Will poe2 be aveilable for pre download in steam 1-2 days before EA release ?
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To be clear i meant pre-download not a regular download. the topic was about pre-downloads.
Unless i am wrong, steam policy is to NOT let people pre-download Early Access games. |
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the wording from the faq leads me to believe that just like every poe league you can download the game files before league launch.
If steam doesn't allow it then ggg probably has their own launcher, just like poe1 has and you can preload it there. I would be surprised if the wording in their FAQ means you can only download the launcher itself and no game files at all. My guess is Wednesday the latest we should have more info if and when you can preload game files. And if not - early access will be for a long time. |
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" youtube.com/@poe2boss
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" The "steam key" is only to more easily get the game recognized by steam and the achievments for it. Not an actual key. It's like a step up from booting a game thats not on steam ... via steam. xD Maybe GGG will "realese" it early on steam and have servers turned off till true realese. I dont know. Probably will download it in steam. I got fast internet and have a DnD group playing fridays. Till we finish it should be done. So i can watch the que while chatting xD. |
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Hopefully support is checking this so we have more clarity.
Per latest interview between JR and Ziz, it was mentioned that we might not be getting pre-download after all due to potential datamining. However in the FAQ section on POE2 topics this was added few days ago: When will I be able to download the client? A few days prior to the Early Access launch. We’ll announce the details in the news, so you won’t miss it! Please give final response if we should be able to download the game at least 1 day before release or several hours before release. Thank you GGG |
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According to Jhonattan Rogers in his recent interview with Zizaran, it seems there won’t be a pre-download available before launch, as they’re concerned about potential data mining. Brace yourselves, folks—this is going to be rough!
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" This also got me bummed out. Dataminers usually don't have slow connections whereas most other - "normal" - people and non-streamers would be behind at least 3-6 hours if you are on any connection that is not glass fiber. I do understand that this is to limit datamining potential but then at the same time, the whole client can already be downloaded on Xbox and I'd rather have the possibility of a Dataminer having access to the game's files and have everyone somewhat start playing at or around the same time. |
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We need update for this asap. I have slow connection.
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It's kind of weird. On this website, it says you can pre-load a few days before launch, but Johnathan said on a podcast just now that the concern about pre-loads is datamining. He said he would have a discussion about that with the team.
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No Preload said on the podcast hard L!
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