No preload period according to Trion support staff.

[MacDeath]

Ahh Thank You, thats right. I remember now. I had the Early Access pass. The Rift launch seems so long ago lol.

It was 25 months ago that Rift went live. Fun times. Mac had a bit over 7K posts on the RIFT forums PRIOR to launch. Then I became busy playing the game and stopped posting.

[MacDeath]

if you have the beta client
its cool
you can use beta clients data to save some time..
the trick is once you start the download the actual game close your launcher
get the game data files from beta and copy them to release folder..
than start back the launcher..
in theory this way dsl users can save some time..
i will test this once the game release..

That approach worked migrating from Beta to Alpha. It SHOULD work moving from Beta to Live as well.

BUT, it needs to be well documented so the players who aren't rocket surgeons or brain scientists can do it without hopelessly fubaring their systems.

[Corun]

Wow, I just deleted my beta after I preordered from Steam thinking that no dev company could be that stupid to not do a preload before launch...

[ZEBUCITY]

That approach worked migrating from Beta to Alpha. It SHOULD work moving from Beta to Live as well.

BUT, it needs to be well documented so the players who aren't rocket surgeons or brain scientists can do it without hopelessly fubaring their systems.

For those who don't know, "rocket surgeon" is the politically correct name for rocket engineer.

[atlantix]

That approach worked migrating from Beta to Alpha. It SHOULD work moving from Beta to Live as well.

BUT, it needs to be well documented so the players who aren't rocket surgeons or brain scientists can do it without hopelessly fubaring their systems.

yes i also used same method in order to migrate from beta to alpha..
saved me a lot of download time.. =)
i do not wish to prepare a guide before i test the method with release client..
i don't wanna misdirect if it doesn't work with release client.. =)

[Airwolf3169]

Those of us that sat in Que's waiting to get into the game. for the Beta 3. I sure as hell hope that doesn't happen. Imagine being stuck in a que behind some person who has some ancient pc. who can barely get it to load. and then is using DSL to do the download.

[Fros7bite]

I see no reason for a Steam preload. I really hope this works out.

[Pastryfighter]

If you're smart, you can get the live client patcher and start downloading now.

[EdgeTW]

If you're smart, you can get the live client patcher and start downloading now.

No guarantee that it's going to actually work come launch, though. :/

[Pastryfighter]

No guarantee that it's going to actually work come launch, though. :/

Nope, but it's worth a few gigs of bandwidth to see