I wouldn’t bother. What’s the point in releasing it.
I’d link it to a page with a looped flash clip of Rick Astley, and you have to click on a certain blank/white part (about 8 pixels square) of the page to start the download…
I would print out six access codes onto golden tickets and send them out hidden in candy bars.
Torrents are EXTREMELY SLOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Actually, no, they are usually faster. Downloading from 50 different nodes (Peers/seeds) at once is faster than downloading from one node (Single server). Unless you are on dialup.
Big, shiny, badass 10-minute trailer/gameplay demo on the silver screen at movie theaters world-wide with the message “OUT NOW FOR FREE AT BLACKMESASOURSE.COM” at the end.
Also trailer would have mostly sequences of BM/HECU combat, with a big shiny Anti-Mass Spectrometer sequence at the beginning and lots of snippets from the boss fights in the game, punctuated by various zombie-attacking-you-clips.
Torrents are slow when everybody seeding has their upload set extremely low. However, I have seen successful distribution of projects by having dedicated high-speed seeds available at all times. When nobody else is available, these seeds act essentially like a regular web server, sending the torrent data from a single, central point. Where the torrent diverges from that server is that when 20,000 people all want to download it at once, those dedicated seeds don’t have to send out 20,000 copies simultaneously.
When there are plenty of peers, torrents can be extremely fast, and when there are few peers, having a dedicated seed (or three) is no worse than hosting the file on a web server.
Release one character from the download link each day, name the file
something quite random [ie. 235jk4h8gu3nio4089] so that no one knows when
the link is actually finished and force them to come back every day testing to
see if it is. ALSO, I would throw in spoof points where certain points of the link
[ie. 235jk4h[COLOR=‘Red’]8gu3n[COLOR=‘Red’]io4089] actually initiate a download prompt to simply download
a [Actual game file size]Gb video of the Rick Roll on loop or something like that.[/SIZE]
give a link, here’s the mod we’ve worked on for so long ohbai
Do that but have the download link at the end forcing them to watch the video :evil:
But make the video loop.
1st. I will announce BLACK MESA IS RELEASED and have a download that will be removed after 30 minutes.
2nd. I will announce IF YOU MISSED THE DOWNLOAD YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT ANOTHER 1 YEAR OR MORE
3rd. I will go on the forums and see posts everywhere saying I WANT BLACK MESA.
4th. I will put up an annoucement saying I WAS JOKING and have a phony download to the leak of black mesa.
5th. I will announce YOU WILL NOW NEED PAYPAL TO DOWNLOAD BM
6th. I charge everyone 500 dollars for the game.
7th. People that are cool get the game for free.
Open up a brewery called “Barney’s Beers” and write a letter of the download link under each cap. 
Nobody here that would seek cooperation from ISP’s ?
I know certain ISP’s add there tracker to torrent’s from eg. Linux distributions, that way there users will have a fast download and bandwidth consumption will be minimal at ISP level (saving them money).
I would contact ISP’s, tell them I am going to release a high profile game on torrent and ask if I should include there tracker in the torrent and provide bandwidth. (explaining the cost benefit)
This means you have to send the game to the ISP’s before releasing this to the public.
I would sell the game to EA, they can release it.
[COLOR=‘Black’]- after they add ironsights and change all the aliens to humans and change xen to an army base
:fffuuu: The end of the best fps franchise we ever had in a decade.
Scribble the download link on a dollar bill and pay for something with that bill. Then wait for someone to notice it eventually.
By making everyone follow a link that links a virus that takes over their computer and insults everyone of the fans’ contacts, and says they’re not friends or whatever anymore, and then deletes all content from the computer and disables the back accounts, as well as disabling the computer. And then release Black Mesa.
For 1kb you don’t have to wait…same for files lower than 1MB
This thread ought to be titled “How would you fail to release Black Mesa?” 