In your dreams haha
we can hope. :[
There’ll be an official torrent and 13 unofficial ones.
so you’ll have 13/14 chances of getting some trojan
How many? I say up around 10,000 will attempt to download it the first day, and then up around another 6,000 will attempt to download it in days 2-6. After that it will be gravy.
That said, I predict we will break the interweb and obama will call cman2k and tell him to cut it out. :s nicker:
dAYum… we need to get a new userbar ready for the crash dont we?!
“31/12/2009 Internet crash - I will be part of it”
I will be downloading directly off the Black Mesa site just like I did with the Half Life Decay PC port HL1 mod. I do not trust torrents because I affiliate that word with porn popups and viruses. These are the sites I would assume would be on the download page:
Location #1 (BLACK MESA’S OFFICIAL SITE) [ DOWNLOAD ]
Location #2 (rapidshare.com) [ DOWNLOAD ]
Location #3 (filefront.com) [ DOWNLOAD ]
Location #4 (stixsworld.com) [ DOWNLOAD ]
Location #5 (alyx.sk) [ DOWNLOAD ]
Location #6 (solidfiles.com) [ DOWNLOAD ]
Location #7 (aljaud.com) [ DOWNLOAD ]
Location #8 (hostilezone.net) [ DOWNLOAD ]
Location #9 (stevenroddis.com) [ DOWNLOAD ]
Location #10 (gamersgate.ru) [ DOWNLOAD ]
Location #11 (talismanisland.com) [ DOWNLOAD ]
Location #12 (weebitmagic.com) [ DOWNLOAD ]
Location #13 (strategyinformer.com) [ DOWNLOAD ]
Location #14 (filecloud.com (hl fallout)) [ DOWNLOAD ]
Location #15 (fileplanet.com) [ DOWNLOAD ]
Location #16 (games.on.net) [ DOWNLOAD ]
TORRENT location [ DOWNLOAD ]
haha
I don’t think blackmesasource.com will host the game, personally. It will break the bank (and thier servers) much too quickly. Say if only 5000 people download it in one day at 4gigs a pop, that is still 20 Terabytes of Bandwidth. And that’s just the first day.
IMO this is going to be something that only Torrents and Gigantor sites/companies can handle.
Also…
Torrents are only dangerous to noobs who don’t know what they are doing. If you are not a noob, you will not get infected. Ever. Just my two cents…
^that
THIS! DOES NOT COMPUTE!
Yes that what he said makes no sense. Torrenting is a type of downloading. A fairly fast type. It’s not just for pirating.
yeah well… I think I will be getting my copy 12 hours before you guys… so I wont have to worry about hiccups.
It all depends where you get your torrents from, Bob.
I’ve seen alot more spyware on rapidshare TBH.
I suppose this isn’t really surprising. The team isn’t going to say “Hay guys, look we are done the game! Lets release it immediately!”
They are going to say "Hay guys, we seem to have a finished game! Lets test the shit out of it! Ok, a few bugs here and there, lets fix them… Ok, that’s done, lets do it again just to make sure! Awesome the game is done lets have a party! Looks like its time to release! Lets contact some peoples to see who wants to host and prepare the main website for a jillion hits! Oh btw, you VIP people, have the release first because you are awesome and/or are team members. Ok lets do this! Cman2K presses the big red button and the internets asplodes"
Alternate reality plot: “Oh hai Valve. What, you wanted to see the game before we release it? Oh I remember now, you said that awhile ago. I hope you don’t make us delay the game! Whats that, you want to buy the game? No Wai! Game releases on steam for $14.99 and Raminator becomes the new Bill Gates”
Or not…
Bill Gates isn’t nice. He is only a philanthropist now because he has to after all the pain and suffering that is Windows and Microsoft products. He is making amends. And when he is done giving money, god will forgive him.
I bet you use a mac.
lol, hell no. Don’t get me started on Steve Jobs.
Windows 7 on all machines here! oh and NVIDIA graphics! haha