Update Congestion

[Kaisha]

It's been 10 years and people still get mad over this?

Either camp POL and update the files right when the option becomes available during maintenance, or wait until the next day if you can't stand the POL-1160 message spam.

[Dragoy]

Yeah, as I mentioned somewhere above, I usually don't have these issues. Being in Europe, this obviously means I most likely initiate the update either after the majority has already done it, or before they get to it, but I have done it often during any prime time just as well.

Most often I start the update nearly as soon as it is possible, so that's another thing fer sure that 'gets one in'. The update today started around midnight for me, so I was not up and around to spy on the 'Play' button to jump in a.s.a.p. to get it going.

Right now it seems it's more or less dropping people from establishing new connections until the congestion dies down a little. Even though it is a matter that is not on-going all the time, due to the fact that they changed their ways a little in that they're releasing updates more often, even if smaller in general, these issues become more and more apparent with more frequent updates.

Even if it's monthly, they're probably not going to touch it at this point. It's probably some kind of a monster, that no one really should go poke at all or that will be the only thing they can do for a year or two to fix!

I've got the patience, though, and I'm not even playing much these days so I'm not mad. I am, however, amused. ^^

[Reiterpallasch]

Minus the congestion cockblock in POL, the whole update took all of ~5 minutes.

Yet another reason to play on PC.

[Rerrer]

Minus the congestion cockblock in POL, the whole update took all of ~5 minutes.

Yet another reason to play on PC.

I play on a PC, with the fastest connection I can get here in Atlanta, GA... it has nothing to do with what you play on and how good your internet is when it comes to these issues... if it did, Playonline would not have a statement out about congestion.

[Demon6324236]

Minus the congestion cockblock in POL, the whole update took all of ~5 minutes.

Yet another reason to play on PC.

I want whatever you got cause I never take only 5 minutes...

I'm on PC... I started it, waited for 6 hours, came back to having 15 minutes left, then it craped out on me... yay~ T_T

[Dazusu]

If I ever quit this game, it will be just prior to an update. Surely with all the brain power over there, S/E could figure out a way to make it so updates aren't a humongous cluster.

Please fix this. It's a disaster every time. And, I have to babysit the download because I never know at which point it will conk out.

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

[Kaisha]

Minus the congestion cockblock in POL, the whole update took all of ~5 minutes.

Yet another reason to play on PC.

You're under the reliance of someone else to update first though to provide you the files. Would be the same case for PS2 users who do have hard drive file access.

360 users though? They're boned.

[Reiterpallasch]

You're under the reliance of someone else to update first though to provide you the files. Would be the same case for PS2 users who do have hard drive file access.

360 users though? They're boned.

Well that link was posted last night (11:42pm est), so they're generally very fast about it. You'll have the update done before the servers are live.

[Reiterpallasch]

And for those who don't care to navigate the site itself, you can almost always find a link directly to it via Guildwork, FFXIAH, even Allakhazam.

[Stan64]

It's the new error 37 from Diablo III.