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[DeadlyVortex]

Yea, i agree with those who have said that once stores are open and selling it, it is just ...'silly' to not allow those of us who DL'ed it to play.

But whatever...i'll just do responsible things until then.....maybe...if i can focus enough..

[Brother Jayne]

6.8 years old?

Why, you spell quite well for such a young child!



*pats booroy on the head and gives him a sucker*

[Taritu]

I assume it's mostly because they don't want to mess with brick and mortar sales. It does kind of suck. About 10 minutes ago I got a message that DAO had finished downloading (I did the preload Sunday) so I was thinking "hey, maybe they unlocked!" No such luck. Plan is to stay up a bit longer, then sleep in so I can stay up late tomorrow playing...

[that guy with hair]

Steam better unlock at the stated time for Australians; I'm already hearing many reports of EB telling other Aussies it will be available for pickup today for some reason (perhaps broken street date or clueless retailers only looking at the US release date i.e. Nov 3rd rather than the 5th)

[Aapheus]

OK, I guess I can understand why they'd want to wait until they have people on hand for the launch, but what I don't understand is why the unlock should be any later than 9:00 a.m. PST.  Surely all their employees should be at work by then or shortly thereafter.  If it's 12:00 p.m. PST, that makes no sense, since they'll all probably be at lunch then. 

Then again, going by the timer, it should unlock by 1:00 p.m CST, not noon PST like people are saying.  I hope that's true, cuz then I can just take a late lunch and get about 30 minutes in before I have to go back to work. 

[lubetek]

Well Gamestop has the game down as SHIPPING on the 3rd. That usually means it won't be in stores till the 4th. If thats the case then STEAM and digital buyers will be playing a day in advance.


At Gamestop's website they have the hard copy as shipping on the 3rd and the digital download as releasing on the 3rd.

[lubetek]

Well Gamestop has the game down as SHIPPING on the 3rd. That usually means it won't be in stores till the 4th. If thats the case then STEAM and digital buyers will be playing a day in advance.


At Gamestop's website they have the hard copy as shipping on the 3rd and the digital download as releasing on the 3rd.

[lubetek]

dbl post

Modifié par lubetek, 03 novembre 2009 - 05:49 .

[cyanrabbit]

Lol, getting worse!! Steam just updated me again "preload finished"... yeah well it was finished yesterday, so what s that??



thus I go lurk again in the repository and what do I see (maybe I missed those before..) in steamapps/...



these little folks:

dragon age - origins bonus content.ncf

dragon age - origins deluxe cd key.ncf

dragon age - origins deluxe game cd key.ncf

dragon age - origins english.ncf

dragon age - origins preorder cd key.ncf

dragon age origins content.ncf



and no, you can not open them ;-)

[houstonjosh]

Well glad to see mods here delete anything that might be considered the truth (i.e. thread deletion) anyway, there are only 24 time zones... Wouldn't be hard to program something that looks at IP and does a check to see where they are coming from (which most websites do). Now this could be gotten around easily by using proxies or vpn. But at least people actually get the game they pay for on the day they pay for it without having to wait till the afternoon... Total BS!

[darn darwin]

Steam should do the right thing and unlock it now

[allothernamesweretaken]

Even us steam fans hate steams timeframes.

Games normally unlock around 12PM Valve time

No, not that valve time, silly.

[Habnor - God of Whine]

Steam is well aware of the countdown and milking all the funds they can out of that scam system.

With the L4D2 Demo countdown, they waited 30 minutes before midnite before removing the fact the demo is going to be delayed yet another 16 hours so they could milk even more pre-orders...



They been doing the same with all other releases, getting tons of last minute orders and scewing us managed and organized people. Anything on Steam is off my XMAS list. I dont play games (like that)

[Medet]

krabman wrote...

Why do I have the feeling I am not the only one checking steam now and again just in case...?

Definitely not the only one. I've been checking every 15-30 minutes, even though I know its not going to happen. I finished my preload right when it released, but earlier today I got a popup saying my DA:O download had completed. Which of course turned out to be nothing but some spiteful little gremlin in the system toying with me. Sadness.

[Rankith]

how is the preload thing a scam? lol

[CoS Sarah Jinstar]

allothernamesweretaken wrote...

Even us steam fans hate steams timeframes.

Games normally unlock around 12PM Valve time

No, not that valve time, silly.

I've never quite understood people's love of Valve or that filthy DRM encrusted app Steam to be honest. What I find even more humorous is when someone writes a long rant about DRM and how evil it is, then goes on to say "Thats why I use steam" which is about as DRM as you can get in the first place.

Following that Valve time line its no wonder it took them 11 years to get TF2 done and will prolly take them 11 years to get HL2 Episode 3 done. "Episodic content will take us less time to do!" Um sure it will Gabe, have another cheeseburger.

[allothernamesweretaken]

Habnor - God of Whine wrote...

Steam is well aware of the countdown and milking all the funds they can out of that scam system.
With the L4D2 Demo countdown, they waited 30 minutes before midnite before removing the fact the demo is going to be delayed yet another 16 hours so they could milk even more pre-orders...

