Updating Ridicilous!

Today i went to play and gets the update this was around 13.00pm and guess what it's still not finished is at 54.1 and says 3hours an 20mins to go still even though it is rubbish as when i first started it said would be 6 hours come on this is a really bad way to do updates something needs to be done about it as having to download for a full day is just Ridicilous!

Until they add a better method of patching, use the torrent method. If you don't know how to do that say so and it will be explained.

Oh like why dose it say upload speed of 10.6KB yet download speed of nothing most of the time

will i have to start from the begining, Yes please how do i use torrent is much better as works i know as my brother did it for me when i had beta but didn't show me any help is always welcomed thanks Arcell

Never had it this slow, 2hours and only 8% done : (

mines never once had a problem

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Originally Posted by skywolflord

will i have to start from the begining, Yes please how do i use torrent is much better as works i know as my brother did it for me when i had beta but didn't show me any help is always welcomed thanks Arcell

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He can't (or shouldn't, rather) tell you because using something other than the official downloader is against the terms of service. However, I'm sure a quick search on Google will give you the help you're looking for.

Will they still really mod us if we tell people how to do it? I mean I know the old team would but it's a successful work around for an almost broken system for some.

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Originally Posted by Arcell

Will they still really mod us if we tell people how to do it? I mean I know the old team would but it's a successful work around for an almost broken system for some.

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I'm not really sure, but I wouldn't wanna chance it. Plus if he's smart he might notice the link I may or may not have hidden behind text that may or may not be italicized.

Yes and the fact is the official one does not work as it should so therefore they should allow people to use one that dose work as it should and doing it the official way wright now is losing me game time is has only gone up by 0.7 percent since i started the post and for me it's now 22.00pm normally i would never use anything but the official updates but this is taking the biscuit and if this is how they are going to be everytime have to do an update then i be losing a day if not more everytime

Check this link.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...r-works-for-me....

The alternate method is listed in the 6th post.

Mainly i just wanted to point out that the updating is very slow to say i just got a new pc with everything i need to play this and when i went on last night it was in maintance it almost feels like i'll never get around to playing

Well yeah the current system really does need to change, unfortunately until then the only alternate method is to use the torrent program.

I usually don't have problems. I did the time before last, but this patch downloaded quickly.

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Originally Posted by Arcell

Well yeah the current system really does need to change, unfortunately until then the only alternate method is to use the torrent program.

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The funny thing is, and I'm surprised at the lack of gamers who do this, is that I -always- download my patches via torrents, as they generally are just faster. But as far as the current system, the few times I have used it I've never incurred any real problems, but I definitely notice the speed difference. I grab torrents at about 1.5 - 2.5 Mbps whereas with SE's updater I only run between 400-700Kbps. Not really a helpful post but I'm surprised at the lack of you who use torrents for updates, but I guess it's all personal preference.

This update actually wasn't too bad for me, after the last update, I made modifications to what my firewall allows through, and that seemed to clear up the worst of my problems. It still took me about 2 1/2 hours and wasn't downloading at the highest speed available to me, but it least it didn't hit 0.0 for hours on end.

Still I agree that this updater is terrible, a consumer should not be expected to have a degree in computer networking just to update a game. to those who are still having problems:

- try the bittorrent
- try forwarding ports in your router (assuming you know how)
- try checking your firewall, and what it allows. (you may have to manually set FFXIV to "allowed" status.)