Probably because FO:NV was a worldwide sales record seller. There's enough demand for 0-hour download it would slam their network.

Stat. holiday people cause of Presidents day, no one worked yesterday so you're going to be waiting till maybe 9AM EST likely.

FYI, Everyone I know had to work, it's entirely possible Steam/Valve doesn't observe presidents' day. Here's hoping!

Today was Family Day here in Canada.

That's what pre-loading is for.

Well, its coming up on 1 AM and nothing. Looks like I'm not playing this tonight.

I know, I'm Canadian... And I never even heard about Family Day until today! I worked every single one of them so far.

It's only observed in some provinces, Alberta for sure, but not British Columbia for example

Hey its Up for the USA! 11:55 PM its only 100.2 MB D/L! sweet! just bought mine!


err correction now it say D/L "7,381.7 MB" what the heck?

wow it got to 202 MB them the bandwidth dropped to 0 KB's

sheesh at this rate it will take 4 hours, why is it dling 7 gigs of info? i bought the game on DVD from gamestop.

UPDATE:

well at some point the download said "suspended" and a box said ready to play but it was updating in the back ground

so i switched to offline mode fired it up and sure enough it loaded, playing a new character and the new level 2 perks are all there... sweet night gang


UPDATE 2:

just went back online and it wasn't D/L any update but its playing fine, weird

Just noticed it was available in the CST timezone. Just bought it and have the same issues as others noted, a 7GB download.

Love how people are [censored]ing that a DLC doesn't release right at midnight, and expecting a totally seamless launch at that. If the seller of the DLC [censored]s up, its not Bethesda's fault. Stop saying stupid [censored] about how the PC is an afterthought and bla bla bla. If that was true, they would be pulling a dike move like Need For Speed and not releasing any DLC at all.

There is an update to FO:NV proper AS WELL AS the DLC it seems.

I got a 7 gig patch download that rapidly turned into "updating Fallout: New Vegas" and "Downloading Fallout: New Vegas Dead Money (DLC)" progress bars both appearing.

Saw a post on the Nexus somewhere (chat, maybe?) that said it looks like a 7gb dl but stops at like 324 MB and you then have the .esp.

Mine didn't split.

My download suspended at about 441 MB. I clicked the pause button, and then it said the download was done. Bug is the same as what some other poster described.

Yup, I can confirm this; it think's it's re-DLing the entire game but stops at 324 MB, and then you get the .esp.

Woot!

at least on steam you can find it on the psn website nobody said anything on it ,its weird

Well, I started up steam saw it advertised and went to it, not sure if I will get it now or check out bestbuy and get a hard copy since I have the cash on hand not sure about on the card.

Only beef I have is I wish steam would damn fix that constant imputting your age in every time. Wtf if you set up your age in your profile it should remember it.

Correction apparently its not on hard copy cause no local store even has it listed for the consoles.

I bought it. It down loaded the sound bsa. Then quit and hasn't downloaded any thing else for three hours.

Restart Steam.

10€ for a DLC? o_O
10€?
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Here's my thought process:

1) Buy Dead Money
2) Load up the game; get the infamous menu bug and I'm thinking... huh...
3) Open up LOST, see that the Dead Money .esm is present, activate it.
4) Tried starting New Vegas again and it does the 7gb dl and I'm thinking to myself.. "You have to got be kidding.."
5) Then I realize, "Oh snap! My data folder! MUST PRESERVE!"
6) Turns out it's 11 gb's and I'm just like... "Please don't delete that.."
7) See this post:

8) Myself: "Oh well" and cancels the copy.

Download was done for me at 347.0 MB on the dot. Maybe I'll copy my data folder anyways one day.

Still have no DLC's available... Moreover, i have no patch, no achievements from Dead Money at list, and my link to game leads to app/22490 which have redirect to app/22380. I have no notification that i already have this game. Link http://store.steampowered.com/app/72730/ which looks like must lead to DLC page have redirect to app/22380. WTF? Again [censored] territorial restrictions?

Opened steam today, bought it, and it downloaded in 2-5 minutes, so whatever problems you had earlier has been fixed it seems.

This occured at 11:40 22 February 2011

Steam works in mysterious ways, grasshopper :blink:

The announcement that it was available linked back to the Main Game file.
After about an hour (give or take) the "BUY" links became available
There was never an indication of file size for me and the download completed even before the progress bar started (about 5 min)
After firing up the game Steam insisted on updating FalloutNV,exe—even though I had the latest (352) version.
Despite claiming to download it, the exe file remained the same,

Everything seems to work.

Could someone explain to me how to get the DLC. Do I have to buy it online from steam via credit card. Are there points cards at Best Buy, Wallmart, etc.? I can't figure out how to get it, id perfer to buy it w/o buying it online.

PS: Its a really stupid move to REQUIRE PC users to buy things with Steam.

No, it's not.
This DLC is a mere 350MB of data. It's unrealistic to pretend they'll release it on a disk.
Buying from Steam is easy: just click to "Add to cart" and follow the instuctions. You will be required to give your credit card number.