What happened to the Preload?

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ok its 9:30 PM pacific, which is also valves time so u non pacificers posting your time and saying what happened need to set your times straight if your not on valve time dont post any of your time, convert and then post.

CSS yesterday loaded at 6:30, looks like the time when vavle closed for the day.

Still no HL2, its almost 2:30 hours untill 12am the 18th.

so what does this mean?

This might be the first official lie that valve has told whre as before it was speculation dates not coming though, now its an official confirmed date and it didnt pre load. why am i not suprised it might not preload today?

anyway, i was wondering yor thoughts and if u have preloaded yet.

p.s. dont post any of that gay altered pics of the preload. who the **** you think your kidding. me? whos been doing this shit sinse beta days? i dont think so , dont post if you dont have anything good to say to the community.
 
If it doesn't start tonight, there's probably a very good reason. Obviously no one has preloaded yet, and anybody who says he has is a dirty Republican who crosses the street to piss on homeless people. (That is, a Bad Man.)

Sometimes things come up in scheduling, last-minute problems, etc. You might want to consider cutting them a little slack.
 
when I get the preload, I will pry my eyes inside the gcf.
 
If there's problems they should simply do a post on steampowered.com that it'll be delayed a few days/weeks.

It doesn't take a lot of effort to keep the community informed.
 
Who cares if you don't get the preload, its not like they are gonna release HL2 in a week, you can wait.
 
"OMG its date x and Valve hasnt done such and such"
Welcome to Valve world, where these things happen on a more-than-regular basis.
 
I think the lack of pre-load has something to do with yesterdays en masse CSS load (and the problems they had with that).

Valve were probably using the 16th as a test, to see if the servers could handle the stress, which they couldnt (locking up several times, telling users to wait a few hours) and CSS was only 366mb. HL2's un-altererable content is probably going to be at least a 1200/1300mb, which would put even more strain on Steam.

My guess is Gabe is waiting for the strain from CSS to die off, so he doesn't have to make 'the call'.
 
Even if it doesn't preload today, it doesn't change anything
 
dont think of it in terms of valve lying. if i say im going to meet someone at 12pm, and i get in a car accident and can't make it at 12pm, does that make me a liar?
 
I think he probably should have made "the call" for CS:S. If they constantly underestimate the strain for things like CS:S, which had about 60,000 preloaders, think of HL2, with almost a million preloads.

*shudder*
 
I don't buy the "Steam can't handle the CS:S preload" argument.

Some people did get "try again later" messages, but the total used bandwidth was never more than half of the available bandwidth. Look at the status page on steampowered.com.
 
i think you are waaaaaaaaaay overestimating, 1 million preloads for hl2? not even close man
 
poseyjmac said:
dont think of it in terms of valve lying. if i say im going to meet someone at 12pm, and i get in a car accident and can't make it at 12pm, does that make me a liar?
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Hardly an appropriate analogy, is it?

A better one would be:

If you're on a life support machine, needing a new heart, with 2 hours to live, and I tell you I'll be along with a new heart in 90 minutes.

I then get 'stuck' talking to the extremley attractive nurse at the reception.. is it really my fault? :LOL:
 
poseyjmac said:
i think you are waaaaaaaaaay overestimating, 1 million preloads for hl2? not even close man
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The HL2 hardware survey showed 950,000 unique responses, and it hasn't been updated for three months. That doesn't count the amount of people who declined to take it. I think I might be pretty spot-on.

GorgeousOrfice said:
I don't buy the "Steam can't handle the CS:S preload" argument.

Some people did get "try again later" messages, but the total used bandwidth was never more than half of the available bandwidth. Look at the status page on steampowered.com.
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Gabe's post on HL2fallout said that the actual real-life numbers were much much lower than those advertised.
 
1 Million pre-loads for Half-life2....Yea right, about 50 000 no more. And for CS:S preload yesterday, it was smooth and slick for me. I started up Steam at 11PM East and CS:S preloaded at 1.5Mb/s. It took about 20mins and everything was nice.
 
benson said:
Hardly an appropriate analogy, is it?

A better one would be:

If you're on a life support machine, needing a new heart, with 2 hours to live, and I tell you I'll be along with a new heart in 90 minutes.

I then get 'stuck' talking to the extremley attractive nurse at the reception.. is it really my fault? :LOL:
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ya hes right,

lol its like valve needs to get off thair fat lazzy asses and quit playing doom3, shit they have their own game to take care of first.

if u do get stuck in an accident, yes u are a lier u said 12 and its 12 your not their, u lied but the question is will i be simpathetic to you for beig in a accidnet, now lets see should ib e simpatehtic to valve for lying on every single date they put out except CSS and that was very questionable too.

that is the bigger question. its not about the preload or the game being released in september why cry for it now, its not about that no one is crying, i turned on my comp and wow its cs ok let me double click it, never was expecting it to be there its hte principle, so yes, if u get stuck in a car accident and upromised to be somewhere at 12, and u didnt make it, you did lie, the truth is the truth.
 
I don't think it will preload for everyone...

What's the point of preloading HL2 for users who don't want it? Some people simply don't have the interest in this game or money and the majority or users want it retail. I don't see the point of preloading it for them... They'll probably add an icon like they did with CS:CZ and if you have the ATI Voucher it'll be free and for other users, you'll have to pay. THEN Half-Life2 will start preloading
 
i cant even log in at the moment. maybe something is happening.
 
