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I would imagine their activation servers will go into meltdown (imagine HL2 and/or when Steam very first came out but much worse)

You think that many people will have pre-ordered spore with EA Downloader?
I would've thought HL2 would've be worse, but I might be wrong.

Grimmie wrote:You think that many people will have pre-ordered spore with EA Downloader?
I would've thought HL2 would've be worse, but I might be wrong.

Difference is, Valve are pretty fucking good at what they do, just got overwhelmed by demand on the first major steam release.

EA, well, are EA.

Grimmie wrote:You think that many people will have pre-ordered spore with EA Downloader?
I would've thought HL2 would've be worse, but I might be wrong.

I reckon you'd be surprised. The price is in Euros unless you look really hard (on the websites at least), and a lot of people will fall for getting their money back from the Creature Creator.

This is bullshit. UK version costs 40 pounds, US version costs 50 dollars. And pounds are worth twice as much as dollars. And I may not buy the US version.

Baliame wrote:This is bullshit. UK version costs 40 pounds, US version costs 50 dollars. And pounds are worth twice as much as dollars. And I may not buy the US version.

The standard version costs under £30 on all the shops I looked at.

The only MASSIVE EXPENSIVE version is Game's Galactic Edition, which has some extra books and DVDs with it.

Play: £29.99
http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/1102154 ... oduct.html

Game: £29.99
http://www.game.co.uk/PC/Strategy/Simul ... E/?s=spore

HMV: £29.99
http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDet ... sku=548354

Amazon: £27.98
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Electronic-Arts ... 000FN7K2S/

EA: £39.99
http://eastore.ea.com/store/eaemea/en_G ... m.14159800

EDIT: That's a jab at EA, not a correction at Grimmie.

Noone ships to Hungary, because we're on posting blacklist.

And well I want a DDL solution, so I just fell for fucking EA and bought it.

Grimmie wrote:The only MASSIVE EXPENSIVE version is Game's Galactic Edition, which has some extra books and DVDs with it.

I have both versions on pre-order from Game, just in case im feeling stupidly flush on Friday.

I've preloaded it from EA, 3.8G, took about 50 minutes, says release is in 6 hours, no sign of any download issues so far.

FatherJack wrote:I've preloaded it from EA, 3.8G, took about 50 minutes, says release is in 6 hours, no sign of any download issues so far.

Pfffft. That would be about 12 hours for me.