What to do before release, so the internet doesn't die.

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#61

Protip: No one on the internet can truly be trusted.

#62

That’s true. The Internet is serious business.

#63

There’s a test that can be used for seeing who can be trusted. If people click the link in my sig, they can’t.

#64

give teh torrent to me u guise can trust me rite??

#65

Well Ram, I think it would be pretty fuckin’ cock rockin, if I could buy a physical copy of this game… :stuck_out_tongue: Anyway, that’s mostly because my internet isn’t the best and it’ll take me a while to download this hulk of a project. :smiley:

#66

Well, that’s a good idea, as long as I’m considered as a “top trusted member”. :fffuuu:

Otherwise, I think you guys should do it à la Valve, releasing the mod as crypted files, and release the pass later. I’m not sure about how will this works, though. :frowning:

#67

People can try to be as prepared as they want, the reality is that once the mod is released something is bound to go wrong.

#68

Yes, but I also thought it would be a good way to distribute the mod. I might just burn the installer to a disc, that way I won’t have to reinstall.

#69

What the? O_o

You can’t play a game without installing if you only have the installer on DVD. :hmph:
Explain to me why you’d think it negates your need to ever reinstall it?

#70

I think he meant that he doesn’t have to download it again, personally I too will be burning my copy to DVD.

#71

pff. Who needs Dvds these days? Probably people who own one of these hard disks?

#72

Flash drives are where it’s at, amirite?

#73

SSD

#74

SSD is faster but more expensive and less portable.

#75

SSD is just a fancy word to say flash memory on a sata or pci bus

Many SD cards are fast enough to run windows or linux.

#76

Hm, learned something new. Thanks!

#77

I dont mind being one of the last to download it, it would make me so anxious but the people that have been here before me should get it first.

#78

How noble of you. I’ll remember your sacrifice while I’m riding the tram to sector C.

#79

they can upload a torrent to a secure tracker thepiratebay for example and SEED SEED SEED for millions of fans :stuck_out_tongue:

#80

Yeah, if they got all 70-some active and old devs to use a torrent, it’d go nice and fast. It’d better… If the internet was a Wal-Mart, I’d be the annoying guy in line shoving people out of the way, trampling people, and saying, “C’mon guys, let me up there, don’t be a dick, just let me cut, my friends are up there, c’mon…”

As for me, I’m gonna burn my copy to DVD, dress it up real nice and put in in a DVD box on my shelf. It will be the pride and joy of my computer area.

Nerdy? Maybe, but it’s been five freakin’ years, I think it’s justified.

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