Grimrock

Is there a possibility for a LoG pre-download ? It would be fantastic to play right away the moment it goes public.

Being a single player game, and all the data files will be on the pc, how would downloading it early keep people from playing it early? I guess steam can maybe disable it, but the game has a standalone download and it only uses steam if you want to get achievements. I for one have no plan to register with steam unless I find there is really something useful on steam.

Now they could do what my baseball sim game does where they release it 3 days before the game goes public to people that preorder....If any of the devs are taking hints

I suppose it would be technically possible to pre-load stuff encrypted like steam preloads work, or simply don't preload the executable, just all the data...

But doing either is a huge hassle, and the game is 'only' one gigabyte or so..

The servers are going to hurt on the 11th nevertheless.

I'm planning on playing the steam version assuming it's available at the same time as the stand alone version. Steam do often allow pre-download so fingers crossed.

Daniel.

Darklord wrote:I'm planning on playing the steam version assuming it's available at the same time as the stand alone version. Steam do often allow pre-download so fingers crossed.

Often? In my experience, steam has only done preloads for some very, very high profile games, and not always even then.

Ah I'll amend that to sometimes then. Every game I've been in a rush to play has been pre-downloadable anyhow

Daniel.

In my experience the decrypting of the game takes forever. I'd rather download a gig than wait for decrypting on Steam. (Portal 2 launch comes to mind... that took ages)

I was sort of counting on a preload from steam. that ain't gonna happen? *tears well up*

Radioman970 wrote:I was sort of counting on a preload from steam. that ain't gonna happen? *tears well up*

I'm not saying it won't happen - I have no knowledge of whether this is planned or not - but I don't think it'll be worth the hassle.

It has to be set up by Valve somehow, the server bandwidth requirements are probably nowhere near (as a random example) hl2ep3, the decryption takes ages (like someone mentioned), sometimes preloads go wrong and you end up having to re-download the whole thing anyway, and so on.

If the game is about a gig it won't take that long anyway. Funny thing, I'm on vacation starting on the weekend after release. I don't want ANY problems with getting this sucker!