Turn on the patch server already

[Kuwagami]

And don't tell me that was your only choice you don't have to live in the middle of no where.

Not everyone can live in the big cities, in the well developed countries (or at least, the richest ones). Just saying.

[FallenArisen0990]

Not everyone can live in the big cities, in the well developed countries (or at least, the richest ones). Just saying.

You're honestly doing yourselves a big favor by not living in big cities.

[Silverbane]

What is this outside you speak of? I think I'm allergic to it.

True fact: sunlight causes cancer. Avoid it if you can, just get your vitamin D through your food.

[Averax]

While i would love to get it all downloaded and out of the way, they're probably not ready to do that yet.

It's not as simple as flipping a switch.

[Adire]

And don't tell me that was your only choice you don't have to live in the middle of no where.

Moving is easier said than done, especially when moving from a typically poorer rural area to a more expensive to live in urban/suburban area. Trust me. I'd gladly have moved from where I live long ago if it was that simple.

[Silverbane]

I can download at a max of 40 KB/s. Judging from previous main content patches, I'm expecting this patch to be between 1 GB and 1.5 GB. That means a download time of 8-12 hours for me. THAT is the 'rush'.

Got a friend with a 4G cellphone, and do live in an area with 4G coverage? Then ask your friend to setup a hotspot or tether to your system to let you download the game, it will probably be faster. Even the slowest 4G network can download 1.4GB in about an hour, others do it in 5-10 minutes, according to this report

[Kuwagami]

You're honestly doing yourselves a big favor by not living in big cities.

sadly I am T_T Well, I have shitty DL speed because the ISP of my parents is screwing around with its customers, but I'm not a country guy. I have decent connection whenever I don't DL stuff

[Silverbane]

If I understand correctly, data like that found in Garland Tools (which I love) is obtained by data-mining the client. It is reasonable to believe that shortly after SE releases the new client for download, data-mining will begin.

Now, it seems SE has a policy of keeping some patch information back to prevent first-movers getting too much of an advantage; delaying the release of the new client until shortly before the servers go back live may be a component of that policy. In determining when to release the client, SE may be trying to balance typical download times against how quickly data-miners have been able to mine the client in the past, so that the data-miners are starting to get and present info about the same time that the servers go live.

Or maybe not. It's just an hypothesis.

[PizzaRolls]

lol. im excited for the new patch too and i agree as i "used" to have a very slow internet connection and downloading just FFXIV during ARR days took 29 hours to com plete so i can understand people with slow internet wanting it early so by time it is done downloading they can jump right in

[KeluBehemoth]

Using 3gb of data on a cellphone would be pretty costly <.<