I hate installers that download files as needed

[andrewducker]

Diablo III is currently doing an Open Beta weekend. And as Julie loved the first two, I figured it might be worth grabbing two copies to play with.

So I downloaded it, thinking that 44MB wasn't very much. And, as I suspected, the installer is now downloading 3.7GB of extra content.

Guess what - it'll have to do exactly the same thing again on Julie's machine. So rather than downloading the content once, it's going to download 7.4GB.

I don't know who thought this would be a good idea, but it really wasn't...

Edit:
I AM WRONG!

It is smarter than it looks. I started the download on Julie's machine half an hour after the download on my machine, it quickly ramped up to 5MB/s (which is significantly faster than my broadband is this week), and slurped it down from my machine via the wonders of P2P.

I take it back, Blizzard coders, you are smarter than you look!

Comments

[darkoshi]

Qiao's been eagerly awaiting the release of Diablo III. I shall tell him about the open beta. Thanks for the tip

[matgb]

When I lived in Torquay where dial up was the only option at home, I used to DL stuff at work after hours to take home sometimes. The stupid companies that would do that sort of thing would get a fair bit of bashing from me on occasions. Bloody stupid approach.

I guess it's about time I figured out what the specs of this laptop translate to in gaming terms soon then, I think it'll run D3 but...

[dreema.livejournal.com]

that's pretty good. the other way of doing it would be to copy the completed one from your machine to her machine. I've seen that work before, WoW would work that way.

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

Boycotting it until they ditch the crippleware.

Then again, I haven't played the first two (yet), so maybe they're not losing anything.

[dreema.livejournal.com]

actually, i'm genuinely curious. Have they fixed it yet so you can specify a maximum upload/download speed on their p2p client? Back when i used to play wow I always disabled their p2p client for updates, and downloaded them manually from a 3rd party site, because it would connect up and instantly start using _all_ your available bandwidth