Earlier today I picked up Shogun Total War 2 today. Pretty physced to play it, so I try to install it. You need a steam account, so I made one. Than I entered the authentication code, but the "servers" were busy (because of Summer sale). So 45 minutes to 1 hour later, it lets me enter in the authentication code. So now i'm installing it... but servers are "too busy" again. So I re do the whole process, and it begins to download, but really really slow, and 15 minutes in its at 3% and estimated download time being 8 hours.
Is there a way I can install it with....OUT Steam? Because this is nothing more than bullshit. Seriously, 11 hours to install a game with the discs already supplied.
Is my Internet being shitty or is it Steam's servers, because I'm starting to get a little pissed
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Steam is backed up because of the Steam Summer Sale. It always happens during holiday sales. It's probably neither of your faults, just huge traffic.
EDIT: Also, I have no idea about the physical copy install. Seems reasonable to assume you need Steam up since you're outputting information into Steam's servers rather than connected Sega servers...or something, I suck at Networking.
Neither your fault nor Steam. When, presumably, all your users are downloading something at the same time, there's not much the server can except dial back the speed for everyone if they're lucky to even begin their download.
Yeah, Shogun 2, and a lot of other steamworks games, are a bit messed up with the installation if you bought it on disc. It tried to redownload the whole game for me too, even though it's on the disc. I don't remember what i did, but try installing it a few more times or something, or taking steam to offline mode, or something. I eventually managed to get it to work without downloading the whole massive game. It was a major annoyance though.
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