Yes, mine took about three hours. I'm not sure what our internet speed is, but I know it's the lowest you can get. Just one more reason why I prefer getting the disk versions when it comes to games.

Anyway, I just finished the demo, and I was really impressed! I can't wait to play the full game now!

With this game, Gray Matter, the rest of The Silver Lining and some other games coming out, 2010 looks like it's going to be an excellent year for adventure games.

Carla, I would imagine your on 20Mb. Dont BT have monthly usage limits?

Kjos with 10Mbit the max download speed I get is around 1200KB/s (which is pretty much full speed). Not that the demo downloaded at full speed:-) I think it varied between 600 - 800.

mj2c, I don't get mine to download that fast. It all depends what site you download from. I downloaded Lost Horizon and all I could get 250 MB/s. That is slow.
Just bought and downloaded it from Gamersgate. big game 4.02 GB. Download speed 450 KB/s.
3 hrs and 40 sec.
Richard

I guess I am, and I haven't got any limits, I'm on BT high option though, I have to say that I never had a problem with them

Enjoyed the demo.

downloaded this morning - took about an hour and a half, but now it's stuck on 'verifying'. estimated time say 1 second, but it lies - stuck there for 20 minutes so far.

anyone else have this problem? I don't want to cancel it and start all over again

big sigh

Janice

I just finished the demo and it's definitely one I plan to buy.

Does anyone know if the game will only be available via the Internet or will it - someday - be in a store; such as Best Buy, GameStop, etc.?

It seems that less and less adventure games are being sold in stores or, if they are, it takes forever. In fact, the last time I was in GameStop they had barely one shelf of PC games and Best Buy is devoting less space for PC games also.

If this trend continues, in my humble opinion, I think someday all PC games will have to be bought on line.

Robert

Hopefully more and more games will be available that way as it is easier for developers to sell direct and avoid having to rely on marketing or rather non marketing for money as used to be the case. Certainly games like machinarium that might have been considered a bit wierd and not been able to get financial interest have gone it alone and we get to reap the benefits by getting a more varied type of game. As long as they are cheap enough I will happily buy downloads, as I used to buy hard copies then sell it worked out about £5.00 per game so I am looking to pay as close to that as possible so I can feed my habit!!

I played and finished the demo. It was excellent. I found it to be very easy. Thanks for the info and the link to the demo Carla.

Cathy

Hi Cathy,it's gets a lot harder. What a great game I'm stuck on chapter 4 now.
Richard

Very nice demo - love the settings and the art. Very glad to hear it gets harder to!

I though am wanting a disk. I pay for a LOL 3 MB connection and the most I get in 'real life' is a 0.97MB download speed. When I called to complain that I should only be paying the 1.5MB rate they changed it and amazingly my download speed was cut in half to 0.48MB. So back to paying the full amount. Ah the price to pay for living out in the country with no neighbors around and what a wonderful company I have to deal with as well, as they know they are the only provider in the area.

This demo downloaded at 178KBs and took an hour and seven minutes. At least I am not capped as some are but at this speed I could run 24x7 and have no reason to fear!

I hope Dave can grab a few of these if they ever make it to disk as I will be purchasing this game for sure in that format.

Congrats to all who were involved in creating this adventure for us to enjoy. Well made, well made indeed!

P.S. Can you come over and run our POS internet providers for us as well as you created this game?

I agree and for me that's saying a lot. Beautiful game and the voice acting is some of the best I've heard in a long time. The story seems pretty run of the mill, but sucking me in regardless, and for once I actually like the main character.

And it's only 20 bucks! First day buy for me.

"Can you come over and run our POS internet providers for us as well as you created this game?"

Believe me, RNL, you don't have to live at the back end of nowhere. I get, best speed, 340 kbps with the DSL I have now from a major provider in a major US city, which they tell me is the best they're going to do for me.

Anyhow, I thoroughly enjoyed the demo for Lost Horizon...what great voice acting!...but like you, I'll wait for the disk version and I also hope Dave gets it. If you're reading Dave, just a little encouragement. <g>

Gil.

Which would translate to less than 13 quid which is indeed a good price. Unfortunately the price we (in UK) have to pay is £20:-(, unless anyone knows different:-)

Play.com got it for £ 14.99 with free shipping