I assume that Bethesda are allowing those involved in the beta test this weekend to have access to the current game client which roughly ~20Gb but at a rate of 250kbps I'll not be finished for another 7 days lol.

I'm not the only one who has this issue and it's kind of an ironic catch 22 that their "Stress Test" should kick off in this fashion.

FYI I got the invite early morning AU time today. Timing much.

Don't buy immediately and try to get a second generation console so they've worked out any potential RRoD failures like DJSAV_101 said. In saying that, I did pay ridiculous amounts for my 360 back on launch and I too recall paying over AU$600 for my original PS1 with 1x controller and just the demo disc lol. So yeah it's nothing new to people who purchase consoles.

There's nothing wrong with a good refresh.  Nvidia has a history of putting out some very solid cards at decent prices in refresh cycles.  

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