The long awaited launch of Black Prophecy in North America has finally arrived, but as far as launches goes, it’s a mess. Wanting to download the client and hop into the pilots seat I headed over to the NA game client download page where I was surprised to see not one download file, but six, four of which are 1.5 GB in size. Umm, isn’t it the developers job to bundle the client into an easy to download and install file?
Most clients today are only a few megs which then download and install the full game for you. Why do I have to sit here and download 6 files myself? I didn’t get to the install yet, but I sure as hell hope I’m not going to have to sit here an click next when it goes from file to file.
The third file in the pack is also is a dead link, so even when I finish downloading 4.5 Gb files, I’ll have to wait and come back later to get the last 1.5 Gb file.
Definitely not a smooth launch as I feel like the solar winds have been taken out of my sails. Anyway, I’ll have about 30 mins until these files finish downloading and hopefully by then gamigo will fix the broken link so I can get the last file.
It is sad. This is the same way they had you install during the EU beta. I had hoped they would fix that. Even funnier is that the bad link is the same that was a bad link during the beta thta they had to fix afterwards. Oh well. I have it downloaded and installed (they fixed the link later) and I look forward to getting back into the game tonight.