As the name of the thread suggest, i acquired this game long time ago. I really felt sure about my purchase, so i chose the beautiful "BARON TIER PHYSICAL (Special PC Edition) ". I really wanted to have a physical copy of the game. That was the first (and still the only) time that i spent more than the minimum cost to buy a game, due to my poor finances.
As i already said, I really wanted the physical copy of this game for two type of reasons:
The first was that i really wanted to put this inspiring and beautifull game into my room, i wanted the physical proof that i bought this game. That is, for collectionism.
The second reason was practycal. You see, in my town internet is very slow, my download speed is around 1.8 Mbit/sec and my upload is around 0.2 Mbit/sec. I choosed the physical copy cause i knew that if i would have bought the digital one, i would have waited at least a week to download the entire game, and you know, a guy that buy the game 2 years before surelly want to play the game the day one, or day two at last. With the dvd i would have installed it in an hour and then i would have started to play it, quite easy right?
In addition i bought the dvd cause i knew that if i would have bought the digital copy, this would have been connected to steam (or something like that) and would have been worked only in online status. Not to mention the rdm fact. I didn’t want to connect my game to the steam account: “a only single player game can work without steam”, i thought.
Today i’m here, crying as the cryengine cryes with a AMD HD GPU, cause i still cant play the game.
The game arrived one day earlier the day one. But…
The first thing that i noticed, was that i needed to bind the game with steam, and it was obligatorius. So i found out that i needed to be online to play this game and that i received a key, like a normal digital copy, to play it.
The second thing that i understood, the worst one, was that the “day one patch” fucked totally up my plans. The patch wasn’t clearly in the dvds, but i tried nonetheless to install the game by dvd.
It worked… at first. The “transfering” was very slow, it floated up and down continuosly. I read that is a steam problem with dvd games trasnfer through steam. Only 100/200 Mbyte/sec of download. Noth bothering, still better than my download speed.
After 4gB of transfer, i changed all four dvd and steam told me “the transfer is complete” and than it started the download of the 27 GB left.
I was expecting that, due to the patch. I was so sad. the download told me “more than 2 days to be completed”. Ok, i said, fuck everyone and everything: i won’t use internet for these two days and complete this ethernal (ethernal only for my connection) download. The next day i watched steam and it told me “1 day left” with 17 GByte downloaded… Only one other day, i thought…
Yeah i thought. The same evening i went to watch again and… the download magically restarted and it was at 2GB/31GB, with more than “2 days left”. I love my luck, i love my internet connection, i love my country. I also tryed to exit from steam and opening it again, hoping that it would have “checked” again the downloading folder and found the lost downloaded files (i watched the downloading KC:D folder and it occupied 39GB. Nothing worked, worse, when i restarted steam, the download restarted again from zero. ZERO. Not even those 2 GB were spared.
Maybe it happened for the patch, maybe it happened for a steam problem when it changed between dvd and internet download, maybe else. I searched for a solution on the steam threads, i found some similiar problems, but no fix for it, the data was lost and so i started the download again.
Now i’m here, with my new download at 12 GB after a entire new day of pain, waiting to see the light at the end of the tunnel, hoping that steam won’t restart again the download at the last GB left.
I blame anyone for my connection (except my country), i can live with low dl/ul speed; but someone please tell me, why making a totally useless physical copy of the game? What’s the deal in a old DVD version of the game at day one? What’s the deal if you give me the steam code anyway and there is no other way to play it?
The game is still beautiful, i’m sure, but isn’t this a bad marketing choice? i spent more money for nothing, it is right? Only for a useless overwritten dvd, that you could easily have sent me empty, cause it was the same result?
I’m not angry… i’m only disapointed with myself and my hope in a “old style” dvd game, that could have been played without all of these problems. Next time, please listen to my suggestion, or you pubblish the complete game in the dvd, or don’t even sell the physical copy.
Thank you for your time,
a humanity-confident normal italian guy,
Erunir.