Who else has started pre-loading The Sims 4?

I snooped around the pre-loaded files using S4PE, found some interesting tidbits that'll surely tide me over until Tuesday.

Judging by what I had seen... Tuesday can NOT seem to figure out a way to arrive a lot faster.

LOL I did....I was hoping for a mistake and enter into the game...WRONG! not to the 2nd lol

Man I hope this preload holds up. I'm going to turn into a raging bear if I have to download again. Apparently my download speed is very slow and I am still downloading since last night. 8% to go. On the bright side the preload was an awesome idea, especially for those of us with slower internet.

LOL!!! I just knew that that there was a governor in the code!!! But I know I am not bright enough to find it without destroying something in the process. I can just see you hacking away it, coming from all angles, wedeling in hoping to crack it. Minutes turning into hours. Sweat dropping off your brow. And THEN?????!!!!!.......Did you get it to work?

I thought more stuff would be available with the pre-load

Nope, Pre-load just downloads the game to your computer.

Getting the disc. Drat you ,slow internet connection.

If you don't mind me asking, where are you living (Country? Rural/Urban?) I have basically the slowest cable internet I am allowed to purchase (12 Mbps) and the game still downloaded within an hour. Unless you are running dial up or have an unfortunately poor DSL connection, I'd think the game would preload just fine prior to the launch time. --That said if you are on a strict data cap for whatever reason, then it makes no sense to download the game

unfortunately I have to wait later until after the release to get my copy, money troubles and all. but it's cool because I need to see some reviews before I buy the game.

Oh don't get me started on that. I had to spend my money for new text books and a phone (College bound tehe) and now I have to wait until november or even christmas until I get the game but oh well. At least i will get some reviews out of it

While internet itself is not a "limited" resource, bandwidth is. Data caps try to alleviate this problem indirectly by stopping users who use excessive amount of data (which in turn means they are using up more of the network's limited bandwidth for larger periods of time. Comcast and many others have a "soft cap" of 250GB. It really should never be an issue for people who aren't pirating movies/games en masse.

I understand why they do this, and it does make sense, but I wish they would come up with a more elegant solution to the problem, because, as you said, internet (itself) is not a limited resource. It's not like gas or electricity where once it's consumed, it's consumed. The second you stop using said bandwidth it becomes instantly available for someone else.