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Wasteland 2 and GoG

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From: Peter Huebner
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 01:45
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I am pissed off, I really am.

I decided to get my copy of Wasteland 2 from GoG ... got my key, 
registered it, downloaded the game. With some problems, because one 
of the 4GB files had to be downloaded twice.

Ho hum, installed and played. Patched at the beginning of October.

Now it's November. Patch 3 is out! Downloaded, tried to apply patch. 

Nope. This patch does not work with your installation of the game.

WfF.  No help from inExile's forums. 

Ok, so the installer on GoG now is a different version (I can only 
surmise that if patch 2 was still available, I might have been able to 
do an incremental patch ... but it's not to be found).

So, the installer downloaded for the new version, the  first binary and 
the third binary downloaded. The 2nd  binary? Not so much. It gets close 
to 3 GB and it breaks. 3 times so far. 

What a fscking waste of my time and bandwidth. Not only eating my data 
allowance, but tying up my computer for days and nights, since GoG is 
serving up the data at speeds that  vary between 23 and 240kB/sec. 

God damn. I know Steam can also be very slow, but this really is taking 
the cake. 

I am not happy, and I can only advise against using GoG for buying this 
game, drm free or not.

-Peter
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From: Peter Huebner <p.w.huebner@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic
Subject: Wasteland 2 and GoG
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:45:07 +1300
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