General Discussion - WDYM NO PRELOAD ? - Forum

" Soop#0082 wrote: If your internet is that slow, that its going to take half a day to download, how are you even going to play the game? You can play most modern games on a really potato net, like a year ago I used to live in a place that had at best DSL, nothing else and that was like 150Kb... took weeks to download certain things but it still could play online games like PoE, shooters, and other online games.	Posted by Ashgan9#6435 on Dec 2, 2024, 5:43:24 PM Quote this Post
" NasusPodInta#1947 wrote: " firenovix#6291 wrote: " Rikku#7536 wrote: [ Hot take: you're not a developer and for good reason. Hot take : You won't be able to play aswell even wtih 50000GB internet because servers are gonna burn and you will download SHIT. yikes Who says I have fast internet lol. Also if you read the post above yours I'm fully expecting there to be problems on launch, it's an Early Access. Be happy if you download slow, you might just avoid some of those issues. Last edited by firenovix#6291 on Dec 2, 2024, 5:45:50 PM	Posted by firenovix#6291 on Dec 2, 2024, 5:43:52 PM Quote this Post
You could always set up google remote access on your computer and on your phone and access your computer at lunch and start the download Last edited by BigJoe1981#4119 on Dec 2, 2024, 5:51:08 PM	Posted by BigJoe1981#4119 on Dec 2, 2024, 5:50:53 PM Quote this Post
" vio#1992 wrote: " Rikku#7536 wrote: " firenovix#6291 wrote: You basically want them to allow datamining for your own personal gains. Hot take: majority doesn't care about dataminers or other spoiled infos and just wants to play when EA starts, not like 12h later cause slow internet the posts of those people who don't care about the game are always the most important thing a dev team should pay attention to!!111 the majority of players is selfish and would take every advantage over other players presented to them? could be true, there is just no need to feed them advantages Right, so don't let people who lucked into being in a region with better internet play a day early. There's no need to feed their advantage, after all. Steam offers encrypted preloads. People should at least be given that option. " How Steam preloads work Everything that has been described above also applies to preloads, except for one minor detail — the encryption key is not accessible until the game releases. Steam downloads all the chunks into *.csd files in the depotcache folder, and when the encryption key becomes available, it will decrypt it. When downloading a released game, the decryption process happens while downloading, but when decrypting a preload, Steam has to read and write data to disk, so if your disk is slow but you have fast internet, it may actually take longer to decrypt a preload than re-downloading the game. Last edited by Daxidol#0706 on Dec 2, 2024, 5:54:11 PM	Posted by Daxidol#0706 on Dec 2, 2024, 5:51:42 PM Quote this Post
" Daxidol#0706 wrote: Right, so don't let people who lucked into being in a region with better internet play a day early. There's no need to feed their advantage, after all. Steam offers encrypted preloads. People should at least be given that option. that's a good method actuallly, didn't know. i don't use propriatary (gaming) plattforms which take away all my games if the owning company goes the way all capitalist companies go one day. age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill!	Posted by vio#1992 on Dec 2, 2024, 5:56:21 PM Alpha Member Quote this Post
" vio#1992 wrote: the posts of those people who don't care about the game are always the most important thing a dev team should pay attention to!!111 what are you even on about, ppl asking for preload = "people who don't care about the game"? What a nonsense. " vio#1992 wrote: the majority of players is selfish and would take every advantage over other players presented to them? could be true, there is just no need to feed them advantages yeah lets feed "advantages" to ppl with fast internet instead	Posted by Rikku#7536 on Dec 2, 2024, 5:58:14 PM Quote this Post
Call your ISP guys, higher download speed to be ordered.	Posted by Waiden#9514 on Dec 2, 2024, 6:02:33 PM Quote this Post
Im just worried about the queue times lol	Posted by Fatoona#5814 on Dec 2, 2024, 6:03:11 PM Quote this Post
" Rikku#7536 wrote: what are you even on about, ppl asking for preload = "people who don't care about the game"? What a nonsense. preloads killed several leagues already, players datamined all the interesting stuff and interactions the new league contained and spoiled it beforehand. -- i think that encrypting the game ressources and delivering the decryption key shortly before release is a really good alternative ... if valve hasn't patented it already. age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill!	Posted by vio#1992 on Dec 2, 2024, 6:04:39 PM Alpha Member Quote this Post
The queues will be so big that no one will have problems with download wait times xD	Posted by Apollyon#8263 on Dec 2, 2024, 6:11:42 PM Quote this Post