Pre-load failure. Thanks Beamdog!

cryocore

Any reason why the preload wasn't the full game but now requires and additional 1gb dl.
How are the servers holding up because the dl speed here in New Zealand is utter garbage. What should be line speed is currently 102kb/s. Well done good to see you're providing excellent support for game owners.

ajwz

Is there a prize for the first forum complaint about bg2:ee?
Because I think we have a winner

cryocore

I'm sure the game will be fine. When I eventually get to play it.

TrentOster

We didn't upload the data that was in flux. We've been putting some hard work in for the last while and we decided to keep files that were potentially going to change out of the pre-load.

-Trent

Mathsorcerer

They were quite clear that pre-load wasn't going to be everything. What more did you want?

Elendar

Mathsorcerer said:

They were quite clear that pre-load wasn't going to be everything. What more did you want?

Cheesecake.

cryocore

I would have liked to know that beforehand. I took a half day so I could jump on this, and well that turned out to be a waste of time. Thanks again.

I expected a bit of a DL but not this much.

Communication. It helps

cryocore

Oh YAY! It getting even slower now. Jesus get your act together.

Elendar

cryocore said:

Oh YAY! It getting even slower now. Jesus get your act together.

Thats what you get for downloading it at the same time as me!

laptopman666

cryocore said:

Oh YAY! It getting even slower now. Jesus get your act together.

jeez sounds like someone has nothing better to do than complain about their bad connection. i preloaded mine no problems whatsoever

GypsySocks

My game isn't even showing up anymore. I had it preloaded , and now the game is gone from my list. Why???

Fredjo

cryocore said:

I would have liked to know that beforehand. I took a half day so I could jump on this, and well that turned out to be a waste of time. Thanks again.

I expected a bit of a DL but not this much.

Communication. It helps

If you're a child, I'm sincerely sorry that you feel that way.

If you're a man, it'd be best for you to not behave like a child.

The information about pre-loading was available all over these forums, not sure what is there to complain about.

Mornmagor

Saying that, you'll hear my complaints VERY soon.

Oh wait, i already whined about sprites.

Oh well, /walks away.

Rastignac

Corvino

Even at a mere 100kb/s you'll probably get it about as quick as had you had to travel a store to pick up a physicical copy of something.

I understand the frustration (why do you think I'm on the forum and not playing?), but as @Elendar says there are a lot of folks trying to get hold of it at the same second.

FinneousPJ

I can't even get the client up, it dies saying "Please wait..."

Wonderboy2402

Well we all preloaded the 1.6 gb. Now there is another 1.0 gb. So get downloading folks. Or don't and give the rest of us the bandwidth.

Mortianna

Talk about an obnoxious sense of entitlement. Yes, you may have to actually delay gratification once in your life and wait an hour before you can play a game.

elminster

Lets all remember forum rule #4 - Respect Each Other.

cryocore

Except now it cant connect at all.
Also entitlement isnt the case here. I paid for something that was advertised as being available at a certain time and isnt. That's isnt entitlement.
Guess that'll teach me for pre-ordering now wont it

Fredjo

:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Troodon80

At an average of about 400KB/s, mine is almost done. I guess I'm hogging the doorway.

Edit: annnnd done:

Arthain

I better get my jar of tears out and add cryocore's too it. I had packed it away after giving up WoW, time to dust it off and bring it out.

So PLEASE cry some more cryocore, my jar isn't quite full yet.

Heindrich

Ok... so I planned to play BG 2 EE exactly 34mins ago, but my download speed has now crashed to under 10 KB/s.

So guess what? I'm probably gonna watch a movie, play a bit BG 2 Vanilla and play BG 2 EE tomorrow.

Radical, innit?

mch202

cryocore said:

Except now it cant connect at all.
Also entitlement isnt the case here. I paid for something that was advertised as being available at a certain time and isnt. That's isnt entitlement.
Guess that'll teach me for pre-ordering now wont it

Are you serious??! "being available at a certain time and isnt"... It is available,but what did you expect? that a copy will be delivered to you by a private jet? you lack some patience, It sounds like you are the only one on the planet that is waiting the download to finish, guess what.. you are not.

Eudaemonium

Is there an enable P2P option on the Mac downloader? I can't see it anywhere… =/ It might make the slow crawl better...

Spungi

Wauw ... This guy reminds me of those people that rage that servers are laggy, and that their may be bugs when a new World of Warcraft Expansion releases... Go for a walk, take a shower ... Socialise with some friends... Whatever. Jesus, it's just a fucking game, get over it you whiny twat!

Arthain

And actually it IS available at the time advertised. Just like it takes some time to walk/drive/bike home from the store, it takes some time for the game to walk down the internet pipes to your computer. It's AVAILABLE at the right time, they never said you'd be PLAYING it the moment it went live.

elminster

Man back in the day I remember going to EB games and being SO mad if I had travelled so far and but a PC game was sold out. How times change

SapphireIce101

Nevermind. My reading comprehension failed there.

cryocore

Im in New Zealand and its the 15th here has been for almost 14 hours.
I had no expectation to play at midnight here, but assumed someone at BD had half a brain to realise that when it releases there will be heavy bandwidth and to actually preload the vast majority of the game, but no we get crap dls and those of us not in the US get even crappier speeds becuase hey f**k anyone not an American huh.