yes, another top 10 list. This is more for me really, looking forward to a lot of stuff at the mo

Coming Soon
Fallout 3, Dead Space, GTA IV, Left 4 Dead, HL2 : Ep3, Mirror's Edge

Here already
FarCry 2, Stalker : Clear Sky

A Long Way Off
Deus Ex 3, DNF, Rage, Borderlands, Fable 2 (on PC), Operation Flashpoint 2

Tags: games

No, it's not the review score I'm giving it. I haven't even played the damn game yet.

I bought it on steam 5 days ago to avoid the SecureRom bullshit (and added paddy tax) that comes with the boxed version.

It's currently trundling along at 10.5 KB/s, at around 74%, up from 68% yesterday.

I've been downloading it for 5 fucking days.

I've blogged in the past about how convenient steam is, about how it brings something to the table that piracy can't, and encourages people to buy games rather than pirate them. Now, I'm beginning to question my beliefs. I would have had the pirate version (assuming there is one, and I'm SURE there is) downloaded about 6 times by now. But here I am still waiting for my legitimate version to come down the tubes.

I have a 2mb connection which runs great for everything else. I've tried all the tricks – firewall rules, deleting the clientregistry.blob, downloading that MS TCP tool and deleting TCP connections – it never goes above 17 KB/s.

This is madness. MADNESS! In these days of bit-torrent, how come they can't build a distributed system for downloading this stuff? It should be easy! I can't be the only person in ireland download Far Cry 2 over steam. Can't we all just download a different piece each and get them off each other? Can't we then authenticate those pieces with a central server?

Of course, between work and moving house and all, I wouldn't have time to play it even if I did have it downloaded, but its the thought that counts.

Tags: games