14 DAY TRIAL // Looks like some are more than eager to play Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Even tough the first person RPG shipped yesterday, and was also distributed through the Steam digital distribution system, some Dark Messiah enthusiasts never got a chance to play it.
According to a post on Voodoo Extreme website, the Steam distribution system is more than slow. In fact, in some cases, it doesn't even work. A Dark Messiah fan tried to play it straight and didn't download the game from torrent sites. Instead, he tried to get the game via Steam. Big mistake.
From the information he revealed looks like Steam's bandwidth was extremely low yesterday. Either he was having problems with his Internet connection, either Steam can't handle the amount of games present on their server.
Over the past few weeks, Steam grabbed a lot of games, including the Call of Duty series, Roboblitz, Psychonauts and a series of games from 2K, not to mention Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Maybe these games are taking a toll on their server.
Apache, the guy that signed the post, also posted a picture showing his Steam-Bandwith monitor. The picture showed that he downloaded 406.6 MB of the game, at a peak download rate of 159.3 KB per second. (talk about slow). The download rate at the time he took the picture was?you guessed it? 0 bytes per second.
Maybe Valve should reconsider their strategy and stop crowding their server with all kinds of silly games and to focus on the important ones.