Ahh... It was nice of Sony to entice me with a free month of Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. I mean, I've been wanting a trial of the thing for ages to see how it's evolved since beta, but they're not interested in that, I guess, so I've had to quench my curiousity with other games. How do I like it since beta?

I have no idea. Sony Station has changed absolutely not at all since I played Star Wars: Galaxies all those years ago, shortly after Ubisoft canned Uru Live. The Station, back then, was riddled with connection errors and freezes and a service so ancient that it didn't support resumeable downloads. Well, it looks like they've got the resumeable download part down, but when you have to download a multi-gigabyte program entirely from online, you really start to feel the connection problems... It won't just stop and restart, it will STALL. Right in the middle of a 12 hour queue. You start it up when you head to bed, and when you wake up the next morning, you find out that it's stalled out and you still have 11 hours left to go. It'll just sit there on the same file, not doing anything... No connection activity whatsoever... And use all its energy to re-estimate how long it'll take to get the file that it's NOT getting. When you wake up and see 90 hours, you know it's broken.

Then, when you finally get through the 12 hours of files? It scans itself to make sure everything's there before promptly beginning to download another 12 hours of files. Everyone was upset when Sony got directly involved with Vanguard at the beginning, and I can understand it perfectly.

But here's to an uneventful 6 hours of download time while I sleep...

This entry was posted on Sunday, June 29th, 2008 at 12:21 am and is filed under General.