Kinda strange why helping people with an alternate way to get the files would be considered a bad thing??  In about 5 minutes I've gotten about 20% of the download.  Problem now is that nobody seems to have more of the files....

Torrent, superly easy way to get a virus/trojan etc.. my guess is that this site doesn't want to be held responsible for that liability.

not saying it's a bad idea, just answering your question with my opinion. :)

Originally posted by ethion

Kinda strange why helping people with an alternate way to get the files would be considered a bad thing??  In about 5 minutes I've gotten about 20% of the download.  Problem now is that nobody seems to have more of the files....

 

Torrent is great. True. But if someone puts a virus/malware/spyware or just a fake file ? Who will people blame? 

Cryptic is going the safe way: download from us, we cant control what other people do with files not hosted by us or our partners.

Would you do any different?

Originally posted by kal08

Originally posted by ethion

Kinda strange why helping people with an alternate way to get the files would be considered a bad thing??  In about 5 minutes I've gotten about 20% of the download.  Problem now is that nobody seems to have more of the files....

 

 

Torrent is great. True. But if someone puts a virus/malware/spyware or just a fake file ? Who will people blame? 

Cryptic is going the safe way: download from us, we cant control what other people do with files not hosted by us or our partners.

Would you do any different?

cryptic could always put the torrent up.... However in this case the files being shared are not executables but the hogg files.  So the chance of a virus is pretty slim.  I'm guessing the patcher checks the files when figuring out what it needs to patch.

Originally posted by kal08

Originally posted by ethion

Kinda strange why helping people with an alternate way to get the files would be considered a bad thing??  In about 5 minutes I've gotten about 20% of the download.  Problem now is that nobody seems to have more of the files....

 

 

Torrent is great. True. But if someone puts a virus/malware/spyware or just a fake file ? Who will people blame? 

Cryptic is going the safe way: download from us, we cant control what other people do with files not hosted by us or our partners.

Would you do any different?

I can understand asking to stop discussion of torrent on their forums for liability reason. I don't understand. Them demanding people to take down the torrents. =/

The problem is, we aren't downloading from cryptic , are we. We are jumping through the firey hoops of Fileplanet, and now all of a sudden the first client doesn't work, so now people are expected to download from file planet again? oo it gets better, over 500,000 people are queued in the fileplanet public download section with wiat times of 3 hours..... wait wait, I know, ill just get a fileplanet subscription to speed up my download... anyone notice a pattern here ?

This is the become all to familar , and I am sick of fileplanet, and any game company who used them exclusively like champions online, is automatically scratched off my list of games to even consider buying.

Nobody would even care about things like torrents if the patcher worked....

Torrents are a fantastic way to download files. 

They aren't any more dangerous than any other method of transferring files, if you know what you're doing. 

Just got to make sure you have all your ducks in a row.

Antivirus: Avast!

Firewall: Comodo

Firewall assist: PeerGuardian2

Isolator: Sandboxie

Antispy; Spybot Search and Destroy

Cleaner/optimiser: CrapCleaner

These are all the free ones I can think of off the top of my head. 

Avast is crap.

I use AVG, it has way more features and is a lot better at automation in scanning and updating.

Seriously, I don't give a crap about viruses, trojans, etc.  I can handle all that.  There are a bazillion torrents out there that are distributing files without any problems.  The gaming population is savvy enough to figure out whether a torrent is legit or not.

I do care about Cryptic torturing me with their crappy patching process and forcing me to waste hours babysitting their patching...and still failing.

I've used both and just prefer Avast! cause it seems to catch bugs faster than AVG.  I've good things from both though so I'm not knocking AVG at all...

Here's a AVG vs. Avast! review for you to browse if you're curious :

http://www.hwdot.com/avast-home-or-avg-free-antivirus-whichs-better-to-protect-windows-xp-vista/

There was a torrent running with the pigg files downloaded already, but cryptic asked the seeder to take it down and he did.