Petition for Midnight Release on Steam

[DoodieDoo]

It has to decrypt first. Thats why.

mhm

if you go to library > downloads, it will show that steam is "preallocating" the files

[MrRoboHD]

Hopefully this doesn't take too long.

Considering the game is 40GB+ It may take anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes

[dav_9]

Thanks, that makes sense. I have a 50-55 minute countdown. 10PM PST release /troll after all?

[TBM]

At this rate, I may as well have not preloaded.

[SC1211]

What if it just says "In Queue"?

[MrRoboHD]

What if it just says "In Queue"?

You have to go to your steam downloads tab, and click on the move to top of queue button.

http://gyazo.com/0e07342370a525ea1667c2f0dfb76112 It should look like this afterwards. 16 minutes isn't bad considering it would have taken 8+ hours to download had you not preloaded it.

[Brockman44]

What's this "unpacking" junk? 43 minutes? blah

[TBM]

ETA is 41 minutes for me.

[SC1211]

What if it just says "In Queue"?

You have to go to your steam downloads tab, and click on the move to top of queue button.

Hmm, I don't have any other things in the queue but I just checked my Steamapps folder and it looks like stuff is being created in my "downloading" folder right now. Think it's working?

[TBM]

^ Yes.

[zz21]

tell us what file types it has when its done.

[burnshroom]

They could have allowed the decryption junk BEFORE midnight!!!!

The waiting continues -- frustrating.

[Yugi123]

What if it just says "In Queue"?

You have to go to your steam downloads tab, and click on the move to top of queue button.

http://gyazo.com/0e07342370a525ea1667c2f0dfb76112 It should look like this afterwards. 16 minutes isn't bad considering it would have taken 8+ hours to download had you not preloaded it.

oh goodness, so the rest of us will have to wait 8+ hours to download the game?????? . yikes lol

[TBM]

38 min ETA. Fuck.

[SinDS]

49 minutes

[ColumbusBobby23]

What if it just says "In Queue"?

You have to go to your steam downloads tab, and click on the move to top of queue button.

http://gyazo.com/0e07342370a525ea1667c2f0dfb76112 It should look like this afterwards. 16 minutes isn't bad considering it would have taken 8+ hours to download had you not preloaded it.

oh goodness, so the rest of us will have to wait 8+ hours to download the game?????? . yikes lol

Depends on your internet connection.

[MrRoboHD]

What if it just says "In Queue"?

You have to go to your steam downloads tab, and click on the move to top of queue button.

http://gyazo.com/0e07342370a525ea1667c2f0dfb76112 It should look like this afterwards. 16 minutes isn't bad considering it would have taken 8+ hours to download had you not preloaded it.

oh goodness, so the rest of us will have to wait 8+ hours to download the game?????? . yikes lol

Depends on your internet connection.

Downloading at 1.5MB/s It took me around 8 hours, I just set it overnight however, so it may have taken less.

[basketballstar24]

4 more minutes for me...

[Yugi123]

Appreciate all of you keeping us updated. I know it must be hard waiting for things to decrypt but hopefully its all worth it

[TheGame8544]

This is absolutely retarded. You mean it couldn't have already done this updating BS when I had it downloading all day while I was at work?

Ridiculous...

[TheGame8544]

58 minutes for me on a ridiculously fast internet connection. I'm not understanding what's going on.

[benji]

They could have allowed the decryption junk BEFORE midnight!!!!

The waiting continues -- frustrating.

This is absolutely retarded. You mean it couldn't have already done this updating BS when I had it downloading all day while I was at work?

Ridiculous...

No, they couldn't, the unlock is basically automatic.

Steam's modern format compresses (most) everything to shrink your download sizes. Now it's basically extracting a 41GB .7z to the 50GB or whatever the full game is going to be.

The way around this would have been to make you download more and then just unpack the base files. Which is what games that are about 1/10th the size do.

You'd have to do all this even if you hadn't preloaded the game.

[basketballstar24]

Arghhh still unpacking...

WHHAHT 3 HOURS

[benji]

In other words, Lazy Leftos strikes again.

[MrRoboHD]

58 minutes for me on a ridiculously fast internet connection. I'm not understanding what's going on.

Basically, in a preload, Steam encrypts the files to prevent people from playing the game early. Once the release date of a game comes around, steam will then decrypt the files allowing those who preloaded the ability to play the game. This has nothing to do with internet connection as the files are already on your system, all Steam has to do is decrypt 40GB+ to allow you to play.