Preload via Steam? (North & South America Only)

[uberbad]

http://www.steampowered.com/v/index....me&AppId=4700&

Is anyone considering doing this? I plan on getting a hard copy but... playing at midnight, the 15th, would rock for us in the states.

what are yalls thoughts on this option? Is it any better than pre-ordering and having it shipped here on the 15th?

[Xennik]

Ugh...steam and M2TW :O

If you have the chance to get a hard copy, get a hard copy.

[haloband]

I'd rather get the game on the 13th from EB Games:

http://www.ebgames.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=646708

[awisler]

if it was coming out the 15th here in the usa, i would do it, ive ordered games before from steam-very fast/nice, but since eb told me i can pick up my copy tuesday and i get out of school early that day than definantly not preloading. why preload and end your social life as you know it when you can do all that but a day earlier?!?!?!?!?

[Stalins Ghost]

Holy crap! MTW2 on Steam? Damn fine idea. It shows quite nicely that CA are willing to work with one of the other most important developers around these days. I have to say this is another in a long line of very smart business decisions by CA. First they switch to Sega. They release a cheap, fun, mini-addon. They then firstly increase the emphasis on mod support while getting a respected community mod developer to inspect it. Over all its great to see CA change with the times, which was what I feared was going to begin to happen to them back when BI was released.

[AlfonsoVIII]

Well the game might be in on the 17th, Wal-Mart has a sign in the electronics department. anyways, always get a hard copy. Steam, always had to update that, to me worthless, but I might give it a try.

[WilliVonBill]

Well... at least I can pass the time reading through the MTW2 manual from the Steam site until I'm actually able to get the game here in the states.

[awisler]

Well... at least I can pass the time reading through the MTW2 manual from the Steam site until I'm actually able to get the game here in the states.

wow didnt even see that! nice find

i wouldnt have read the entire manual once i get the game because well- id be playing the game now i can find out all about m2tw before playing.

EDIT-under events and missions it says FACTION HEIRS CAN GIVE YOU MISSIONS TO KILL YOUR OWN KING SO HE CAN BECOME LEADER FASTER! could be very interesting

[junglewarior45]

dude thats gona be a disaster how many hours is 11 gigs gona take to download

[The Mongol]

Wow, I didn't expect that to happen. CA is indeed working with other big companies.

[Helarxe]

Man, that's a serious option to consider. *considers*

[DougyM]

11gb worth of downloading people...

and thats gonna happen every time you need to reinstall the game unless you want to keep the 11gb installer on your computer as well as the game.

Plus theres the whole... Valve are morons and dont deserve one penny of CA/Sega's money.

[LeoZ]

11GB, wow that's gonna take awhile on 180KBs

I prefer buying it from a retail store.

[edmont]

7GB to be precise.

[DougyM]

7GB to be precise.

8.76 when its on your hard drive.

[Tullaris]

downloading on steam is pretty quick...

And the advantage: you can play TW from any computer, no need for dvds

[edmont]

downloading on steam is pretty quick...

And the advantage: you can play TW from any computer, no need for dvds

But don't you have those terrible data collapses,or Steam is keeping your data?And if you change E-mail?I'm curious because I have Half-life2.

[alpaca]

a) Steam is way too expensive for my taste
b) The game is about 8 GB in size so it'll take a few hours even with a fast connection

[The Mongol]

a) Steam is way too expensive for my taste
b) The game is about 8 GB in size so it'll take a few hours even with a fast connection

News flash, Steam doesen't cost a dime.

[Zerophase]

I've already pre-ordered from EBgames. Hard copy, yes please.