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 Xiron   Germany. November 11 2011 23:41. Posts 1153
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Hey guys,

as probably 90% of you guys I'm in total Skyrim fever today. Im really excited to see everything and explore a completely new world. There is only one tiny problem. It's called Steam. This morning I patiently waited for my amazon package to arrive. After I ripped the packaging apart, I thrusted the dvd right into my Pc. While downloading steam, I gazed at the wonderful map that comes with the game. After steam was downloaded, I instantly started the installer. Somehow it started, but was over after like 20 seconds, which is a bit shot for 5 gb since my pc is not a high end one. But whatever. After that the game tries to log into steam. After 20-30 crashes while loading, it finally started so I could log into Steam. But what do I see? Hurr, 5,5 gb of an update! WTF? Why do I buy a dvd if I still have to download 6gb? If I go into 'reinstall mode' it just says 'Checking Steam Chache 100%' but after 20 minutes still nothing happened. After that I was raging pretty hard since it takes like 6 hours for me to download 6 gb. So I decided to try installing on my brothers pc. After starting steam, a 'starting steam hurhurrhurr' window comes up, but just like at my own pc nothing happens after that. It's ridiculous! But that is not all. After downloading like 1gb: ' Steam servers are busy, try again later ' But that didnt work, so I restarted steam. Yea nice idea Xiron, steam not starting again. Awesome. Thanks steam! I just wanted to play the most epic game since Oblivion. Now I have to spend 8 hours waiting for your shit to run properly.

Im so sad right now. T_T
Last edit: 2011-11-11 23:44:13


"The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. " - Charlie Chaplin
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 Daikas   United States. November 11 2011 23:45. Posts 92
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Yeah I did not know about this earlier either and had a head explode moment. After spending some time searching I found a fix tho, so I'll point you in the right direction.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5357-FSQM-0382
Is that a sword? Luxury! Is that a horse? Sloth! Is that a helmet? Vanity!
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 atmuh   United States. November 11 2011 23:50. Posts 240
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why didnt you just buy it on steam and preload it 3 days before it came out
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 2WeaK   Canada. November 12 2011 00:03. Posts 534
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On November 11 2011 23:50 atmuh wrote:
why didnt you just buy it on steam and preload it 3 days before it came out


Some people have this thing called "Bandwidth Caps" and they can't always spare the extra bandwidth, so they prefer to buy a retail copy to avoid wasting their bandwidth.
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 Xiron   Germany. November 12 2011 00:09. Posts 1153
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On November 11 2011 23:50 atmuh wrote:
why didnt you just buy it on steam and preload it 3 days before it came out


1st: It was cheaper.
2nd: I hate steam and dont want to support them
3rd: As I said it takes ages to download, so why not just install from a DVD that is cheaper than downloading?
"The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. " - Charlie Chaplin
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 Xiron   Germany. November 12 2011 00:10. Posts 1153
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On November 11 2011 23:45 Daikas wrote:
Yeah I did not know about this earlier either and had a head explode moment. After spending some time searching I found a fix tho, so I'll point you in the right direction.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5357-FSQM-0382


THANKS! I hope it works..... ROFL 'Servers are busy' wtf... T_T

IT WORKS NOW ! YAY THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Last edit: 2011-11-12 00:24:16
"The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. " - Charlie Chaplin
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 atmuh   United States. November 12 2011 00:11. Posts 240
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there are really people that still hate steam even today?
blows my mind
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 MisterD   Germany. November 12 2011 00:23. Posts 1338
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this is what happens if you buy console ports on rushed release days.

also, i'm the 10%. do i need to promote occupy skyrim now or something like that? x)
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 Xiron   Germany. November 12 2011 00:26. Posts 1153
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On November 12 2011 00:11 atmuh wrote:
there are really people that still hate steam even today?
blows my mind


Why do I have to be online on Steam for a game that has no online component? Cant explain that!


On November 12 2011 00:23 MisterD wrote:
this is what happens if you buy console ports on rushed release days.

also, i'm the 10%. do i need to promote occupy skyrim now or something like that? x)


Why dont you like Skyrim? Btw what do you mean by console ports? Google doesnt tell me :<
"The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. " - Charlie Chaplin
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 atmuh   United States. November 12 2011 00:28. Posts 240
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you can run steam while offline and still play stuff and if you get disconnected from steam ingame it also doesnt matter
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 MisterD   Germany. November 12 2011 00:31. Posts 1338
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i didn't say i don't like skyrim, i'm just not hyped for it. i might play it some time, but certainly not right now.

and console port as in "developed on and for game consoles (xbox/playstation etc) but made playable on pc as well", meaning it sucks to play on pc because it usually shows several symptoms of "crashes when you alt tab or some popup throws you out of fullscreen", "provides nearly no configuration options", "has a game-pad designed user-interface", etc.
Last edit: 2011-11-12 00:31:56
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 zakmaa   Canada. November 12 2011 00:37. Posts 523
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You can still play steam games without being connected to the internet, they do have an offline mode, I'd recommend trying that if it really bugs you that much... Steam certainly isn't the best-designed thing out there, but I still enjoy it
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 Elektrobear   November 12 2011 01:45. Posts 108
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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111110165853AAf0hTZ

It's a bug. You can still install from dvd with this workaround.
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 Gak2   Canada. November 12 2011 01:56. Posts 354
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On November 12 2011 00:26 Xiron wrote:

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Why do I have to be online on Steam for a game that has no online component? Cant explain that!


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Why dont you like Skyrim? Btw what do you mean by console ports? Google doesnt tell me :<


you don't have to be online... your hate for steam seems like misguided fear

console port means that during development the game is programmed and optimized for a console first, then later modified (ported) to be run on a pc. (or it means something close to that). So more unexpected bugs happen on the pc version, since there is an additional layer of modification.
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 Daikas   United States. November 12 2011 02:27. Posts 92
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On November 12 2011 00:10 Xiron wrote:

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THANKS! I hope it works..... ROFL 'Servers are busy' wtf... T_T

IT WORKS NOW ! YAY THANK YOU SO MUCH!


At first I was like wtf... what the hell's the point of a CD if it has to download the install from online? My mind was blown. Did I really waste my time with a midnight release for a map and still have to wait 5 hours to play when I could have just bought off steam and preload. I don't know why it's set default to download and not install off of disc. Luckily I found this from another forum.
Is that a sword? Luxury! Is that a horse? Sloth! Is that a helmet? Vanity!
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