BeavermanA
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Haha epic fail. Amazing they canceled the preload. Imagine if Amazon had handed out keys at 12am est too. Probably a good deal of buyers bought there.
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It blows my mind how unprepared these companies are. Similar thing happaned a few weeks ago with the KBS beer release from Founder's. The server just got raped by the number of people trying to access it.
Why the hell can't it just be released at midnight?
Guess I'm staying up until 3 am. At least to make sure the download started. Then I'll crash.
Downloading now. Hard to tell what the actual dl rate is because it keeps changing 2-3.5 MB/s so far.
EDIT:
Slowed to less than 30 KB/s at 94% but it is saying total download is only 268.32 MB which cannot be right. Last 6% is taking forever.
bah. hate to say it, but i should have just ordered on origin. damn amazon.
It blows my mind how unprepared these companies are. Similar thing happaned a few weeks ago with the KBS beer release from Founder's. The server just got raped by the number of people trying to access it.
It's not that they're unprepared, it's that they don't want to spend the money on infrastructure for a single day. After the first couple days, the demand goes down and the infrastructure they have works fine. The sysadmins can try and justify spending the money all they want but the bean counters don't care. They just see it as a waste for a single day.
the second i got billed email, the game unlocked for me to download.
Still greyed out in Origin. Come on...
Many of these companies seem to be west coast bias! I say, these companies should stop thinking that California is the center of the universe, as even the majority of the USA doesn't live on the west coast. Just make it released based on midnight UTC.
er, yeah. sorry, long day. i was under the impression it was launching at 12am PST.. so 3am EST. that's what it says on amazon..
All of it is made/designed/thought up out here, so it is the center of the universe. Move out of the sticks.
I'm curious how this game will be received here. From the few articles I've read of people getting advanced copies, it seems like this game is very limited as far as size of cities. More so than Simcity 4. I hope it's not true....
This is frustrating. I played Tomb Raider for a bit to wait SimCity to be completely downloaded. When I got in, I have to wait 30 mins to try to join the server. Why do they have to make this game always internet on?
This is frustrating. I played Tomb Raider for a bit to wait SimCity to be completely downloaded. When I got in, I have to wait 30 mins to try to join the server. Why do they have to make this game always internet on?
Well, I bought the physical copy at Amazon. Will have to wait for shipping but I get $20 back. Will be playing on Thursday.
Same here. You can't pass up on $20 credit. Prime members get release day delivery though. So mine should be here in 10 hours or so.