the servers from being overloaded on release day?
I like your optimism, but I doubt it will be an issue, especially with the Steam activation keys taking a large chunk of the bandwidth hit.
RE: Downloading the game on release day - jens - 09-03-2010
I am fairly confident it will not be a problem. As said there is Steam and they will not have a problem I assume taking care of the few downloads we have, compared to when they release things like Alien Swarm...
For ourselves the game is hosted on a file cloud, so it should be more than capable to handle quite a bit of downloads. Beyond that, if it turns out to be a problem with the bandwidth we can get a torrent up and running quickly.
RE: Downloading the game on release day - malachi1990 - 09-03-2010
Cool, I had forgotten about Steam (*facepalm*).
RE: Downloading the game on release day - PrinceCola - 09-03-2010
(09-03-2010, 01:59 PM)malachi1990 Wrote: Cool, I had forgotten about Steam (*facepalm*).
It happens to all of u....wait? Did you forgot steam?? OMG LOLZ
Naw just kidding
RE: Downloading the game on release day - malachi1990 - 09-03-2010
Not too hard as I use linux exclusively.
RE: Downloading the game on release day - nofsky - 09-03-2010
Good to hear there won't be any speed problems on release. I wanna play it as soon as possible
RE: Downloading the game on release day - SHODANFreeman - 09-03-2010
(09-03-2010, 05:47 PM)malachi1990 Wrote: Not too hard as I use linux exclusively.
Well, there are rumors of Steam coming to Linux soon.