They been doing the same with all other releases, getting tons of last minute orders and scewing us managed and organized people. Anything on Steam is off my XMAS list. I dont play games (like that)

Excuse me, what?

When it comes to preorders, they get the same amount of money if people buy it before, or after release, unless there's a pre-order sale going on. In that case they would want  to release the game sooner

Your tinfoil hat is silly, and illogical.

[End_Apocolypse]

Man it sucks, that ive payed for the game and have got to wait another 13 hours to play it, I believe valve would have the money to pay a dedicated work staff to unlock the game at 12:01. I just hope that in the future they would have this implemented.



My thoughts:)

[allothernamesweretaken]

CoS Sarah Jinstar wrote...



I've never quite understood people's love of Valve or that filthy DRM encrusted app Steam to be honest. What I find even more humorous is when someone writes a long rant about DRM and how evil it is, then goes on to say "Thats why I use steam" which is about as DRM as you can get in the first place.

 

We love Valve because they make good games.

We love steam, because D2D is even more DRM ridden, Gamersgate and Gamershell have rather limited selections, we don't have to worry about broken discs, the community features, and the fact that it's just convenient. In addition, the DRM's people normally rant about are proven to mess with your computer in ways it should not, or has limited activations. It also doesn't take up much more in system resources than a simple instant messenger, which it has built in, and can be used while playing your games to boot.

Aside from the odd (stupid)publisher deciding they want third party DRM in addition to Steam, and offline modes (rare) pants ****ting moments, steam's no worse than a disk check.


Overrall, it's a much, much better system than it was when it launched. It was god **** terrible then.

I don't get why people who don't like it feel the need to say so everytime it comes up. It's not like you see a someone denouncing D2D everytime it comes up in conversation.

Modifié par allothernamesweretaken, 03 novembre 2009 - 07:04 .

[CoS Sarah Jinstar]

allothernamesweretaken wrote...

CoS Sarah Jinstar wrote...



I've never quite understood people's love of Valve or that filthy DRM encrusted app Steam to be honest. What I find even more humorous is when someone writes a long rant about DRM and how evil it is, then goes on to say "Thats why I use steam" which is about as DRM as you can get in the first place.

 

We love Valve because they make good games.

We love steam, because D2D is even more DRM ridden, we don't have to worry about broken discs, the community features, and the fact that it's just convenient. In addition, the DRM's people normally rant about are proven to mess with your computer in ways it should not, or has limited activations. It also doesn't take up much more in system resources than a simple instant messenger, which it has built in, and can be used while playing your games to boot.

Aside from the odd (stupid)publisher deciding they want third party DRM in addition to Steam, and offline modes (rare) pants ****ting moments, steam's no worse than a disk check.


Overrall, it's a much, much better system than it was when it launched. It was god **** terrible then.

Can't say I noticed any DRM in the couple game's I've purchased from D2D, then again I'm one of those old fashioned, perfer to actually have the physical media type of people to begin with. Its not hard to put a game cd in a CD case to protect it honestly.

Having to rely on an outside the game aplication's servers to be up to play something I paid for also doesn't seem to be all that convienient to me but hey whatever floats your boat I guess. (And I realize Steam has an "offline" mode, though last I heard you had to practically jump through flaming hoops to get it to work in said mode)

Though I think the main reason that I dislike aps like steam is you're still paying full price for something you don't even get a physical copy of. I could have sworn one of the main "selling points" Gabe used to toss around was "Games will be cheaper!" mmmm hmm, right, certainly doesn't seem to be the case though.

I'm sure its far better now than at launch no doubt, still, I have zero desire to rely on it.

[Basileus777]

cyanrabbit wrote...

Lol, getting worse!! Steam just updated me again "preload finished"... yeah well it was finished yesterday, so what s that??

thus I go lurk again in the repository and what do I see (maybe I missed those before..) in steamapps/...

these little folks:
dragon age - origins bonus content.ncf
dragon age - origins deluxe cd key.ncf
dragon age - origins deluxe game cd key.ncf
dragon age - origins english.ncf
dragon age - origins preorder cd key.ncf
dragon age origins content.ncf

and no, you can not open them ;-)

Hmm. I don't have the preorder cd key file there even though I pre-ordered it and my account information confirms it.

[End_Apocolypse]

 I looked inside the steam folders, and if you look under DA:O you will see bonus, and everything seems to be already there....there is also the soundtrack and wallpapers(you can try to open them, but it says something like you cannot play select format MP3. Hahaha )

[Hazado22]

The steam purchase now says this in my personal history.



You now own Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins Bonus Content, Dragon Age: Origins Deluxe CD Key, Dragon Age: Origins Preorder CD Key.

[End_Apocolypse]

What is the difference between DA:O deluxe game cd key, and DA:O deluxe cd key( I know its the game part, but what makes it special)?

[astrallite]

We don't even know what we need to do to install Shale/Warden's Keep yet. Whether we will get a code or if it's included in the game. My guess is, since on the Steam description it says "download x and you will get..." we will get a code.



I hope to hell the code is ready when the game starts, I don't want to get an email code on the 4th after I've played 1/3 of the game already.