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mellowtiggerEverquest2 has still been enjoyable to play. Tonight, the teeny tiny guild of GLBT folk that I play in actually had 6 people online at the same time. Huge! *laugh* I managed to get 3 of us in a group, even. That was a nice experience for a change.
Meanwhile, I remembered that Spore Creature Creator was supposed to be on sale this weekend in stores. So I went online and downloaded the free preview version. Within minutes, I went online to order the full thing. It's already impressive, and this is just the creature editor, not the actual game. (That's due in September.) While ordering my game, though, I noticed two things. 1) "E-commerce hosting and data processing services are provided by Digital River Inc.." and 2) "pre-ordered release date: Wed Jun 18 12:00:00 CDT 2008".
Oh, hey, that's where my roommate![[info]](https://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
joshuwain works. Oh, hey... *glance at clock*... it's the 18th right now!
But the Spore website defies my wishes! It says I pre-ordered, yet it prevents me from digitally downloading my purchase. Argh! I wonder if I could go pound onjoshuwain 's door at 2am and get him to fix it for me? }:)
Oh well. I really should be sleeping instead of doing this:
http://www.spore.com/view/profile/MellowTigger
Meanwhile, I remembered that Spore Creature Creator was supposed to be on sale this weekend in stores. So I went online and downloaded the free preview version. Within minutes, I went online to order the full thing. It's already impressive, and this is just the creature editor, not the actual game. (That's due in September.) While ordering my game, though, I noticed two things. 1) "E-commerce hosting and data processing services are provided by Digital River Inc.." and 2) "pre-ordered release date: Wed Jun 18 12:00:00 CDT 2008".
Oh, hey, that's where my roommate
joshuwain works. Oh, hey... *glance at clock*... it's the 18th right now!But the Spore website defies my wishes! It says I pre-ordered, yet it prevents me from digitally downloading my purchase. Argh! I wonder if I could go pound on
joshuwain 's door at 2am and get him to fix it for me? }:)Oh well. I really should be sleeping instead of doing this:
http://www.spore.com/view/profile/MellowTigger
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Date: 2008-Jun-18, Wednesday 03:48 pm (UTC)Besides, I thought the "pre-ordering" was to be in September.
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Date: 2008-Jun-18, Wednesday 04:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-Jun-18, Wednesday 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-Jun-18, Wednesday 05:30 pm (UTC)http://eastore.ea.com/store/ea/DisplayProductDetailsPage/ProductID.96890600
But after the purchase is made, apparently they just flip a switch at their servers that then allows their own download manager program to pull the file down to a local directory. (Why all the bother? Why not just a direct link?)
But it's 30 minutes after official release time, and my download manager is still empty. :(
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Date: 2008-Jun-18, Wednesday 06:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-Jun-18, Wednesday 10:38 pm (UTC)I received my email about the digital download, but the link is not clickable. (The prefix for the link is "ealink:" not http: or ftp:, so I don't recognize what format it's aiming for.)
My EA Download Manager finally lists the program in its window, but it refuses to download anything. (0KB of 0KB transferred) *shrug*