11.18
Tried to install my newly purchased Modern Warfare 2 this evening. Started up steam and registered the product (as Modern Warfare 2 requires Steam to run) and began downloading. For some reason it refused to download any faster than around 200kb/sec, which I found very annoying since the entire game is around 11gb large. This was going to take forever, so I cancel the download and pop the first DVD in. It kindly starts the installation and the installation is handled through steam but it takes the files directly from the disc instead. Handy! Or so I thought…
After installing the game I try to start it, and it starts to update the game, at 0%. In 200kb/sec. !?!?!?!?
I restart steam again and it still wants to install MW2 from the start, through downloading. I’m confused at this point, so I go into the Steam folder and look for the MW2 folder that I should’ve just installed. And there it is! Just as big as it should be, just sitting there.
At this point I’m thinking that something must’ve gone terribly wrong, so I reinstall the entire Steam application and then the game once more. SURPRISE! Same problem still!
I also noticed that there is 2 DVD’s in the box. What the hell is that all about? What is the second disc for?
At any rate, at this moment I’m installing MW2 through downloading it off of Steam, and it is sloooooooow. Will be done sometime tomorrow I think. Mind that if I start some other random download of any sort outside of Steam, it goes at the speed of over 1mb/sec.
I wasn’t really keen on Steam before this, but as of today I am a pure Steam-opponent. Digital distribution can fuck off! Give me a box that proves that I bought the game and let me use the discs to install it. It will ALWAYS be quicker than download it, and it will ALWAYS be more fail-safe.
Also, I wonder what happens if Steam were to close down? I guess all of our game licenses goes bye-bye. I’m not buying a game through digital distribution anytime soon, that’s for fucken sure.