Redesign Updater Please

Let's face it, this updater is hands down the WORST feature of FFXIV. It should not take 12 hours or more to download a patch, and the download speed should NOT sit at 0 Kb/s for hours on end, especially when most people playing the game have decently fast internet connections. It hasn't seen an update since 9/18/2010, and according to some people who played the beta, it hasn't been improved on at all.

I would like to hear what SE is doing to address this issue, as not all of us are tech-savvy hackers who can manually update the game with a 3rd party torrent.

I wish I knew why everyone has trouble with it. I already finished the download through their own updater for today and it only took about an hour. Hope your issue gets resolved ^^

it took me 10 minutes, but yea i know ppl are getting this problem.. .

i got the update in less than an hour through the updater.. sounds like something is wrong with your connection... try opening all the proper ports on your router.

10 minutes? Nice! I had other stuff running so it might have slowed it down, but updates normally are 30-60 minutes.

4 hours left for me.

Why don't u just utorrent it like the alpha an beta users do xD ive been here since almost forever an i hear people use that downloader from SE even they know there downloader sucks that while they give us an open file when u start it to torrent it, it's much faster but i guess in some cases SE's downloader is good it's not for me so i torrent it an it only takes about 5mins to download the 1gb patchs from back then but ive seen a change in there patch seeders from back then it used to be like 3k seeders i torrented today now it was only around 900total but maybe i just got on to early -_-'

Downloaded in an hour and a half. I should be getting a lot faster speeds than this.

I have an amazing connection, and I've never had a problem with any other downloader.
except for this one..I started downloading at 2:30.. its 5:00..and I'm only at 73%..

its keeps going from 50 kbs to 120 kbs..and my normal download speed is 1.3-1.4 mbps..
soo idk what the problem is.

They need a direct download version for those with throttled peer-to-peer or no access to torrents. They happen to cut off my internet, so I get 30 second bursts of downloading between several minutes of no internet access for everyone in my house. Other games with bittorrent patchers give you the option to disable peer-to-peer connections.

you guys should be torrenting the file its so easy its within the FF14 folder already once u try to get on FF14 it download the patch which is a torrent an then u just cancel it go to download in your ff14 folder blahblahblah torrent it get like 3mbs an 5mins later its done =D

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Originally Posted by Nemo5990

you guys should be torrenting the file its so easy its within the FF14 folder already once u try to get on FF14 it download the patch which is a torrent an then u just cancel it go to download in your ff14 folder blahblahblah torrent it get like 3mbs an 5mins later its done =D

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Which folder is the Torrent file in?

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Originally Posted by Forbin

i got the update in less than an hour through the updater.. sounds like something is wrong with your connection... try opening all the proper ports on your router.

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I have, I have manually set my firewall to allow the game through, I currently have my security software turned OFF, and my download speed is non-exsistant. I'm a second from turning off my router and restarting.

frst start the updater patcher w/e to get the torrent into your directory

go to your directory

the torrent file is in documents >games>ffxiv>downloads>ffxiv?48eca647>metainfo with the name of todays date.torrent or wherever u may have installed it

open the file with utorrent

(read a different post with this info)

I just dunno how to actually patch the game, anyone fill me in? fill us in?

It took me about 2hrs with the official patcher with ports open, I have torrented a 4GB file in that time before, problem is SE's patcher and they know it is.

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Originally Posted by Eron

frst start the updater patcher w/e to get the torrent into your directory

go to your directory

the torrent file is in documents >games>ffxiv>downloads>ffxiv?48eca647>metainfo with the name of todays date.torrent or wherever u may have installed it

open the file with utorrent

(read a different post with this info)

I just dunno how to actually patch the game, anyone fill me in? fill us in?

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Download the patch, it's available, google it.

Drop it in My Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV\downloads\ffxiv\48eca647\patch

Relaunch the client and it will act like it's downloading, but since you already placed the patch in the folder it will go right to 100%. Then it installs just as it would the normal way.

SE your patcher is terrible.

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Originally Posted by Nemo5990

Why don't u just utorrent it like the alpha an beta users do xD ive been here since almost forever an i hear people use that downloader from SE even they know there downloader sucks that while they give us an open file when u start it to torrent it, it's much faster but i guess in some cases SE's downloader is good it's not for me so i torrent it an it only takes about 5mins to download the 1gb patchs from back then but ive seen a change in there patch seeders from back then it used to be like 3k seeders i torrented today now it was only around 900total but maybe i just got on to early -_-'

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Shouldnt have to use 3rd party shit to update the game. This updater is terrible, definatly the worst one ive ever used out of every mmo ive ever played.

I dont want to fucking jump through hoops to update a game. They do need to change it.

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Originally Posted by Kyra

Shouldnt have to use 3rd party shit to update the game. This updater is terrible, definatly the worst one ive ever used out of every mmo ive ever played.

I dont want to fucking jump through hoops to update a game. They do need to change it.

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It is, but it's likely never going to change. There is a workaround available. Should you have to use it? No. However choosing not to and complaining about it (not saying you, but a lot of people do this) is ridiculous.

We really shouldn't have to use torrents, this damn thing shouldn't be this slow. This really should be on the top of the list for fixes for this game. Nobody wants to try to login to be greeted with an update that takes all day to download.

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Originally Posted by Shipp

It is, but it's likely never going to change. There is a workaround available. Should you have to use it? No. However choosing not to and complaining about it (not saying you, but a lot of people do this) is ridiculous.

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Considering that I did as you suggested, and looked up a torrent on my search engine, only to find nothing, I think those of us who are NOT tech-savvy have a damn good reason to complain, especially since the one site I found that had a torrent was forced by SE to remove it. this updater should be killed off and replaced with a more efficient one. FFXI had an excellent one, they should have stuck with that one.

you are right. ^

Wow.
Using Vuze it took me literally 4 minutes to download it (@1.4MB/s).
After waiting 3 hours for the official patcher to give me more than 5kB/s...