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Downloading the game on release day
malachi1990 Offline
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Downloading the game on release day

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?)
09-03-2010, 03:17 AM
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Cheesezorz Offline
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Steam can handle such a puny amount of downloaders.
09-03-2010, 04:59 AM
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RE: Downloading the game on release day

(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.
09-03-2010, 05:23 AM
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RE: Downloading the game on release day

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.
09-03-2010, 05:46 AM
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RE: Downloading the game on release day

Cool, I had forgotten about Steam (*facepalm*).
09-03-2010, 01:59 PM
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RE: Downloading the game on release day

(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
09-03-2010, 02:36 PM
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RE: Downloading the game on release day

Not too hard as I use linux exclusively. Smile
09-03-2010, 05:47 PM
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Good to hear there won't be any speed problems on release. I wanna play it as soon as possible Smile
09-03-2010, 06:44 PM
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RE: Downloading the game on release day

(09-03-2010, 05:47 PM)malachi1990 Wrote: Not too hard as I use linux exclusively. Smile

Well, there are rumors of Steam coming to Linux soon. Smile
09-03-2010, 08:02 PM
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