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  1. March 05, 2010, 01:02 PM #1
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    Default Eight Hour Steam download!

    I made my purchase of Empire: Total War today, and regretted it immediately afterward, when I found out that it would take eight hours to download. While I understand that it's a big game, and I know that I don't have the world's best internet connection, this seems a mite unreasonable. If you purchased ETW off of Steam, how long did it take you to download it?


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  2. March 05, 2010, 01:52 PM #2
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    I know what you mean my friend, when I bought it a couple of months ago the same thing happend. It started to install from the disc and installed about 8 Gb then it started to download off STEAM and it took all night until the next morning.

    Same thing happend with NTW I bought it and the disk didnt work so I had to download off STEAM and it took four or five hours.
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  3. March 05, 2010, 05:27 PM #3
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    Default Re: Eight Hour Steam download!

    Probably took me a similar amout of time (usual download from steam at ~350-400kb/s) and that's why I bought Napoleon on disc . But even that still took about half an hour to install.
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  4. March 05, 2010, 06:10 PM #4
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    Default Re: Eight Hour Steam download!

    Quote Originally Posted by HalfAssHorse View Post
    Probably took me a similar amout of time (usual download from steam at ~350-400kb/s) and that's why I bought Napoleon on disc . But even that still took about half an hour to install.

    Half an hour is nothing compared to eight hours of download. If only Steam had refunds...


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  5. March 05, 2010, 06:35 PM #5
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    Default Re: Eight Hour Steam download!

    12 hours for me

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  6. March 05, 2010, 08:55 PM #6
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    Default Re: Eight Hour Steam download!

    Disc > download anytime.
    The extra development time will allow us to finalize and polish Empire, making it the most accomplished and epic of the Total War series." said Kieran Brigden, Studio Communications Manager at The Creative Assembly. "There is a great deal of anticipation around Empire: Total War and we want to ensure that it is the benchmark for strategy games upon its release.
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  7. March 05, 2010, 09:19 PM #7
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    Default Re: Eight Hour Steam download!

    Quote Originally Posted by Abspara View Post
    Disc > download anytime.
    not if it has to be shipped. You can't get shipping in 8 hours. And I'm horrible with discs... I always lose them, it's terrible.
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  8. March 06, 2010, 10:05 AM #8
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    Default Re: Eight Hour Steam download!

    Quote Originally Posted by Abspara View Post
    Disc > download anytime.
    Win
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  9. March 06, 2010, 09:05 AM #9
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    6 hours

    be sure to back up the game afterwards so if it has to download anything it'll only be patches and not the whole game


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    Default Re: Eight Hour Steam download!

    Quote Originally Posted by Cornelius Plautus View Post
    I made my purchase of Empire: Total War today, and regretted it immediately afterward, when I found out that it would take eight hours to download. While I understand that it's a big game, and I know that I don't have the world's best internet connection, this seems a mite unreasonable. If you purchased ETW off of Steam, how long did it take you to download it?
    only 8 hours to download? it took me like 3 days

    I have a feeling my wireless internet connection might have been the cause... but i agree, disk>download. The disk part was done in like 10 minutes.
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  11. March 06, 2010, 08:49 PM #11
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    Default Re: Eight Hour Steam download!

    Quote Originally Posted by empr guy View Post
    only 8 hours to download? it took me like 3 days

    I have a feeling my wireless internet connection might have been the cause... but i agree, disk>download. The disk part was done in like 10 minutes.

    Three days!? Ouch!

    Ah, well. I ordered the disc off E-bay and hopefully it'll be here early this week.

    Will I be able to install it, even though I technically bought a copy off Steam?


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    Default Re: Eight Hour Steam download!

    Quote Originally Posted by Cornelius Plautus View Post
    Three days!? Ouch!

    Ah, well. I ordered the disc off E-bay and hopefully it'll be here early this week.

    Will I be able to install it, even though I technically bought a copy off Steam?
    Im pretty sure it only cares about the data files in your steam folder , So it should work. Just make sure to get it to validate the files and everything.
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    Default Re: Eight Hour Steam download!

    It took me like two weeks to download ETW (32Kb/s)
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    Default Re: Eight Hour Steam download!

    Quote Originally Posted by Rilder View Post
    It took me like two weeks to download ETW (32Kb/s)
    hahahahahhahaha. wow.
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  15. March 06, 2010, 11:12 PM #15
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    Default Re: Eight Hour Steam download!

    Quote Originally Posted by Rilder View Post
    It took me like two weeks to download ETW (32Kb/s)
    LOL

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  16. March 07, 2010, 11:50 PM #16
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    Default Re: Eight Hour Steam download!

    I guess I'm in the minority...

    I downloaded both Empire and Napoleon off of Steam at about 3.5 mb/s...so it didn't really take that long...

    Let me persuade you with my powerful logic skills.

    In light of the Total War series, a quote from the theologian whom I respect the most:

    The Heavenly City outshines Rome, beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness.
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