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Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Apr-10-2008 23:59:

you know what fvcks me off?

digital distributors with country restrictions.

I never download pirate games, but im fucking tempted because some games arent available to buy in Australia from online distributors.

Asides from direct2drive.com, anyone know of any other legal distributing sites?

Posted by CONNERMAN2000 on Apr-11-2008 02:19:

www.fileplanet.com

At least, I think. I haven't visited that site in a long time, and honestly you might need to subscribe to it in order to use it.

Edit - I'm an idiot, they are the same thing as D2D.

Another Edit - Do you have Steam?

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Apr-11-2008 02:21:

i dont have steam, but i wasn't aware their selection of titles was very wide?

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Apr-11-2008 02:27:

quote:
Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
i dont have steam, but i wasn't aware their selection of titles was very wide?

well, i was wrong. they have plenty. cool.

is there no region validation?

Posted by CONNERMAN2000 on Apr-11-2008 02:29:

quote:
Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
well, i was wrong. they have plenty. cool.

is there no region validation?

Steam is growing ridiculously fast, about a year ago it only had about a 1/5 of what it has now. Now, every independent and big-name developer want a piece of the digital distribution pie. Microsoft has even predicted CD (and all hard copy storage items) to be obsolete in the next few years.

As for regional validation, ya got me on that one. I'm betting they'll have something about that on their website, so check it out.

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Apr-11-2008 11:11:

so, almost finished DLing vampire: the masquerade - bloodlines, but this whole "having to load steam to play the game" pisses me off.

oooh, 97% done, almost time to start biting people.

Posted by Fledz on Apr-11-2008 12:09:

You do know that with Steam you can start playing the game when it's like 5% downloaded right?

It's a cool feature of Steam that lets you play pretty much straight away

Posted by Ghost Raver on Apr-11-2008 12:10:

quote:
Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
so, almost finished DLing vampire: the masquerade - bloodlines

Great game this one. I might even consider finding it somewhere and play it again now

Posted by Zild on Apr-11-2008 14:28:

quote:
Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
so, almost finished DLing vampire: the masquerade - bloodlines, but this whole "having to load steam to play the game" pisses me off.

oooh, 97% done, almost time to start biting people.

ohhh nice game!

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Apr-11-2008 16:00:

quote:
Originally posted by Fledz
You do know that with Steam you can start playing the game when it's like 5% downloaded right?

It's a cool feature of Steam that lets you play pretty much straight away

no, i didnt know that, but i needed to do some (unofficial) patching and hacking anyway.

how on earth can that work?

Posted by Moongoose on Apr-11-2008 17:20:

Bloodlines was a good game, but my god was it full of bugs. Tons of patches and a fast computer (when it first came out my friend and i were doing maths problem while the levels were loading...and since it loaded a level every five minutes we did more maths than actually played the game)

Posted by cmay119 on Apr-11-2008 18:08:

quote:
Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
no, i didnt know that, but i needed to do some (unofficial) patching and hacking anyway.

how on earth can that work?

I would assume that it downloads the game packets in the correct order (I.E. start of the game to the end of the game).

So you could start playing immediately with what you've downloaded thus far, just got to make sure you don't play too fast, or you'll catch up to the download.

Something I'm not really interested in. I'm patient enough to wait until the game has completely downloaded before I start fraggin'.

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Apr-12-2008 02:06:

quote:
Originally posted by Moongoose
Bloodlines was a good game, but my god was it full of bugs. Tons of patches and a fast computer (when it first came out my friend and i were doing maths problem while the levels were loading...and since it loaded a level every five minutes we did more maths than actually played the game)

yeah, that's why i installed an unofficial patch after it downloaded. the years have been kind though, map loading is ninja fast now.

quote:
Originally posted by cmay119
I would assume that it downloads the game packets in the correct order (I.E. start of the game to the end of the game).

So you could start playing immediately with what you've downloaded thus far, just got to make sure you don't play too fast, or you'll catch up to the download.

yeah, i assume youre right but i still dont understand how that could ever work.