Calthine wrote:
I actually asked that question on PR at Fan Faire. Basically, they had the chance to a) give you a quick download, but restrict you and interrupt you for the big download, or b) getting all the pain out of the way up front so that if you had friends in the game you could actually interact with them and go explore a bit.
They went with b.
Of course the interaction is somewhat restrictive as well. I was getting tells from people and found I couldn't respond to them. I could only chat in say and OOC I believe, I think I tried talking in the n00b level channel and it wouldn't allow that either.
Regardless the demo was good enough to give a taste of the game. I got 3 different toons to level 10 where it caps out, but it was enough for me to see that I enjoyed it thus far and was willing to pay the 40 bucks to try it out further. The subsequent downloads suprised me though, of course I had the expansion to download as well. It eneded up being 2 sessions of 6 and 7 hours to follow. That was with a cable connection. It finally finished during last night though so I'll get to login tonight and play the full version.
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