So I bought a physical copy tonight and I had the steam download bug but managed to find a workaround in this thread. (Thanks btw)

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1257135-steam-download/

however it wanted me to verify my game cache and it has been doing so for about 35-40 minutes now and its only at 71%. I was just wondering if this is normal for verifying cache? It seems to be taking an insane amount of time. Thanks.

bump. Should I even need to do this?