Pre-loading Stellaris
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In average, with my connection, I guess it would take around an hour. I don´t have to worry, I have other things to play, books to read and animes to watch in my HDD, so I can handle an hour. It´s nice that I am not anxious at all XD
It would take me about 10 minutes. But I know some friends state side who will not likely be able to play for hours afterwards. The internet is crazy as far as what is good and where. I live in one of the poorest parts of Canada, but we have one of the best internet services. It's... strange.
Wait.. I just realise that I could ask my girlfriend to klick the button while I am at work in the afternoon.. 
Praise the Blorg!
Does anyone know a "exact" time?
Praise the Blorg!Does anyone know a "exact" time?
I live in a students´ dorm, so the connection is pretty average/low. And anyway, we don´t have really good speeds in mid-sized, Southern Spanish towns and cities XD
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I can't remember when, but I remember a game that tried this style of preload, and someone was able to just sub in the EXE from a demo for the game and put the full thing up for pirated download a week before the game actually came out. I've also heard of similar things being done with launchers adapted from games with the same engine and such. There's a reason the current standard is encoding with a small missing component.
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I think the closes to an exact time we have so far is Noon to Evening CEST. So for me that is 6am to noon.Wait.. I just realise that I could ask my girlfriend to klick the button while I am at work in the afternoon..
Does anyone know a "exact" time?
I think I read a post from Wiz somewhere (in the Preorder announcement thread maybe) which stated they won't be doing preloads because it would require giving out Steam keys to third party stores before release...and that might end up in scams, double selling and all sorts of grey market nastiness.
Plus, of course, straight-up piracy. Games with encrypted preloads tend to end up being available as nice unencrypted torrents before the official release.
Can't blame them for the decision honestly.
Plus, of course, straight-up piracy. Games with encrypted preloads tend to end up being available as nice unencrypted torrents before the official release.
Can't blame them for the decision honestly.
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The game is only 4GB? That seems unusually small for a game this complex. That said, I can't even remember how big CK2 and EU4 were, so I don't really have a good comparison.
Still, on my 300Kb/s connection, 4Gb will take me.....
*tappitytappitytaptap*
Almost 4 hours.
So depending on the actual time of release I may or may not be able to have it downloading while at work.
If not It'll be 1-2hours late May 9th or May 10th start for me.
Which is honestly what I was expecting anyway.
Still, on my 300Kb/s connection, 4Gb will take me.....
*tappitytappitytaptap*
Almost 4 hours.
So depending on the actual time of release I may or may not be able to have it downloading while at work.
If not It'll be 1-2hours late May 9th or May 10th start for me.
Which is honestly what I was expecting anyway.
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My Steam installation of CK2 is 2166 MB, and the EU4 one is 1904 MB (admitedly, I am a bit back in EU, as I play version 1.13 to be able to play Lex Talionis, so newer patches may be heavier), so, it is practically twice as big as the other two main released paradox games.
Most of the heavyness in other "complex" games is actually graphics data, and we are not talking about some TW here
Good point.
As someone with admittedly slow D/L speed, this does make me love the games even more. Even if it's not a particularly active effort to keep the games small in size.
Thanks. So thats 3am on the 10th for me. To bad I'm at uni all day that day.
Just shear some sheep while its downloading, time flies when you're having fun.
19:00 CEST... not particularly happy about this. Was expecting something along the lines of 16:00 CEST (08:00 PDT). Will probably take a nap in the afternoon, set it to download at 19:00 and head to gym and maybe check it out a little afterwards.
So I have a long (8h) train trip starting fairly early on May 9th.
Obviously my phone connection won't let me download the game.
Any chance there could be an option to pre-download the game during the weekend and then it being unlocked in Steam only on the 9th? Pretty please? Otherwise I might have to murder all my fellow passengers to deal with the frustration of having to wait to play Stellaris.
Obviously my phone connection won't let me download the game.
Any chance there could be an option to pre-download the game during the weekend and then it being unlocked in Steam only on the 9th? Pretty please? Otherwise I might have to murder all my fellow passengers to deal with the frustration of having to wait to play Stellaris.
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