22.7gb update after relogging?

I am in the same boat as well. I had like a 10 second power outage and I go to log in and boom I am downloading a 22gb file!! This is a bit rediculous!!i hope that SE gets on top of this problem and fixes it quick fast and in a hurry!!! Definitely gonna be a lot of gifts for this muck up!!!

Happened to me last night as well. Spent a good 14 hours re-downloading 22gb. /: I'm probably just not going to log in until this and all the in game problems are solved, especially since I live in a rural area, and power outages happen often and without warning..

I've had several power outages today alone. Hopefully Square addresses this issue soon because it's starting to feel like they've at least ACKNOWLEDGED pretty much every other issue except ours. :/

Same thing happened to me and my cousin. It happened to me yesterday after a power outage. When I tried to login I found out the game was downloading the entire game again: 22.7gb. The worst thing is that my internet speed is just 5mb and I've been downloading it ever since. I can't even turn off my PS4 because the already downloaded files won't be saved and I'd need to re-download them again, believe me, I've tried it. And I can't put my PS4 on rest mode for obvious reasons. I can't play anything else either.

The case with my cousin, he turned off his PS4 after a session of playing time and when he tried to login again, BAM! 22.7gb requiered. I even cancelled my sub because I don't have a clue when I'll be able to play again.

Hasn't happened to me during stormblood ( yet ), but this is definitely not a new issue. I've been affected by the same glitch a few months back and I know others have been getting it long before that. Its by far the worst issue I've personally come across in this game, and I wasn't even hit with a power outage. I got it from simply logging out normally and turning off my PS4. I still don't know what caused it or how to avoid it.

I can handle the other issues, such as DC'ing, congestion, and latency. I even expect that and can be patient with it. What I can't handle is having to re-download the entire game for 14-24 hours straight each time the launcher decides to have a hiccup.

Just seeing this issue escalating with the stormblood release is really making me paranoid to turn on my PS4 and log in tbh.

Power outage and now my PS4 downloading the entire game like others. Just adding myself to the growing list of users with this problem. Be nice if Dev team would at least say they are working on this. I hope the video game press covers this stuff as well because the criticism will be well deserved for this rough Early Launch.

Just had to reinstall due to an error on Thursday, and now I have to do it all over again? Data doesn't grow on trees!

Someone on the JP forums posted this issue too....so maybe they'll at least respond and give us peace of mind.

just happened to me right now due to sudden power outage. I take a look in ps4 storage, nothing changes. yet have to download the whole patches again (twice now)?
Please SE, please

Don't hold your back, been happening to me since the first day of early access, still haven't seen one single response or solution from SE, which is very dissastifying.

I have also been having this issue since the very first morning of early access, all I want are some answers or to know SE is trying to address it.

Yes, I do NOT like SE's silence on this. We're in the dead of summer and it's hot. Brownouts will happen, especially in more rural areas. Bandwidth doesn't grow on trees either to have to keep downloading a 22.7GB patch that apparently doesn't do nor add anything to the game install.

I exit game normal and it happen to me again for 2nd time

I don't like their silence either. It's like they are totally neglecting the console users and satisfying even just the smallest complaints about lag for the pc users. That's what I'm seeing, at least let us know if they acknowledged it, this is by far the worst interaction I've seen between players and devs. And I don't really complain much, but with a problem like this should be something in their priority list. Hey SE! What if I said I'll buy something in the mog station if you entertain these good people with a fix for the problem? Would you help us then?? Ffs.

I'm done. I live up on a mountain so my DLS is slow @ best. SE, expect an email demanding my money back on Monday. The same as others, I was in, playing the game, power went out for a second, go back, big 20 gig d/l. After FORTY! Yes! 40 hours it was down to 500 meg when....THE POWER WENT OUT for a split second. No, I love this game, but it's not worth another 40 hour d/l marathon when you can't even respond to PS4 players!!!

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I'm done. I live up on a mountain so my DLS is slow @ best. SE, expect an email demanding my money back on Monday. The same as others, I was in, playing the game, power went out for a second, go back, big 20 gig d/l. After FORTY! Yes! 40 hours it was down to 500 meg when....THE POWER WENT OUT for a split second. No, I love this game, but it's not worth another 40 hour d/l marathon when you can't even respond to PS4 players!!!

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This is very sad indeed, at this point, I just want someone in the dev team to say even a hello in this thread... this is horrible interaction and a bad set in priorities SE.

Been 29 hours now since I've started the download, still got 2.7GB left to go and am now getting the errors PS4 users have been seeing later when downloading.

SE really needs to fix this problem ASAP or they're going to lose a lot of trust between them and the players. I have contacted them but still no word about it to anyone. Just feels like I've wasted on my money on a broken game at this point and not receiving word from SE is just making it worse.

Can confirm that this has happened to me also. I was in a cutscene in The Azim Steppe when my PS4 turned itself off. When got back to the launcher, the game told me to do a 'first-time setup' of 22.7gb.

We have answers for all other problems: congestion, not battle dutys, small text windown, even ppl wanting the old skill animations and on this problem: nothing. This makes me rly sad... All ppl are stuck on the MSQ, but they CAN PLAY, at least, and my life is downloading the game...

Also had this problem, twice. Power blinked once, then i came back and had to reinstall yesterday. This morning my ps4 acted as though it has lost power, and then I'm downloading again a 2hr file.

This just happened to me. I'm fuming. It was bad enough that I had to delete and reinstall just to get past the errors to patch initially. I shouldn't have to do this every time the power goes out.