1) thanks already bookmarekd, http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
2) i type extremely fast, keys stick
3) dude please i can spell words that you cant so your not better than me i may not be able to spell the easier ones, but i garantee yu cant shure as hell spell the hard ones i can.

stop changing the subject what do u ahve to add about hl2 preload? and your thoughts on hl2 and CSS

p.s. wow now that i look back on the first posts i did make a lot of mistakes for example: "Their" i wrote "thair" thats not a spelling mistake as you think of one not knowing how to spell. its just a typing one, refer to number 2 upstairs.

edit: cmon guys seriously its not about my spelling, lets get to hl2 and css.
 
dude please i can spell words that you cant so your not better than me i may not be able to spell the easier ones, but i garantee yu cant shure as hell spell the hard ones i can.
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Serious or not, that there is some funny shit!
 
GorgeousOrifice said:
If it doesn't start tonight, there's probably a very good reason. Obviously no one has preloaded yet, and anybody who says he has is a dirty Republican who crosses the street to piss on homeless people. (That is, a Bad Man.)

Sometimes things come up in scheduling, last-minute problems, etc. You might want to consider cutting them a little slack.
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Republicans are no dirtier than girly democrats. I hate it when people take cheap shots about political parties. It goes both ways, but if we were to list the negative things about both republicans and democrats I am pretty sure that the democrats would prolly end up with more negatives.
 
poseyjmac said:
dont think of it in terms of valve lying. if i say im going to meet someone at 12pm, and i get in a car accident and can't make it at 12pm, does that make me a liar?
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if you lie about the first car accident, and then have 4 or 5 other car accidents... yes
 
benson said:
Hardly an appropriate analogy, is it?

A better one would be:

If you're on a life support machine, needing a new heart, with 2 hours to live, and I tell you I'll be along with a new heart in 90 minutes.

I then get 'stuck' talking to the extremley attractive nurse at the reception.. is it really my fault? :LOL:
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Actually, since you don't have any idea WHAT caused the delay, you're pretty much just making up an analogy that fits your imagination. You're doing as much lying as anyone here.

"Valve delayed the pre-load kickoff because they got distracted by something fun" is what your analogy implies. However, you have absolutely no proof that's true.
 
Tyl3n0L said:
I don't think it will preload for everyone...

What's the point of preloading HL2 for users who don't want it? Some people simply don't have the interest in this game or money and the majority or users want it retail. I don't see the point of preloading it for them... They'll probably add an icon like they did with CS:CZ and if you have the ATI Voucher it'll be free and for other users, you'll have to pay. THEN Half-Life2 will start preloading
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The HL2 preload will NOT be limited to the ATi voucher holders. Look at it this way:

CS:S will be included with HL2. It's being BETA TESTED, to a select group of people who have been recent valve customers, therefore you need to own the afforementioned product(s) to preload it and use it. HL2, on the other hand, doesn't exist, as it is. Therefore, it will preload to everyone to give the people who don't own HL2 a chance to buy it and use it immediately once it's "unlocked." They did this with CZ, everyone got it. Not just those who "preordered it" on Steam.

To limit the HL2 preload to 1% (if even) of the people who technically "own" HL2 is stupid, and the purpose of a preload is all together defeated.

Besides, Gabe already said that you'd be able to preload the game on Steam, buy a retail copy, and simply put your CDKey in Steam and play instantly without having to install it.
 
ok it seems were going off topic,
sooo.....

ya man hl2 is goona be great, im excited to see how video cards perform. is it more video demanding or cpu demanding, and why hasnt this preload starteD? valve messing up again?

edit: thanks for bringing it back shuz.
 
wow gunz thanks for post, at the 1700 hour, u see a rise in 2000mbps, thats when a lot of people started loading CSS i started 6:30 i beat the crowd, but u think thats enough to mess up their servers ? they still way below their max.
 
Tyl3n0L said:
1 Million pre-loads for Half-life2....Yea right, about 50 000 no more. And for CS:S preload yesterday, it was smooth and slick for me. I started up Steam at 11PM East and CS:S preloaded at 1.5Mb/s. It took about 20mins and everything was nice.
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Damn, that sucks, I was only able to download at 500kbps yesterday at 4:00AM MST (-7 GMT I believe) and I have a 3.0Mb connection. Ah well, I guess it could have been busy because of people in different countries where the sun would have been up.

BigNamek...
 
If you have a look at the Steampowered Status Page you'll realise that the aggregate of the content servers had no issues coping with the preload, and infact only once went over the total avaliable bandwidth.

Certain key servers may have had issues, but if that were the case, restart steam and it will hopefully pick a better server which gives better download speeds.

I don't think the preload of HL2 unchangeable content was affected by the results of the 'testrun' of the system using CS: Source as a guinea pig.
 
no one officially announced it would be here today.

Gabe just said it. And unexpected turns happen, he's jsut man a probably didn't expected his sentence to be repeated all over the community as law .
 
Sprafa said:
no one officially announced it would be here today.

Gabe just said it. And unexpected turns happen, he's jsut man a probably didn't expected his sentence to be repeated all over the community as law .
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Thats a nice cop out.

I mean he posts on a forum knowing who he is and what happens when he posts, he says Hl2 will after years and years come into some actual physical contact (ie.. on your hard drive)

But hes just a guy so it doesnt matter if everything he says turns out wrong.... becuase hes just a guy...

Doesnt quite work that way my friend.

*and no im not pissed, i aint even getting it over steam, i just dont like people defending some1 when they dont deserve defending*
 
For all who know what I am referring to. He will definitely need to make the call for more bandwidth. It's gonna cost em but I think it's worth every penny.
 
I haven't actually logged into these boards in 9 months, i figured the preload was starting today and so there'd be lots of excitement and that we'd have HL2 within the week.... or something...
 
Magicpants said:
I haven't actually logged into these boards in 9 months, i figured the preload was starting today and so there'd be lots of excitement and that we'd have HL2 within the week.... or something...
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you haven't figured valve into the equation yet :farmer:
 
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