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jthwilliams

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Danz D Man said:
Wait...on Steam it says it is "available" on November 10, but I thought the release date was the 11th...what is this madness? I haven't bought a new release game on Steam yet, being recent to the PC gaming scene. Anyone care to enlighten me?
11/10/11 at 10 pm PST. Which is 11/11/11 at 1 am EST. So at least in the US with it will download on 11/10 or 11/11 is a mater of which timezone you happen to be in.
 

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Somonah said:
People still buy PC games from stores?


EDIT- i bet the people who buy PC games from RL shops also have VHS players, a CRT monitor and music on cassettes.
There was originally talk of a cloth map, which was revealed to be lie. That was the only reason I considered buying it from the store. But, lesson learned. I mean, the only reason I considered a source besides Steam was because it was a Steamworks title.
 

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Kitsuna10060 said:
Aris Khandr said:
Well frak. If true, this is really going to upset a friend of mine in NZ. They have a download cap, and Skyrim would chew hers up like a pack of wolves on a steak.
>.> have you TOLD her yet? cause i can already hear her raging at this
No. Because I refuse to get her upset any sooner than needed. If Friday comes and that is the case, she'll rage then. If not, no sense in getting her mad for three days over nothing.
 

DasDestroyer

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Protip: buy it on steam asap and start preloading. That's what I did, and I will be able to play it as soon as it comes out.
 

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Aris Khandr said:
Kitsuna10060 said:
Aris Khandr said:
Well frak. If true, this is really going to upset a friend of mine in NZ. They have a download cap, and Skyrim would chew hers up like a pack of wolves on a steak.
>.> have you TOLD her yet? cause i can already hear her raging at this
No. Because I refuse to get her upset any sooner than needed. If Friday comes and that is the case, she'll rage then. If not, no sense in getting her mad for three days over nothing.
*nods nods* for the best, x.x hope its not true for her sake, she's already to limited in what she can do DL wise :/ be a massive kick to the teeth if a game she wants screws her over to
 

Creator002

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Well, if true, thank God I can't get it until January. By then we'll have switched to 200-500 GB a month from how much bandwidth the modem wants to give us a month.
 

Insanity72

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Baresark said:
Somonah said:
People still buy PC games from stores?


EDIT- i bet the people who buy PC games from RL shops also have VHS players, a CRT monitor and music on cassettes.
There was originally talk of a cloth map, which was revealed to be lie.
Umm...do you have a source that says the premium map is a lie? Because i have not been able to find one article, blog or announcement stating that it's a lie.

Bethesda has stated that the Premium map will be made of a similar material to Burlap
 

jthwilliams

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Mr.Tea said:
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neonsword13-ops said:
Console gaming for da win! BAD FORUMITE!

OT: But seriously, that sucks. The Steam servers are going to be very busy come 11/11/11.
No, the servers are busy right now because people can start pre-loading Skyrim as of about an hour ago.

Like I said in another thread: If Valve only unlocked the downloads for everyone at the same time at launch, they might as well be 'DDoS'ing themselves.
Are you sure? I pre-bought but it has started downloading yet. I have been expecting it to download but be locked but so far it just sits there.
Yes I'm sure. [http://store.steampowered.com/news/6733/] However, I don't expect pre-loading to start everywhere at the same time, since the whole point of it is to spare the content servers that kind of traffic.

Or you might just be in a different time zone?
yeah, your are probably right. they may doing it in batches or by time zone
 

FarleShadow

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....people have limited download's on their internet plan?

Wow. I Guess the 1990's sucked.
 
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Somonah said:
People still buy PC games from stores?


EDIT- i bet the people who buy PC games from RL shops also have VHS players, a CRT monitor and music on cassettes.
I see what you did thar... I order pc games offline "again visual novels but that's not what's on topic here". I can understand why people are pissed off at this.. but what can you do?
 

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Somonah said:
I bet the people who buy PC games from RL shops also have VHS players, a CRT monitor and music on cassettes.
That is completely untrue and unfounded. I do NOT have music on cassettes!

On a side note, is this game coming on a DVD or a CD? Because if so little data is used, it might as well be the latter.
 

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neonsword13-ops said:
Console gaming for da win!


OT: But seriously, that sucks. The Steam servers are going to be very busy come 11/11/11.
Never has The Office been put to such good use...
 

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I almost preordered from a brick and mortar store since my DSL is hit-or-miss and I've had Steam server problems with preloads in the past. I'm glad I changed my mind and went with Steam-only.
 

Jimmy Sylvers

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I really have trouble believing this. If it is true it will cause much rage especially in Australia where I know a lot of people have very limited internet connections.
 

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Waaghpowa said:
zacman5001 said:
Somonah said:
People still buy PC games from stores?
I get most of my games from steam, But there's no way I'm downloading 5Gb+ games if I don't have to. Canadian ISP's have low download caps.
Primus Canada ISP, same speed as Bell highspeed, unlimited bandwidth for 35 bucks a month. Neither Bell, nor Rogers offers that.
Or Shaw depending on where you live. I got unlimited. Granted its their fastest package but its unlimited.
 

Firetaffer

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I'm from New Zealand, was going to buy it, now I can't without sacrificing some half my months worth of internet.
 

WolfThomas

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Doesn't worry me true or not, for the first time ever I bought an elderscrolls game on x-box not pc (getting too old).
 

Vergial

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...I'm having a hard time believing just how dense almost everyone in this thread is.

He has the game before launch.

It's a Steam game.

BEFORE LAUNCH.

STEAM GAME.

Is this helping anyone make the connection? At all?

For those still quite slow: The disc has data to check with Steam to see if the game is actually released. If it is not, nothing happens. If it IS, the install can proceed. Steam has done this for MULTIPLE games to avoid the pre-launch gameplay silliness.

Christ. My IQ dropped just looking at this thread.