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Reply # 657325 18-Jul-2012 00:43

Finally caved in and bought a Steam game however I don't know why I bothered. For some weird reason, I thought I could buy a game and play it the same night. I purchased Civilization V (not on daily deal but I wanted to play it tonight). 9 hours later it is still downloading and showing approx an hour left to go.

Currently, its coming down the pipes at 35kb/s. Sheesh!

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Reply # 657330 18-Jul-2012 01:14

Elpie: Finally caved in and bought a Steam game however I don't know why I bothered. For some weird reason, I thought I could buy a game and play it the same night. I purchased Civilization V (not on daily deal but I wanted to play it tonight). 9 hours later it is still downloading and showing approx an hour left to go.

Currently, its coming down the pipes at 35kb/s. Sheesh!

That's odd. Did you try changing your server in preferences? I use Snap's and have been downloading at an okay speed today.

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Reply # 657810 18-Jul-2012 16:47

GeoffisPure:
Elpie: Finally caved in and bought a Steam game however I don't know why I bothered. For some weird reason, I thought I could buy a game and play it the same night. I purchased Civilization V (not on daily deal but I wanted to play it tonight). 9 hours later it is still downloading and showing approx an hour left to go.

Currently, its coming down the pipes at 35kb/s. Sheesh!

That's odd. Did you try changing your server in preferences? I use Snap's and have been downloading at an okay speed today.

I was on the Orcon server so changed to Snap's server. Speed varied a lot and got me excited when it hit 300kb/s - then it went almost immediately down to 18kb/s :-( It stayed under 30kb/s for a very long time but I finally got Civ5 GOTY in 16 hours.

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Reply # 657894 18-Jul-2012 18:02

Elpie:
GeoffisPure:
Elpie: Finally caved in and bought a Steam game however I don't know why I bothered. For some weird reason, I thought I could buy a game and play it the same night. I purchased Civilization V (not on daily deal but I wanted to play it tonight). 9 hours later it is still downloading and showing approx an hour left to go.

Currently, its coming down the pipes at 35kb/s. Sheesh!

That's odd. Did you try changing your server in preferences? I use Snap's and have been downloading at an okay speed today.

I was on the Orcon server so changed to Snap's server. Speed varied a lot and got me excited when it hit 300kb/s - then it went almost immediately down to 18kb/s :-( It stayed under 30kb/s for a very long time but I finally got Civ5 GOTY in 16 hours.

While the sale has been on I've noticed their speeds have been a little on the slower side. But anything under 100kb/s is ridiculous. If you know anybody else with the Steam version of the game you can grab the files off them.

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Reply # 659332 20-Jul-2012 22:20

Compared to previous Steam sales this one is pretty average. The Christmas ones are always good.

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Reply # 659357 20-Jul-2012 23:17

Hobchild:
While the sale has been on I've noticed their speeds have been a little on the slower side. But anything under 100kb/s is ridiculous. If you know anybody else with the Steam version of the game you can grab the files off them.

I've bought a few larger ones this sale, and the majority of the time it's maxing out my connection at around 1.8MB/s. Snap's server is down I believe but I've been switching between Orcon and TCL. The few times it's hovered around 200-300kB/s I just switch the preferred server which restarts steam and the downloads are nice and fast again...

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Reply # 659647 21-Jul-2012 18:39

Elpie:
GeoffisPure:
Elpie: Finally caved in and bought a Steam game however I don't know why I bothered. For some weird reason, I thought I could buy a game and play it the same night. I purchased Civilization V (not on daily deal but I wanted to play it tonight). 9 hours later it is still downloading and showing approx an hour left to go.

Currently, its coming down the pipes at 35kb/s. Sheesh!

That's odd. Did you try changing your server in preferences? I use Snap's and have been downloading at an okay speed today.

I was on the Orcon server so changed to Snap's server. Speed varied a lot and got me excited when it hit 300kb/s - then it went almost immediately down to 18kb/s :-( It stayed under 30kb/s for a very long time but I finally got Civ5 GOTY in 16 hours.

That sucks - I'm with Orcon and have downloaded lots of Steam games at max speed for my connection (approx 1.2 mbytes / s). Also around 50-90% of the download ends up being zero rated for traffic which is good.

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Reply # 659758 22-Jul-2012 00:28

It just serves me right for weakening and buying something on Steam ;)

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Reply # 659760 22-Jul-2012 00:31

Just had my credit card temporarily declined by steam for buying too many games! Eeek. Hope they reinstate it before the last day of sale...

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Reply # 659764 22-Jul-2012 00:55

Elpie: It just serves me right for weakening and buying something on Steam ;)

It's funny because at first I've always read your comments and been like "you don't know what your missing" because for me Steam turned me into a PC gamer. Before that it was PS3 or nothing. But then I realised I was being an absolute hypocrite as I refuse to buy music from iTunes as I have to download iTunes onto my computer instead of just being able to download the music I want. I must ask do you use iTunes?

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Reply # 660154 22-Jul-2012 23:18

Elpie:

Currently, its coming down the pipes at 35kb/s. Sheesh!

If it helps I just purshased the DLC for Batman Arkham City and it came down at 1.5 MB/s (aka 12 Mbit) on Telecom.

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Reply # 660188 23-Jul-2012 07:12

Elpie what ISP are you with?

Information wants to be free. The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

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Reply # 660592 23-Jul-2012 19:27

Bought some stuff from the steam. Left 4 Dead pack, Alan Wake Franchise, Trine 2, Just Cause 2, AudioSurf and two other games I don't want to bother mentioning because I though they were bad. Luckily they were under 3 bucks.

So far, Trine 2 is my most favored game along with Just Cause 2.

One thing I absolutely hated about the sale was the huge amounts of repeats. While I hated it, I can acknowledge that it was absolutely great for people who missed out on a few items and wanted to purchase them.

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Reply # 662359 26-Jul-2012 13:31

I bought Iron Front Liberation 1944 for $29 US and based on the low scoring reviews kinda wish I didn't buy it now kinda average game compared to RO2 (Red Orchestra 2), Was downloading around 1.2mb/sec on Snap so can't complain about that but yeah bit of a waste of moolah. :( wanna get my moneys worth out of it before I remove it though.

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Reply # 662991 27-Jul-2012 15:41

Hobchild:
Elpie: It just serves me right for weakening and buying something on Steam ;)

It's funny because at first I've always read your comments and been like "you don't know what your missing" because for me Steam turned me into a PC gamer. Before that it was PS3 or nothing. But then I realised I was being an absolute hypocrite as I refuse to buy music from iTunes as I have to download iTunes onto my computer instead of just being able to download the music I want. I must ask do you use iTunes?

Yes, on a VM :-) But, even then, I don't allow Bonjour to install or allow any Apple anythings to run automatically. I have an iPad, what can I say? LOL

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