Everybody dies

Well, Defcon is gonna be released in approximately 34 minutes from when I satrted typing this entry. As it satnds right now, it looks like so: the Introversion online store is down.

Due to unprecedented demand on our store web server. Unfortunately this has overloaded the system, so we have temporarily disabled the store.

DEFCON Keys will be emailed to you at 18:00 GMT which is 19:00 BST in London, UK.

We will be re-enabling the store shortly.

So, we get cd keys and then hopefully we can download. How is another matter. As it stands, someone over at PLN suggested p2p software, which I'm guessing is a possibility. I'm also kinda banking on a large number of mirrors popping up, although I don't really see that being feasible to be totally honest.

Funny really. this actually reminds me a bit of the Doom release back in December 93. Sorta. It got uplaoded to a filespace ready for distribution. There were 151 users allowed on the filespace, and 151 connected with the rather brilliant result that id couldn't connect. When they eventually did, and uplaoded it, so many gamers connected and downlaoded they crashed the server. Brilliant. Now, i aint saying that's what'll happen here by any means but it'd be pretty damned impressive if it did.

Makes you wonder really. Digital distribution's been around for years. Almost 13 years ago it was problematic, and today it still is. This is gonna be something special. Only question right now that I can see is how are they gonna handle it? Because evidently just making it direct download from the online store aint gonna work, as we've already seen. Maybe they'll email us a downlad url with the cd key or something, who knows?

And of course I'll be sure to make some sort of cynical comment if it isn't the msot revolutionary, mind-blowing idea ever. Like launching us all our own personal copy attached to a disarmed nuclear missile, say!