SE sort out your Updater ><

[Felis]

Remote Connection: 0
Local Connection: 3
Download: 500 KB/s
I love it ^^

[trinta]

lul i need to zzzzzzz

please keep the luls rolling, i read the boards before work

Alas, going to have to bail myself. I was counting on you!

[Rane]

I'm not here to defend the downloader. It obviously has a lot of issues. However, those of you who always show 0 remote connections even after the downloader has been running for several minutes should definitely try forwarding ports if you haven't done so yet. (Others in this thread have explained which ports, etc.) On my old modem it shortened my patch download time from a few hours down to a few minutes. Things usually get much faster when remote connections start to show up.

Again, it's apparent from the posts on this forum that forwarding ports isn't doing the trick for everyone, but it's most definitely worth trying.

[Wynn]

On the modem I have issues with, forwarding the ports doesn't work but bridging the modem does. Of course, I'm not exactly comfortable doing that so I don't, but it is weird that opening ports doesn't fix it yet turning off the firewall all together does. In my case, it is definitely my modem. It just does not like SE's updater.

[Joeking]

On the modem I have issues with, forwarding the ports doesn't work but bridging the modem does. Of course, I'm not exactly comfortable doing that so I don't, but it is weird that opening ports doesn't fix it yet turning off the firewall all together does. In my case, it is definitely my modem. It just does not like SE's updater.

I guess your modem doesn't like Japan, bunch of weirdos.

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[Rowyne]

Because people are complaining about a patcher when that isn't the issue ... it isn't anyones net or the patcher. But the fact that too many people are patching at the same time. People think the patcher sucks for trying to patch it on patch day.

How is it not an issue on SE's end when virtually no other modern MMOs have this problem?

You claim to have played WoW, but if you really had you'd know that the active players out of its 11 million subscribers quickly and smoothly download their patches in a reasonable timeframe, and log in with no problem on patch day. One way they speed up this process with major content patches is by allowing you to pre-download patch data ahead of time so you'll be ready to go on patch day. And if that isn't enough, their patcher is so awesome it's broken into 3 stages. After stage one, you are free to log in and play. That's right, you can log in before it's even finished.

FFXI was off and running before WoW was even heard of. SE is on their second MMO, and they still haven't figured out how to handle their own updates? Was this entire game outsourced during development or something? It's like they don't even know how to fix their own code.

I understand not all companies are Blizzard. So, as it's been mentioned, look at other games like Rift and Aion. Trion and NCSoft are much smaller developers, and you can download and play on patch day, no problem.

And your solution is that people should just wait a day or two?

"Server lag is making it impossible to play." "Just wait."
"Poor UI response is making simple actions take 5 times as long." "Just wait."
"My mouse won't move because it's software rendered." "Just wait."
"Stamina bar and animation-stop between active and passive mode make combat feel slow." "Just wait."
"No chocobos, airships, low-mid level content or endgame." "Just wait."
"It's been nine months now and the game still isn't worthy of the Final Fantasy name." "Just wait."

Seriously, are you Tanaka in disguise? Because that is the attitude that is making people really cranky around here. Everyone is tired of waiting for improvements, and being made to feel like we expect too much when everyone else in the gaming world gets the freaking job done.

[AlexiaKidd]

Wow just read through this thread and Kilta sorry but you are absolutely incorrect on so many levels.

If you bothered to read you would have saw that I got fed up with the "patcher" and threw it into uTorrent. In uTorrent the patch downloaded in 4 and a half mins, the "patcher" still had 4+ hours on it. I believe both uTorrent and the patcher get the update the same way from the same sources using a torrent style setup. It's just for me uTorrent was a million times better at linking me up to seeds than the patcher is.

[Draven]

How is it not an issue on SE's end when virtually no other modern MMOs have this problem?

You claim to have played WoW, but if you really had you'd know that the active players out of its 11 million subscribers quickly and smoothly download their patches in a reasonable timeframe, and log in with no problem on patch day. One way they speed up this process with major content patches is by allowing you to pre-download patch data ahead of time so you'll be ready to go on patch day. And if that isn't enough, their patcher is so awesome it's broken into 3 stages. After stage one, you are free to log in and play. That's right, you can log in before it's even finished.

FFXI was off and running before WoW was even heard of. SE is on their second MMO, and they still haven't figured out how to handle their own updates? Was this entire game outsourced during development or something? It's like they don't even know how to fix their own code.

I understand not all companies are Blizzard. So, as it's been mentioned, look at other games like Rift and Aion. Trion and NCSoft are much smaller developers, and you can download and play on patch day, no problem.

And your solution is that people should just wait a day or two?

"Server lag is making it impossible to play." "Just wait."
"Poor UI response is making simple actions take 5 times as long." "Just wait."
"My mouse won't move because it's software rendered." "Just wait."
"Stamina bar and animation-stop between active and passive mode make combat feel slow." "Just wait."
"No chocobos, airships, low-mid level content or endgame." "Just wait."
"It's been nine months now and the game still isn't worthy of the Final Fantasy name." "Just wait."

Seriously, are you Tanaka in disguise? Because that is the attitude that is making people really cranky around here. Everyone is tired of waiting for improvements, and being made to feel like we expect too much when everyone else in the gaming world gets the freaking job done.

I think the "attitude" that you're referring to is more of an understanding or acceptance that they have that many don't seem to have.

I understand that this game has a lot of major issues and accept that it's going to take a long~time to fix it. Until then, I play and enjoy it for what it's worth. As long as I know they are doing something to make it better, and I know they are doing a lot, I'm satisfied till that time.



Cheer up Rowyne, we have a good server and good friends to entertain us. Don't you think? :-)