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

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

They will release beta the exact way alpha was.

[Starlord]

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

Yeah and even when they have all that information, what good would it do them if there is an NDA in place? It doesn't take long to dat mine anyhow. Either way you put it they can't release zero info without SE consent. It won't do them any good to get themselves banned.

[reefo]

I live out in the country and we can only get dsl here. 300 kb/s is what I download at with my supposedly 3mb dsl. So I'm right there with ya buddy.

[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.

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

It's not a matter of letting people wait.
The massive load the servers will be hit with 10 seconds after the e-mails go out is.
That test is almost more important that the whole of phase 1.
I'm betting that less that an hour after the patcher goes live, it bogs down and even those with 100 meg connections get less than 100k.

Equality achieved!

[SinisterJoint]

considering its all p2p (its still p2p right??) we will all feel the brunt of the massive wave of people trying to download it

[Meatdawg]

No need

Get it while your at work or overnight

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

I don't believe it's p2p now.

[JillyBean]

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.

Just hope the Benchmark and Beta DL are available several days, if not a week or so, before start of Beta, so everyone is not trying to DL at the same time. Then again, that would be a good test.

I agree. I mentioned this in another thread yesterday (and was promptly misunderstood, I think...by at least Elexia). Then I was torn between being selfish and wanting to be completely ready when Beta goes live, and what a valuable test it could provide if everyone was downloading at the same time. I disagree that everyone will DL at the same time if it's available a week in advance - people might try, but they will wait til later if there is congestion (knowing they can't play anyway). Different time zones will also play a part.

I recently upgraded to RR Lightning, but for you Starlord, and others with limited connection speeds, I do hope they get it out early. Doesn't matter tho, they're gunna do what they're gunna do! I don't know how Alpha was handled in the first wave. Was the Alpha client available to DL prior to going live?