27 hours to update? It's a new game FFS!

[:1]I bought SC2 last week, and I haven't played it yet, but I already hate it.



When I try to launch the game, STEAM comes up and says it's updating the game. Fine. The game was just released like a month ago, but whatever. I check the progress, and it says it'll take 1 day 3 hours. WHAT??? Then I look at the speed. It's jumping around between 20 and 25 KB/s. My connection is 256k DSL, and no other downloads are running.



I left it on while I was at work last night, and when I got home 8 hours later it still said 17 hours 50-something minutes. I tried to run it in offline mode, but it says I CAN'T until it's fully updated. Oh, and because I went offline I now have to start over on the update.



Is there something I'm doing wrong? Did anyone else have to spend this long updating their game?|||ya big patches sort of fails|||It'd be nice for them to post a self extracting exe that will patch the game so the folks that lack the bandwidth at home can use their work's blazing fast internet to get the patch and bring it home, but that's just wishful thinking.|||Be sure that you have set your download region close to your location



go to view>setting>download tab in steam to check



if you dont have broadband, too bad |||The location is set to Phoenix, Arizona, which is just south of me in Utah. That's the closest one. Is it possible another one (Los Angeles, for example) might be faster because fewer people are using it?



I'd have liked to have the patch actually included IN THE GAME DISC as PART OF THE INSTALLATION. Are you listening, GPG? You know, like how when you go buy a car they don't come to your house the next day and say "Oops, we forgot to put in the engine!"



But somehow software is different, and they can't ever just sell you an actual finished product.



I guess I'll just leave it going all day and all night...|||jchardin|||I think you should choose the closest server, cause I don't think that many are updating all the time.



I am sure GPG have gotten Square Enix to print a new version of the DVD to avoid the huge patch.



It is pretty neat how the 'car maker' keep on updating my car at my home to get it to work. Like everyone else, I want to buy the (not necessarily expensive) perfect game that just works, but I guess real life just sucks.|||ya so true|||The disks were printed about a month before the game was released. How else can they be in stores at the release date? There was the zero-day patch of all the changes between disk-making and release day and 4 more patches after release, so expect big downloads.|||They should at least make the disks playable in single-player mode, and you only have to do a bunch of patching if you encounter a critical bug or want to play online. As far as I know, most of the patches have to do with keeping people from cheating in multiplayer, don't they? That, and unforseen conflicts with your unique system configuration.



I remember the games of yesteryear, like Starcraft, Mech Warrior, and Tomb Raider, that somehow worked right out of the box... ah, the good old days....|||Quote:|||B08AH|||But once it's all downloaded, just back up a copy and you wont ever have to do the update again.