Just hope they send the client like a week before it goes live...

[Starlord]

For the People ( like myself) have not so good connection speed ( I see 300kb at max for me) with 7GB to Download.. needs a lot of time to get ready.

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

I believe this would be counter productive, and SE would lose a valuable load test.

EDIT: it also gives bored people a week to hack the DAT files.

[Starlord]

I believe this would be counter productive, and SE would lose a valuable load test.

Or they would lose a lot of valuable testing time waiting for people with slow connection speeds to download the game. If they release the client early, everyone will still download it all at once I'm very sure of this. It won't make much difference to do it now, or to do it then. What difference would it make to do it on Feb. 7th than on Feb.14th (guess Beta Launch). People will still Download it all at once.

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

Or they would lose a lot of valuable testing time waiting for people with slow connection speeds to download the game. If they release the client early, everyone will still download it all at once I'm very sure of this. It won't make much difference to do it now, or to do it then. What difference would it make to do it on Feb. 7th than on Feb.14th (guess Beta Launch). People will still Download it all at once.

I completely disagree.
With a week to get the client the rush to have it now will be lost.
Even those with slower connections will be part of the initial rush to get it.

[Starlord]

I completely disagree.
With a week to get the client the rush to have it now will be lost.
Even those with slower connections will be part of the initial rush to get it.

That's fine that you do disagree and that you don't want it to come out a bit early so people can be ready for the test. But I totally disagree to let people wait 1-3days ( depending on connection) to download 7GB of Data on Beta Launch.

[rina_inverse]

interesting point, I also have a limited connection

How does SE handle this in the previous beta?

[Wilksha]

I'm sure the client will be available beforehand, but I can also almost guarantee that on release the client will get an update anyways.

[Wolfie]

I agree with this, but 300 kB? Are you from 1996?

[Starlord]

I agree with this, but 300 kB? Are you from 1996?

When you have 4 people in the house eating your connection speed, Yes I must be @.@

[Sartori]

I agree with this, but 300 kB? Are you from 1996?

Have you ever heard of the word rural, look it up sometime, maybe get out of the city, look around a little, you'd be surprised...

Not everybody can have a 10mb dl at their beckoned call...