20 Hours until release.

[Airi]

I hope you'll be here to post you're loading it up the minute it's live! (obviously personal schedules allowing. Real life before games always folks!)

[PhaseJump]

Originalmente postado por JoJo_the_2nd_Mouse:

Might be a silly question but I'm relatively new to steam: does this game not allow a pre download? It was part of why I preordered and I saw that console allows a pre download so it was odd that there's no option on PC unless I'm just totally missing it. TIA

Some games have it, some don't.

In my experience, usually Steam's server network is so fast compared to consoles that it doesn't matter. A few times it took more time to unpack and deploy the pre-downloaded content than it did to just download and install it normally when available.

[mudakonn]

6 hours to go - bought the game.

[Matrix RPG {YouTube}]

3hs and 6 min now..

[king_of_jamaica]

Stupid release times like this make me wish Steam would allow us to schedule a game to download as soon as it is released so I don't have to get up at 2am to download it.

I have a daily download limit of 15GB before my bandwidth gets throttled, but unlimited downloads between 11pm and 8am, so if I download this after I get up, potentially it will use my entire daily limit.

Really, every game should just have a pre-load, but since Steam is never going to enforce that, auto-download on release would be nice to have.

[sylvius5645]

hey guys, just pre-ordered. Today is 3/6/25. its still unplayable via steam. any idea what time would it be release today? I'm using steamdeck oled as well. is it playable here?

[Matrix RPG {YouTube}]

Originalmente postado por king_of_jamaica:

Stupid release times like this make me wish Steam would allow us to schedule a game to download as soon as it is released so I don't have to get up at 2am to download it.

I have a daily download limit of 15GB before my bandwidth gets throttled, but unlimited downloads between 11pm and 8am, so if I download this after I get up, potentially it will use my entire daily limit.

Really, every game should just have a pre-load, but since Steam is never going to enforce that, auto-download on release would be nice to have.

true. I agree

[Airi]

Originalmente postado por king_of_jamaica:

Stupid release times like this make me wish Steam would allow us to schedule a game to download as soon as it is released so I don't have to get up at 2am to download it.

I have a daily download limit of 15GB before my bandwidth gets throttled, but unlimited downloads between 11pm and 8am, so if I download this after I get up, potentially it will use my entire daily limit.

Really, every game should just have a pre-load, but since Steam is never going to enforce that, auto-download on release would be nice to have.

that's some crazy internet restrictions :(

[Airi]

Originalmente postado por sylvius5645:

hey guys, just pre-ordered. Today is 3/6/25. its still unplayable via steam. any idea what time would it be release today? I'm using steamdeck oled as well. is it playable here?

3am EST, midnight PST, 8am GMT. The store page also has a timer. It'll be available in just under 5 hours, and yes you can play it on steamdeck

[king_of_jamaica]

Originalmente postado por Airi:

that's some crazy internet restrictions :(

Rural US internet is terrible since fibre companies have no incentive to branch out from towns, so you're stuck with point-to-point WiFi where they gouge the ♥♥♥♥ out of you, charging $80+ per month for 35mbps with download limits.

[Airi]

Originalmente postado por king_of_jamaica:

Originalmente postado por Airi:

that's some crazy internet restrictions :(

Rural US internet is terrible since fibre companies have no incentive to branch out from towns, so you're stuck with point-to-point WiFi where they gouge the ♥♥♥♥ out of you, charging $80+ per month for 35mbps with download limits.

jesus, and I thought my Canadian internet was bad lol. I have friends in Toronto that can get 8Gbps for $90/mo (before taxes), and I get 1Gbps down and 30Mbps upload for that same price ;_;....but yours is actually worse :(. /hug my guy..../hug.

[mudakonn]

Originalmente postado por king_of_jamaica:

Originalmente postado por Airi:

that's some crazy internet restrictions :(

Rural US internet is terrible since fibre companies have no incentive to branch out from towns, so you're stuck with point-to-point WiFi where they gouge the ♥♥♥♥ out of you, charging $80+ per month for 35mbps with download limits.

What rural area that is? Very low population - i live near 200k pop city not in USA we have several fiber companies offering very fast and affordable service.

[Ray Rook]

The US is a much larger country than most. Our rural is not the same.

[Airi]

4 HOURS!! (and 6 mins lol). SoonTM everyone!!!!

[EasyOut]

Originalmente postado por Airi:

4 HOURS!! (and 6 mins lol). SoonTM everyone!!!!

but i want it to be NOW Airi!

[Lance Uppercut]

Originalmente postado por JoJo_the_2nd_Mouse:

Might be a silly question but I'm relatively new to steam: does this game not allow a pre download? It was part of why I preordered and I saw that console allows a pre download so it was odd that there's no option on PC unless I'm just totally missing it. TIA

Some games allow pre download, some don't. It's up to publisher. That said, these are 30 year old PS1 games, so download size should be very small.