Prey Preloading

lawl, $5 more than on Amazon, and you don't get a DVD, case, or manual...

Currently, digital distrubution = ripoff.

Pre-loading. Speed is crazy fast at 1500 kb/s sec which is my cap.

Nothing like a phat pipe......

I just want to note for the record that this morning at 2 a.m. EST the company founder is fielding support emails with a response time inside of 5 minutes!

VERY impressive indeed.......

I'll try to answer a few questions...

#3 - Pyrogen: You can preload it right now.

#13 - Patching: When a patch comes out, we get a copy of it as well so we can simultaneously release the patch. Only difference is that you can still play while it patches the game instead of downloading, installing, and then playing.

#15 yep.... #17 Yep again...

#19 Too many distros... I agree as well, and one point to note is that when you turn us off, it unloads and does not leave any malware behind to watch what you are doing, or sit in your tray eating up resources.

#20 Outside of the USA... Yes, we take international orders, and later tonight the first localization update will go out.. Once we get the language files translated, we will support 5 initial languages with many more to follow. The client is 100% unicode.

#21 Where to install... When you purchase/preload, thats the 2nd question it asks you.. Where do you want to put it. And with the desktop shortcut play, you will not need to see us when you play your game. The idea here is for us to be as transparent as possible. We are in this for the delivery of games, not to get in between you and your games.

Royal O'Brien, Founder
Playtriton.com

I'm curious as to why they didn't use Valve's Steam service.

I understand publishers not letting devs undercut them on price with online delivery, but this is still very disappointing. I really, really hope someone with the resources, like Valve, does either an online only release at $25 for a full game or does online and retail, but the retail version is significantly more expensive.

My hope is that such an event will drive more people to accept the idea of buying games via online delivery, thus enabling less well-heeled developers to release online-only (if publishers are making pricing demands) without cutting off their entire market.

Will we be able to obtain a physical version of the game? As well as the collector's edition and those peweter figures?

I am going to pre-order it from Future Shop here with the pre-order figurine, and then the 2 with the collector's edition. But if all that comes with the Triton pre-order then I would rather do that. But most likely not, which is the biggest boon to online distribution.

I gave in a pre-order at Best Buy last week. With something like this, I'd rather walk in and pick it up.

Plus, I'm a sucker for those pewter figurines.

I've done a 180 on Triton, well maybe a 165...
They now let you play offline, and let you backup your game install directory to an optical disk. Good enough for me. I don't care for packaging or a manual for an FPS, and I was loathe to pay $60 bucks to get a single DVD install. This solves the problem, no disks at all. The Triton interface looks like a Jr. High School clas sproject, but it's functional enough. I bought Prey via the Triton website, downloaded the installer, and logged into my user account. There was Prey Preload in the "My Games" section. It's pre-loading right now, and if it unlocks on schedule, then I'm happy.

I'm going for the 360 verson anyway but does this Triton stuff work outside of the USA? There's no explicit mention as far as I can see but on the sign-up page there is a "Country" field so it looks promising.

Was Triton formerly that GameXtreme thing? Didn't know they changed the name.

How does patching work with this Triton thing? Can you use a retail patch with it or do you have to wait for them to somehow integrate and stream it to you?

The website has said the same thing for a while and you can't start pre-loading yet.