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#1 May 20 2009 at 4:49 PM Rating: Decent
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Alright so I'm a brand new player downloading the trial as we speak. So since I haven't downloaded the trial yet I am yet to play. I figured I'd try and ask the question before I download the whole game and find out that I won't be able to run it.

My question is about the internet connection. Now I have a satallite DSL hook up. The reason I have satallite is because where I live it's the only high speed I can get. Anyway...my question is this "Does the game itself take a lot of Download MB to run?"

The reason that I ask this is because with a satallite comes FAP or "Fair Access Policy". FAP is suppose to make it so one person can't just suck up all the Download and allow for nobody else to get any. So with that said, I am allowed 350 MB a day in download. If I go over this you become FAPed which causes your internet to become extremely slow, I mean slower than dial up slow, to the point you can't even load a webpage for 24 hours until your FAP time is over after the 24 hour period. So I was just wondering if anybody knew if the game took a lot of Download MB to play, I have played WoW for a long period of time and I know that WoW takes hardly any and that I don't even have remotely a problem with that game. However, I have tried EQ2 and that game I have had a problem with.

Could somebody please help me out and let me know if the game sucks up a lot of Download MB to run/play?

Thanks for reading, and thanks in advance for your responses.
#2 May 21 2009 at 11:17 AM Rating: Good
As far as I know, most of the content is located on your hard drive and the bulk of the data transmitted between your system and the game servers is instructions.

That said, the initial game download itself does run into several GB of data so with your tight bandwidth restriction, it may not be the best way for you to go...
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