SO GTA V retail requires a 5GB day 1 update. Rockstar, are you f**king kidding me!??

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So I'm still waiting for my retail copy of GTA V (Thanks a lot, GamesTheShop), and now i'm hearing at forums, that even after taking ages, R* is NOT delivering the whole game in the retail box, but instead it has a mandatory 5GB patch! *support.rockstargames.com/hc/commu...203273778-gta-v-pc-retail-day-one-patch-size-. So, after selling millons of copies, R* couldn't fork up the cash for a 8th Dvd to include the patch!? Also, users are reporting that the rockstar warehouse bullsh*t that ships with the game is downloading the patch at an avg of 30-40 kbps- and pausing every minute or so. We can only guess what the condition in India may be.

Now my problem is, I don't have a connection at home (where my main pc is) doesn't have a good enough connection to actually download the patch (And I'm sure as hell not going to stay up all night clicking pause and resume) so I'm looking for another way to download the patch. So far the possibilities I've thought about are-

1. Downloading the retail preload torrent , and activating it with my serial
2. Install the game on my laptop, then downloading the patch with my college WiFi, go back home, install in the main PC, overwrite the files with files from my laptop.

What do you guys think? Can any of these two possibly work??

1st option should work

This is ridiculous! Lets hope rockstar fixes the issue by 17th and we have good speeds atleast.

And I thought only Ubisoft used to do that.

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.jRay. said:
This is ridiculous! Lets hope rockstar fixes the issue by 17th and we have good speeds atleast.

Yeah... Guess should've gone with steam. When is your delivery date btw? Mine is 21st-just ridiculous!

Confused_user said:
Yeah... Guess should've gone with steam. When is your delivery date btw? Mine is 21st-just ridiculous!

Can't find it on GTS. It shows in progress nothing else.

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Amazon is showing 21st... Actually I initially ordered from Flipkart... But it glitched out and started showing delivery at 2017

so I went ahead and ordered it through amazon as well. Where do you live, if you don't mind me asking?

And this is why I prefer Steam for anything. No problems in downloading and patching, flawless.

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But the 60gb download....

Confused_user said:
Amazon is showing 21st... Actually I initially ordered from Flipkart... But it glitched out and started showing delivery at 2017 so I went ahead and ordered it through amazon as well. Where do you live, if you don't mind me asking?

Mumbai. I ordered from gts and it shows 17 as release date. I just hope it will reach to me on 18!

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I dunno why exactly I pre ordered if the game reaches me almost a week late

. Also, the copies should already be in India; don't know what gts is doing

Confused_user said:
But the 60gb download....

Thats the price you have to pay for good service. You can't get everything you want.

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Yeah.. I guess. Can't download through steam though... It slows the whole network down at my hostel... And after a while, I always get kicked out

Exactly! The whole point of preordering is to get the game as soon as it is released.

Confused_user said:
Yeah.. I guess. Can't download through steam though... It slows the whole network down at my hostel... And after a while, I always get kicked out

You can always set the bandwidth limit from settings I guess.

Rockstar policy: " Buy the game... then F**K OFF!"

abhigeek said:
Rockstar policy: " Buy the game... then F**K OFF!"

This is nearly every dev mantra.

If anyone finds out a link to the torrent or something please post. So i can have it ready by the time my game arrives. Or do we need to download using r* installer only?

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Wouldn't a torrent link be removed?

Confused_user said:
Wouldn't a torrent link be removed?

Removed & banned also.

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jRay pm me

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Oh and happy Bengali new year everyone

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Update... Today both Flipkart and gts dispatched my order... Guess now it'll be a race to see who wins

Also, I downloaded a torrent for the retail preload... And rockstar recognized and updated me with the exe... So I guess it'll work

Nice. I didn't download the preload. Lets see what happens. GTS still didn't ship it. Hope it does soon.

Guys, its quite sad that DRM has to reach a point where piracy is the easy way out. Let's try to find a way out for the TS...

[MENTION=127228]Confused_user[/MENTION] :

The best way would be to get in touch with a Wifi cyber cafe, and use ultrasurf as adviced here: *support.rockstargames.com/hc/commu...wnload-For-5gb-Day-One-PC-Patch-GTA-V-?page=2

Second alternative would be to delete the problematic file (keep a backup) that some are claiming increases their speed after deletion.

Thirdly, try this link: Index of /sjaak327_mirror/ (I have no idea if it works or not, but this was found on GTA forums.)

But, if you're thinking about torrent, it should exist first of all. A clean torrent, I have no idea if it exists.

Or you can get in touch with your city's gamers and download once for all of you guys. BTW where the hell is this Steelport? India or abroad, I never heard of it.

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Clean torrents exist. There were a lot of websites that allowed the game to be preloaded using a official torrent... They're still up.

Steelport is the city saints row 3 is set in

Installed GTA V. Download completed without any issues. Had a connection reset once but other than that it was smooth. Getting 220+kbps on my 2mbps connection.

Confused_user said:
Steelport is the city saints row 3 is set in

LOL

Got to play Saints Row 3 I guess.

Anyways, I've started talking with my wallet. The moment I detect any BS by a company, I won't purchase the game. Simple. I didn't get Tomb Raider (new one) either.

EA is one such company which learnt the lesson a hard way, but they're still not ending it. Same for Ubisoft. Making users download huge amounts over internet while falsely claiming the game's internet requirements as "256 kbps connection", making things difficult for users, hiding pre release editions from press review, individual tracking DRM, etc, etc. They've done it all. In an ugly way.

The ugliest was Microsoft's Games for Windows Live or something while installing GTA 4.
I fell in a loop of updating again and again. I updated 4-5 times, but it never let me start the game.
Because Games for Windows live had some bug. I ran GTA IV on probably the 6th or 7th day of my purchase.

So why should I purchase GTA 5? You companies can't make me a customer by giving me problems.
I'd rather play at the shops, where shopkeepers arrange these games anyhow and we just enjoy. They might pirate but that's hardly my business, isn't it?

Now, this game can be renamed Grand Theft (of) Data 5GB.

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Happy to report that it downloaded at avg 700 kbps. Game seems to have a little memory issues though.... Nkticable stuttering on 4gb ram

Confused_user said:
Happy to report that it downloaded at avg 700 kbps. Game seems to have a little memory issues though.... Nkticable stuttering on 4gb ram

I suppose this is noticeable?

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Yeah... Autocorrect...

Guys, check out my new wallpaper against this unnecessary wastage of 5GB data and DRM....

There's nothing wrong in what I did below... considering the trouble I got while installing GTA IV.

*i1370.photobucket.com/albums/ag255/samarth619/Anti%20DRM_zpsx62z2ags.jpg