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Pre-loading Left 4 Dead 2 is  now something you can do photo

So you pre-loaded the Left 4 Dead 2 demo early in order to play the game as soon as possible. Then you played the Left 4 Dead 2 demo to death. People started calling dibs on characters. Things are moving forward. But what do you do now? What is the next step? Why it's pre-loading the full game, of course.

If you ordered the game via Steam then you can now download it and let it sit on your computer until the game's actual release date of Nov. 17. You can of course still get ten percent off the game if you purchase it via Steam. Time to download and start staring at the files longingly.








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Infinite Combo's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/08/2009 14:08
Infinite Combo
It's misleading when Steam says that you can pre-load the game and then play it the minute its released. The files have to be decrypted and that takes some time. I thought that I would be able to instantly play the demo because I had pre-loaded it earlier but had to wait quite a while for the files to decrypt before I could play it.
bobmarleypeople's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/08/2009 14:10
bobmarleypeople
This is especially helpful for those of us who have awful net connections (mine is half a meg).
ThunderHeartXI's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/08/2009 14:14
ThunderHeartXI
@Infinite Combo

Either way, it's probably a lot faster then downloading the full game when thousands of other people are trying to do the same thing.
Haizeus's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/08/2009 14:18
Haizeus
I'll just pick up the disk, a thank you.
peachboy's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/08/2009 14:31
peachboy
this is kind of hilarious...in a really awesome way.
digital distro ftw
DaedHead8's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/08/2009 14:40
DaedHead8
I preloaded L4D2 yesterday therefore I can confidently claim that this news is OLD!
DUFFMcWALIN's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/08/2009 14:50
DUFFMcWALIN
i preloaded yesteray. I cant wait till this game comes out. In the mean time ill be playing da:o and mw2
OriginalPolzin's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/08/2009 15:42
OriginalPolzin
Sweet. I'll start preloading since I won't be using my computer for anything else for the next few days...

Fucking flu...
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