If this is True, SE is TOO EVIL!

[Punainen]

I think the point is that every previous update has been just as big as the latest one.

The sad part isn't that we have to download redundant data, but that the patcher is crap and they don't care to fix it.

If you DIDNT have to download redundant data, then reinstalling would be like updating FFXI... Install it now, play in two days when it finishes downloading several years worth of updates. You get redundant data so new folks don't have to spend an effing AGE getting outdated files.