Hi, this just happened to me, too. I had to cut the power after my ps4 hanged during the world waiting area. When I got back, it suddenly gave me this 'patch'. My usual speed is 0.15 mbps so it's impossible to download that huge 22k file.

(I know i have the full game installed here -67.32GB, something must be wrong with the patch thingy)

Same thing in France.
( I post here where there is some repport of this problem, and where has there more chance to be heard that on the French section ).

It's a worlwide bug. All PS4 are affected. Why anybody some staff has not still answered, at least to say that they are conscious of the problem and that they work above ??

What is going on I just had to download the entire game 2 days ago and now when I log in it WHAT'S ME TO DOWNLOAD THIS AGAIN 22 - GIGS AGAIN !!! WTH WHAT IS GOING ON AND THE DEVS HAVE NOT EVEN
RESPONDED TO THIS PROBLEM WITH THE PS4 PEOPLE.

One more to toss onto the pile.

No power outage. I haven't even powered off my machine, or put it in standby mode or anything. The last time I played, I logged off properly, closed the application, and now this.

I have no faith in this company. Zero. This expansion was basically me giving them their absolute last shot with this game, and for them to make this monumental of a screw-up on top of all the rest of the crap going on when I could play means that if I download this at their stupid capped rate (I have a 200 Mb/s connection, and it always plateaus at just over 10% that, with the PS4 in DMZ, verified not throttled by my ISP and everything) and for whatever reason this happens again, I'm not giving XIV another chance. Sure, I'm just one angry customer and I'm a piss in the bucket, but I'm not the only person who feels this way, I'm sure. This early access is a dumpster fire.

This is ridiculous! Again the download! I will not play this anymore. I'm done with it. Thank you for non existence support, Square Enix.

Happened to me as well, cat unplugged my ps4 and then I got this stupid 22gb patch notification. Where the hell is SE's PR at? Some communication would be nice.

I checked on my PS4 and only show that i have one expantion: Heavensward. Is like the laucher dont reconise the stormblood and make me download again. I will not do this, I'm really sad right now... I have a fan website about final fantasy xiv, spend days making tutorials and content to help my comunity and I'm rly angry right now... I dont know what to do. I never thoutg to be one of the ppl who spend hours trying to fix a problem, but there i'm. I will not let this topic until i found a answer.

Same here first time happening to me since 2.0 release , just hoping this will not be recurrent

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Same here first time happening to me since 2.0 release , just hoping this will not be recurrent

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I hope not. I'm not playing until they fix this. I'm not gonna spend my time downloading this game all over again.

has this been resolved for anyone yet? this just happened to me (power outtage) and its gonna take 2 hours to download it. same exact patch as OP said they had to re download on PS4

This happened to me during the first day of Early Access and just happened again. Both times power outtages knocked me offline and both times they've asked to do a first time setup and download the entire game again. What did they do to the game directory that it has to do this every time since I assume thats what its going to do from here on out. This was never an issue in Heavensward or in 2.0 for me, and I've gone through multiple power outtages with the game running.

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This happened to me during the first day of Early Access and just happened again. Both times power outtages knocked me offline and both times they've asked to do a first time setup and download the entire game again. What did they do to the game directory that it has to do this every time since I assume thats what its going to do from here on out. This was never an issue in Heavensward or in 2.0 for me, and I've gone through multiple power outtages with the game running.

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Same here for me. I had several power outages during Heavensward but only had to re-download everything once.

Is the current behavior working as the devs intended? Or is it a bug? We really need to know.

I'm currently using a UPS to prevent this from happening again but I do not like the fact a hard reset means 100% re download. This is completely inconvenience for people with slow download speed...

This happened to me now.

When I wake up and turn on the PC, the Steam started downloading the 9Gb then 18GB from Lancher

Hope Square fix this soon.

Just hit me a bit ago. 22.7GB update, estimated time to completion is ~1500 minutes. This is going to take a while.

And no response yet...

I put my PS4 in rest mode and left the app open last night and it didn't make me redownload this time. Temporary fix if you can leave your PS4 plugged in and have no power outages I guess.

I've had power blips and outtages all throughout ARR and Heavensward, and I've never had to redownload the entire thing again except for maybe one time.

It's beyond frustrating to have FINALLY gotten passed the Cold Steel blockade and have this happen, only to be unable to play again for the next 5 hours while the game re-downloads itself.. With all of the weather coming throughout my region the past two weeks and upcoming weeks, it almost makes me hesitant to play until this issue is resolved.

Just happened to me. Got 90k then spent over an hour in the queue. Power went out while I'm queue now I have to download the entire game again. This is absolutely ridiculous.

Same thing here. I've never had this happen to me before all throughout ARR and HW, and power outages are frequent in my rural area. Honestly, I cannot re-download the entire game again, as even this arbitrary patch that pops up estimates it would take 7000 minutes to download, and then it always errors and stops anyway. I haven't even been able to play Stormblood at all yet.

I will likely be calling customer service to try to get my money back on Monday. I paid a ridiculous amount of money for collectors edition early access, played the game for about a day (was just finishing up the last couple 3.5 quests), and this happened to me last night. So my game broke right before Stormblood; didn't even get to try it. I understand that my situation is not common, with my slow rural connection, but the only solution should not be to download the entire thing again and hope it doesn't happen next time...

This is really disappointing and heartbreaking, as I was very excited to play the new expansion. Glitches and bugs are always an issue with a new release, of course, but they're addressing minor issues while leaving those of us with game-breaking problems just sitting here, locked out and ignored.