First dog watch, 1 bell (4:46 pm)
I started downloading Starcraft 2 yesterday morning around 7am. Given that it was 6.99Gb, I figured it would take most of the day. I was wrong.
The ETA bounced around 30 to 120+ hours. After I got home, I started digging in to the download client settings, and found the peer-to-peer info page, which showed me that I was getting a whopping 6Kb/s from three different peers, each at 2.0Kb/s.
So I figure the Mac version wouldn't be as popular as the Windows version, but seriously—this was horrible! So I shut down the peer-to-peer functionality (not recommended by Blizzard), and immediately jumped to around 600Kb/s download rate. It finished in two hours.
Starcraft 2 is, however, gorgeous.
Let me know what you think about it. I am still not sure I am going to pick it up yet.
Must...upgrade...computer!!!
Starcraft 2 is AWESOME. The graphics are beautiful! The gameplay is fun. It's much more than an old "build up and conquer" game. Lots of things to do inbetween missions.
One more for the list!