For the Love of the Twelve Can We Get Smaller Patches At Faster Intervals?

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Originally Posted by Elexia

Stop reaching.

There's nothing "to improve", they repackage data because it's helpful in the long run in terms of convenience. Have you ever fresh installed this game? No? Exactly.

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Are you actually reading my posts or just trying to troll?
They are wasting their own bandwidth, using incremental backups would reduce the amount of data everyone has to download no matter if it's a new or current player. But yeah, whiteknight away.

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Originally Posted by Soukyuu

Bandwidth is not an issue, the horribly broken patch system is. The less time you spend in it, the better.

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Horribly broken? I'd rather spend the few minutes in total from patching to keep it one nice and tidy update for newer players. I was suprised at how easy it patched compared to XI when reinstalling the other day.

ITT: 15 MB of extra data is "horribly broken".

I give up, ignorance is a bliss.

They're running a fucking MMO. Any bandwidth "wasted" is an infinitesimal amount in comparison to their total usage. There's nothing broken about the system, most MMO's in the industry use it. MMO's live and die by how well they can bring in new players as veterans fall off, and making the experience for them as quick and easy as possible is important.

Tried reinstalling FFXI lately?

I like big pieces over long periods of time.
It's easier to manage.

Once a patch comes out, I spend like 2-3 weeks hardcore doing all the new content, and then easen up until the new patch comes.