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Re: Broken Sword 5 1/2 off on steam today 4/5

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From: Mary
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 17:14
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"mick" <coughcough@privacy.com> wrote in message 
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>>Hi Mick, did you get Broken sword 5? How do you like it?
>
> Yes I played it when it first came out. I really enjoyed it. Wished
> at the time it hadn't been split in two but never mind.
>
>>Haven't seen you here for a long time, not since this group used to be so 
>>busy and adventure games coming out often. I used to be able to buy new 
>>games at computer stores near me, but as adventure games became less 
>>popular, sometimes a friend in the U.S. would send me a new game. But now 
>>its changed again and have to download new games.
>
> I still read but don't post much on any newsgroup these days.

>> Its more convenient in some ways, but not so good in others for me at 
>> least. I have a cap on downloading and its slow as I only have Lite high 
>> speed. I downloaded Broken sword 5 from Steam and it took about 3 hours.
>
> Internet speeds are probably one of the area where we surpass what you 
> have in the US.
> I'm on VM cable, on their lowest package which is 30mb (which goes up to 
> 50mb in the next
> few weeks) and theyve recently dropped all of their traffic management 
> (throttling ) for downloads.
> So downloading BS5 only took a few mins, if that:-)

A few minutes?? Is that all? That's amazing. but as I said my download took 
a long time because I only have "Lite" high speed. regular high speed is too 
expensive at my provider.. Is VM cable regular high speed, or ultra high 
speed? there are different speeds and different amounts to pay on my 
provider and most Internet providers would be much the same I think.

I am not in the US. I'm in Canada - a much better country :>) You might 
remember in the old days here I used to complain about some adventure games 
on Amazon.com I think it was being available in the U.S. for sale which I 
couldn't find in Canada but Amazon.com would not ship to Canada. You had the 
same problem in the UK at the time. Now we can download them as long as you 
watch your "caps" :)

I am getting into the game in BS5. I like it ok. it reminds me of the 
earlier BS games.

Mary 


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Subject: Re: Broken Sword 5 1/2 off on steam today 4/5
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