Bethesda’s sci-fi RPG can be pre-loaded nearly a month before its release. It’s out on September 6th for Xbox Series X/S and PC.
Pretty smart. They can just add patches during the last month if they need to fix some stuff before release.
Very early…
Maybe they are just thinking about those with a really bad internet connection, who will need the month to download the 125gb game.
Yea would work about right for people on 512Kbps connections
My biggest irritation with Steam downloading things isn’t that it’s slow, but that it uses many TCP connections simultaneously. There is no way to restrict how many connections are being used concurrently. This use of many connections slightly increases the throughput when there’s available bandwidth, but much-more-problematically, if one’s Internet connection is saturated, it tends to result in Steam slurping up all the available bandwidth and starving other things, since normally, if an Internet connection is saturated, bandwidth tends to roughly be apportioned with an even amount of throughput given to each TCP connection. Programs using many connections tend to starve other bandwidth consumers. Steam downloading is a noninteractive, background thing, so it is pretty much always preferable to me to have that back off if I want to have a video stream or something going on; if I could restrict Steam to using a single TCP connection, I would.
Y’all need time and space to get them patches delivered, too.
Wow, that’s insanely early.
I’m really excited to play this game in 3 - 6 months when all the bugs have been ironed out. Baldurs Gate and Armored Core will satisfy me till then.
I’ll wait at least a year to play it. That’s when the modding scene starts thriving.
