Half-Life 2 preload commenceith

http://www.steampowered.com/marketing/hl2_preload/english.html

Release imminent.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: dwell
http://www.steampowered.com/marketing/hl2_preload/english.html

Release imminent.

That page has been up for a couple of days, but Steam won't actually let you preload it.

 

[SethK28]

cant login busy..........ebgames states nov as release

 

Originally posted by: DonVito

Originally posted by: dwell
http://www.steampowered.com/marketing/hl2_preload/english.html

Release imminent.

That page has been up for a couple of days, but Steam won't actually let you preload it.

Not true tonight. I am at 14% right now.

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/bbzzdd/preload.png

 

[ironcrotch]

My system just started the HL2 Pre-load. Whats the point of this anyway?

 

[kami]

What the heck is a pre-load?

 

[Vikaden]

Originally posted by: kami
What the heck is a pre-load?

Shall we say it's before the "release"

 

[Rent]

Originally posted by: kami
What the heck is a pre-load?

They send encrypted files to your machine. When the game comes out, you can choose to buy it and play it then or if you have a freebie voucher, just play it.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: Rent

Originally posted by: kami
What the heck is a pre-load?

They send encrypted files to your machine. When the game comes out, you can choose to buy it and play it then or if you have a freebie voucher, just play it.

When does it come out?

 

[silverpig]

Steam servers are too busy to handle any more preloads. Please try again in a few hours.

 

[Yossarian]

how long before the preload stuff is hacked and the game is free for all?

 

[Gurck]

They should do this via bittorrent. That's how World of Warcraft patches are going to be done apparently, makes sense. Not that I'm going to bother; I'd be surprised if HL2 is released in my lifetime.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Gurck
They should do this via bittorrent. That's how World of Warcraft patches are going to be done apparently, makes sense. Not that I'm going to bother; I'd be surprised if HL2 is released in my lifetime.

Apparently they hired Bram Cohen (bit torrent creator) to work on steam a while back.

 

[Rent]

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova

Originally posted by: Rent

Originally posted by: kami
What the heck is a pre-load?

They send encrypted files to your machine. When the game comes out, you can choose to buy it and play it then or if you have a freebie voucher, just play it.

When does it come out?

:Q Unknown :Q

 

[silverpig]

Well it's downloading for me... albeit slowly

1.4% done now.

 

[Rent]

Well, the preload is done. Now "You have a locked copy of Half-Life 2 on your computer"

:frown:

Comon Valve, unlock it :|

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: Rent
Well, the preload is done. Now "You have a locked copy of Half-Life 2 on your computer"

:frown:

Comon Valve, unlock it :|

SO what is the point exactly?

 

[silverpig]

At this present time the content servers are struggling a little but remember, there's no rush! Take it easy. Additionally, the cache we're downloading at the moment is called "base source shared materials.gcf" and it weighs in at a whopping 1.01GB.

 

[Rent]

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova

Originally posted by: Rent
Well, the preload is done. Now "You have a locked copy of Half-Life 2 on your computer"

:frown:

Comon Valve, unlock it :|

SO what is the point exactly?

Whenever Gabe feels like "releasing" it, I guess I get to play.

 

[klah]

I give it 72 hours before the content is cracked and the artwork is posted all over the internet

 

[tRaptor]

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova

Originally posted by: Rent
Well, the preload is done. Now "You have a locked copy of Half-Life 2 on your computer"

:frown:

Comon Valve, unlock it :|

SO what is the point exactly?

So the second its released you can play. And cause as we get closer to the launch more and more people will want to get it.


On a seide note, i think i read somehere what steam/valve has enough bandwidth to give HL2 to one person every second.

 

[aswedc]

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova

Originally posted by: Rent
Well, the preload is done. Now "You have a locked copy of Half-Life 2 on your computer"

:frown:

Comon Valve, unlock it :|

SO what is the point exactly?

The point is so you buy it from Steam rather than going to the store. Valve makes twice as much per copy this way.

 

[GTaudiophile]

So, people like me who have HL2 "keys" from ATI: what's in it for us?

 

[Rent]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
So, people like me who have HL2 "keys" from ATI: what's in it for us?

Go to the main steam window, hit "browse games" and the at the bottom of the screen there should be "Register a product I already own" and put in your HL2 CD-Key that came with your ATI card. You'll get access to CS:Source. The Preload should be available to everyone I think.

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: tRaptor

Originally posted by: UglyCasanova

Originally posted by: Rent
Well, the preload is done. Now "You have a locked copy of Half-Life 2 on your computer"

:frown:

Comon Valve, unlock it :|

SO what is the point exactly?

So the second its released you can play. And cause as we get closer to the launch more and more people will want to get it.


On a seide note, i think i read somehere what steam/valve has enough bandwidth to give HL2 to one person every second.

That's not that fast...
that's like one OC48... 3GB/s?