Hey everyone I have recently started blogging about mmo's .http://rasa-danny.blogspot.com/  Thats my link I would really appreciate any feedback you guys have. I think I want to become a game journalist but I really don't have to much writing experience. So yeah tell me what you guys think. 

I want to comment on the first article I saw:

Downloading Games

Isn't it annoying when you register for a new game then find out that in order to download you have to choose from a number of mirror sites. Normally the mirror sites makes you wait about 5 or 10 minutes some of the more popular ones may even make you wait 30. Why WHY! Can you not just give us a direct link like tons of other games do. If you are going to spend tons of money making a game. At least put the download on your own page please that way you don't turn people away because they don't want to wait half an hour just to get the download started.

Now if you really want to become a game journalist what you really need to do is do RESEARCH.

Let me copy past what someone else said, but said it better then I probebly will......

Originally posted by Torik: As far as the use of FilePlanet goes that's really them just offloading the cost of bandwith and download servers to a company that specialized in that kind of activity. When the beta starts the servers are flooded with people trying to download the client. That kind of spike will bring down most servers that are not designed for that kind of activity. SInce it is a temporary spike, there is no value in investing in the architecture to manage it so the next best move is to outsorce it to someone whose business it is to deal with these issues.

Even though it's about a beta, it does apply's to your topic aswell.

So do you really want gamecompany's to spend  even more money to maintain such servers for either beta/demo's/trials? 

Also if you really into games you can always sign up on one of the gaming websites that will offer you faster downloads.

If you yourself choose to get a mirror download then it is your choice and simply understand and be thankfull to get something for free even though it might take some time longer.

Have you even considered or even remember how much longer it took in the past to get decent download speed for games that where offered thru official website's?