Where can I download the installer?

PugPug

It's ridiculous how difficult it is to find on this site. I actually don't think there's any way to find it if you no longer have the email telling you the link.

PugPug

Found it in a news entry on the news page, which you reach by clicking for information on Neera on the home page. Makes perfect sense.

http://www.baldursgate.com/news_2012nov28.en.html

TJ_Hooker

@PugPug all you do is go to Beamdog's page and click on Baldur's Gate (it'll be link at the top of the page). From there, if you're signed in (and have purchased it), there's another pretty visible link saying "Install Now". It's really not too hard.

Troodon80

Go to this page and hit "Install Now," as @TJ_Hooker mentioned (best method). Alternatively, go to the original developers post about pre-loading which links to the same installer.

There are a number of ways to get to the purchase page. Not least of which is by simply going to the main Baldur's Gate homepage and clicking the link that looks like this near the bottom of the page:

Windows
Buy now!

Which then takes you to the purchase page and also to the button that says Install Now, right under the button that says Buy now for $19.99. You might need to be logged in order to actually download it (I have never tried going to the page without being signed-in since the release).

Jalily

@Troodon80, I liked your post because you made me think "Windows Buy now!" was part of the picture.

Troodon80

@Jalily, I was debating whether or not to take a screenshot and make a picture to link, or to take five minutes and rearrange the table on the main page and use DIVs and styles. I settled on styles.

Also (even more off-topic), there are some humorous comments in the HTML. Examples: <!-- please send help, trapped in a baldur's gate factory. keldorn keeps lecturing me :( -->. There's also the comment right above the table I was copying from: <!-- IT'S A TABLE. DEAL w/ IT.-->, clearly there was some objection to using a table to display the platforms.

Jalily

I found those when I went looking for Phillip Daigle's easter eggs. :P

PugPug

@Troodon80 @TJ_Hooker

Logging in on the purchase page to find the installer is not intuitive. I visited that page many times, but it didn't occur to me to log in.

Troodon80

@PugPug, my assumption for that would be that they want to keep downloads mainly to people who have purchased the game (in which case, you probably would have read the information in the dev posts regarding the download procedure I linked). I would agree that a disabled button saying "Install Now" which, when clicked, brings you to a log-in page and then redirects back to the purchase page with a now-enabled Install Now button would be handy.

Or, even easier, right above or below the "Please note: Intel Integrated Graphics are not currently supported" line, they could put "You need to be logged in to download this game." Then people would know to log in.

I suppose there is a lot that is assumed, but I can't say I've been affected since I followed the link to pre-load.

@Aosaw (I honestly have no idea who to tag in this case), do you think there's any chance of getting a short message on the purchase page regarding logging in to download? It might make it easier for people in the future.

PugPug

I actually didn't even notice the option to log in. The very top of a page has a way of being invisible, you know? We don't expect pages to change after logging in, only for certain functions to be enabled. On any forum, the button to create a thread is always there, though clicking it prompts you to register or log in.

Anyway, the installer is really only a downloader weighing in at 2.4 MB, so I see no reason not to let everyone download it hassle-free, and the application itself can direct people to the purchase page, if necessary.