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Has anyone tried the online download purchase?

magicalstevemagicalsteve Member Posts: 116
in Vanguard: Saga of Heroes

I'm considering this; because EB sell it off the shelves for AU$70, SOE offers it for AU$53 online.

Here's the problem; when I downloaded the EQ2 trial it installed the small patcher and then downloaded the whole game via the patcher. This took 3-4 overnight download sessions. (Probably due to my location; Australia)

 

And VG is much, much bigger than EQ2 from what I hear, so if it's the same process it would probably take up my entire 30-day free period!

 

 

Thoughts?

Comments

  • NimbletoeNimbletoe Member Posts: 15

    I do not recommend buying the online download if you dont have a very very fast connection. Myself I have a 16MB connection and used well above 24 hours downloading the entire thing. After that came 4-5 hours patching.

    You can imagine this on a slow connection. It would take you many days to download and patch this monster

  • magicalstevemagicalsteve Member Posts: 116

    Well I'm on 3Mbit so.... I think I'll take your advice. :)

     

    To the shops I go.

  • Publish6246Publish6246 Member Posts: 346

    I bought it from D2D and the file was about 6GB so only took me about a hour to download.

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  • FischerBlackFischerBlack Member Posts: 573

    Once you've got the game up and running, you should consider jumping on the Seradon server, unofficial Australian server. Theres plenty of us Aussies around and a couple of good quality Aussie raiding guilds that are active and full of good folks.

    And yeh, save yourself the headache, buy the discs

     

  • magicalstevemagicalsteve Member Posts: 116

    Seradon server, gotcha, thanks mate.

  • spikenogspikenog Member Posts: 283

    Got mine from D2D as well...no issues here.  With the download and then the patching it was done in about 2.5 hours.

  • NimbletoeNimbletoe Member Posts: 15

    So you downloaded the 20 Gigabytes AND the patch in 2.5 hours......... What internet connection do you have or are you on the same Local Area Network as the servers maybe...

  • broemanbroeman Member UncommonPosts: 25

    I remember when downloading the beta at fileplanet a year ago, the 18GB was compressed to several files, which together was about 6GB. I am guessing that you still download the same file(s) at D2D or others.

    even 20GB in 2.5 hours is pretty ok ... around 3MBit/s? (don't think you patch 12GB, but it is much though)

  • NimbletoeNimbletoe Member Posts: 15

    Ok didnt know about the Fileplanet download. What I was thinking about was the Game downloader itself, which is a death trap. You will die of old age using it!

  • broemanbroeman Member UncommonPosts: 25

    yeah, that's for sure ... some days it goes very smoothly and other days it takes for ever, and you have to cancel and do it over again ... I hope the new station launcher helps (talking of which, don't use the beta for Vanguard, it doesn't seem to be in sync, and you cannot start the game)

  • Gules_AspenGules_Aspen Member Posts: 273

    Or there's this way- I imagine it's the same client download as D2D. Cheaper, though.

     

    http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product_id=d001079

    Bite me, Turbine.

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