Australian Steam users have to re-download Borderlands

Posted Oct 28th 2009 9:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, FPS, Borderlands

Earlier this week we reported that the Steam version of Borderlands had accidentally allowed its Australian users access to a "low violence" of Gearbox Software's shooter game via a pre-load. Since the game hasn't been officially released this technically wasn't that big of an issue at the time

Games On Net now reports that publisher 2K Games has fixed the problem but there's a hitch. Those Australian players who want the full unedited version of the game must now delete what they downloaded before and then pre-load the title all over again. That means a file of 8 gigs must be downloaded. For folks who have an ISP in that country with a bandwidth cap that could mean some real trouble.

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Tags: 2k-games, borderlands, gearbox-software, steam

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Er?

I pre-ordered the game last week; when we had the mess-up with the release dates here, I was able to get my copy activated following the instructions of a now-deleted thread on Steam showing how to go through a US proxy. Also following the instructions, they said you can get around the low-violence mess-up by forcing Steam to verify the game's integrity. I did so, it downloaded a new chunk of files (no where near 8 gigs, it was finished in about 10 minutes and that was going through a slow proxied connection) and I've been playing the game fine since.

I don't know what the difference is between the "low violence" and "regular violence" versions. Certainly the game doesn't seem too much in either spectrum for me though.

If the trick on the forums worked then I don't really understand how you would need to download the entire game if what was replaced constituted a few megabytes max. Surely Gearbox/2K Games can flag those files to be replaced, the same way any other company has been able to send patches for releases on Steam forever. Unless somehow I've been playing some edited version all this time and didn't even realize it.Posted at 12:07PM on Oct 28th 2009 by Joshua Meadows

"For folks who have an ISP in that country with a bandwidth cap that could mean some real trouble."

I have a better idea - show me an ISP here that doesn't hve a bandwidth cap.

8 gigs would be a lot (it's a fifth of my monthly allowance) - but my ISP (Internode) runs an unmetered Steam mirror :).Posted at 7:06PM on Oct 28th 2009 by Slashee the Cow

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