Update Congestion

[Komori]

Problem is not all of us are on the PC. I'm using XBOX.

I thought I was in the clear but it stopped and restarted after I got to 1217 files. Now patch.txt is giving trouble again.

[Jerbob]

How is it even possible for this to be such an issue? It's an embarrasment to everyone concerned, not least of all us for playing a game that is obviously so badly supported. I've not actually managed to download a single file yet.

I've got an image in my head of a single overworked server from the mid 1990s in the centre of a completely chaotic scene; SE's four FFXI employees are screaming and running around with their hands over their eyes, tripping over cat5 cables and colliding with metre high stacks of 720k floppy disks as magnetic tape spools whirr furiously overhead and literally kilobytes of data are transferred per second through a single, overworked ISDN line. In the corner a small twitching man flails hopelessly with a telephone switchboard-type construct, desperately trying to plug each FFXI user into a new port for every file they attempt to download.

Don't be angry if your download cuts out half way through. Think of the poor file switchboard man.

[Jeubond]

Ok, now I'm getting peeved, I have limited time to play each day & now by the time I update, if at all today, it will be too late, it's already nearly 6pm here in the UK.
As a disabled person the one joy I have in life, sad as it may seem, are my jobs & friends in FFXI so thanks SE, you really made my day & sure know how to build confidence in your products, FFIV ? You have got to be kidding, once bitten etc . . .
Interesting to note that they have not updated the 'Latest News' section of the official SE website since 13.20GMT [1.20pm] over 4 hours ago & that the 'Live Vana'diel' feed is not available either, just what is going on here ?

What really gets my goat is that the new update has absolutely nothing of any interest to me or anyone that I usually play with on my LS, good job SE, good job . . .

[Randwolf]

Been like this since 2003. What makes you think they're going to do something about it now?

Because I'm an eternal optimist? Actually, I'm usually quite the cynic. But, even if I don't think something will change, it doesn't mean I won't say anything.

[Frankbrodie]

Well I'm down to 588 files to go on my second machine now doing the SE download.
So I should hopefully make it in for 7-pm UK time. Nothing going wrong from now.

That download is confusing me that a few people are referring to.
I downloaded it. And it says on the site "Drag the contents of the zip into C:\Program Files (x86)\PlayOnline\SquareEnix"
Well the contents of the zip is a folder called strangely enough FINAL FANTASY XI.
Which surprise surprise, I already have a folder with the same name in my \SquareEnix folder.

So I am being told to basically overwrite my 10.4GB folder with the downloaded one containing 1509 files totaling 844MB guys?
You must think I was born yesterday :/
What are the actual proper instructions with what to do with this download please?

[lllen]

Finally got past the checking version screen, now locked at 3% preparing update.......omg this is like years ago.

[Komori]

I'm pretty sure if you ask it to be overwritten, it keeps the older files in it, it just adds the newer files...

[Frankbrodie]

I'm pretty sure if you ask it to be overwritten, it keeps the older files in it, it just adds the newer files...

Yes thank you.
Finally read a bit further in the topic on the site with the download and some other doofus like me asked the same question.
Just dropped the folder straight from winzip onto the SquareEnix folder and it merged them.

Now to get it to do the file check.
This is going to be the good bit. Can't get in for love nor money :/

*edit*
yes cheers whoever posted the update download link.
2 mins after finally getting it to do the file check, I'm in ^^

This better be good SE.
I want 1000 free Traverser Stones for this. I mean it

[Demon6324236]

Honestly I'm not sure how some people are supposed to update this, not everyone has 8 hours to sit at their PC/Xbox/PS2 waiting for an update, some people only have hours a day, leaving your platform on for hours on end while your at work or sleeping isn't necessarily a good idea (I'm one to talk -_- my PC hasn't been off for more than a hour or 2 in like 4 months...) and the magical errors that pop up half way through cant be stopped, all in all very sad for some people who are hit badly by this.

[Demon6324236]

Yes thank you.
Finally read a bit further in the topic on the site with the download and some other doofus like me asked the same question.
Just dropped the folder straight from winzip onto the SquareEnix folder and it merged them.

Now to get it to do the file check.
This is going to be the good bit. Can't get in for love nor money :/

*edit*
yes cheers whoever posted the update download link.
2 mins after finally getting it to do the file check, I'm in ^^

This better be good SE.
I want 1000 free Traverser Stones for this. I mean it

*Hands you 1000 Trav stones* Not like I need em, have thousands sittin there... really wish I could make a Azure Traverser Stone, that gives me unlimited time/don't have to zone to add time...