Reports Claim Borderlands 3 Will Not Be Preloadable
It is a common practice for digital storefronts like Steam to facilitate a preload period ahead of a game’s release, so that the minute it goes live, hot-to-trot fans can dive face-first into it instantly rather than having to wait for it to download. (It also aids in keeping those hot-to-trot fans from demolishing servers as they all attempt to download it at precisely the same moment.) For the upcoming Borderlands 3, however, that’s not going to be a possibility. Support for preloading of file released What’s amazing in this is that Enable Pre-loading is actually marked as being enabled in the EGS roadmap on Trello, which states that Epic released pre-load functionality to 3rd party games on the store in May. So what’s the deal? Epic boss Tim Sweeney labelled the situation as complicated. We’ve released support for file preloading which is adequate for specific games, but we aren’t sure as it’s up to the demands of a chartbuster like Borderlands, he exclaimed in a tweet. But ...