22.7gb update after relogging?

[Yamimarik]

Well... this isn't comforting at all ><. This just finally happened to me today, and the way people are saying in here.. it can happen w/ or w/o power surges AND on PC...

This just happened to me right now, I'm already in the middle of downloading this big patch just so I can get back on. No idea how long it will take either. Thankfully I do have pretty reliable and fast internet... but anything could happen even another power surge (they tend to happen around it sometimes with bad weather.)

So the majority of the people in this thread is anything to go by... I'm now scared this could happen to me over and over and over again. Please SE, I hope there is a fix for this soon. And a permanent fix as well! This is something that shouldn't be happening. Lag, DDoS attacks, server congestion is one thing, and is to be expected because internet and people. But this? Is obviously some technical issue that I hope you all are readily working around the clock to get fixed ><

I really hope this is the one and only time this happens to me, but the future just seems bleak if 68 pages of this thread is anything to go by.

[Odd]

A google search brought me here. I take solace in knowing I'm not alone in having to reinstall 22.7 GB, but I'm shocked how widespread this issue is. Have the devs made any comments about this? My power goes out somewhat frequently during the summer thunderstorms, is this gonna happen every single time if my power goes out while playing?

[Aglid]

A google search brought me here. I take solace in knowing I'm not alone in having to reinstall 22.7 GB, but I'm shocked how widespread this issue is. Have the devs made any comments about this? My power goes out somewhat frequently during the summer thunderstorms, is this gonna happen every single time if my power goes out while playing?

Yes, somewhere on this topic. It says they're working on it along with sony. But that was a week ago, no news about it.

[Archmortal]

Second time it's happened to me now, as well. If SE is reading this and you're still looking into data corruption with no results, might I suggest looking for bugs in the Launcher. I don't see a reason for a power outage of a server-side MMO to cause client-side data file corruption.

[KanameYuuki]

Add me to the list on PS4, had a power outage and then I was greeted by that patch that we cannot download in the background. I had many power outages before but this is the first time it ever happened to me, really sucks being locked out of the game for all that time.

[SeraphStray]

Welp, it just happened to me.

Upon seeing the download start, my first thought was "well..maybe something rolled out in the second my power flickered"?

I'm honestly surprised this has been going on for a week or two and there's no fix. It's clearly a launcher issue. Many of us here have had power outages since this games launch and this has never happened.

I do hope they resolve this soon. In the meantime, I can't play until the beginning of the month when my data resets :/

[DiaDeem]

As this just happened to me (power outage) I just spent the last 20 mins reading this whole thread and I've gotta say that this is just plain embarrassing.

And people say 1.0's launch was a mess, but this?? From Raubahn Extreme, to 2 hour queues on populated servers (Balmung), to the PS4 launcher completely failing to use locally instilled game files. For years I've spoken of how dedicated the Final Fantasy XIV team is, and how much I respected them for making one of my favorite games of all time.
But when you can't even communicate around issues like this, then I start to wonder if player experience has become a bit neglected. When it comes to tech issues, my experience with Stormblood ranks as probably the very worst I've had with an online game ever. They want more people to play their game, but can't accommodate them for a smooth experience.

How can I recommend this game to my friends? What am I going to tell them when they have to sit 2 hours in the login queue? What am I going to tell them when their PS4 freaks out and FF XIV is the only game on the console that fails to work properly?

We're paying a monthly fee. This is completely unacceptable.

Shoutout to SE_Kahuna for being the one person from SE communicating in Reddit. Thank you.

Now that I'm done with my rant, I have a question that I didn't see on the thread (maybe I missed it) but when re-downloading: Does the 22 GB take new space on the PS4? Or does the launcher do cleanup and leaves the game on the 60+ GB mark as normal?

[hobaGX]

i payed for pre-order for the early access, and what happen? i got power cut in my first hour because that i ended up downloading the game around 3 days , i only had 1 day of early access i hopped its only because early access but nope .

And it happened to me again this time it might take ages for me my internet is not good at all i'm currently downloading 22.7 GB with 0.20~0.02MB/s also data doesn't grow on tree

please fix this problem SE this make the game Alot less fun and make us lose our passion to play ffxiv

PS:Sorry for bad English, its not my native language ^^

[nathanuc1988]

I just had this issue........ compounded with horrendous data center speeds (0.5MBps? really?)... this is infuriating.

Just to clarify, my PS4 (Pro) did NOT shut down improperly. Last night I closed FFXIV via the menu, once the launcher loaded, I closed via PS4 menu and SHUT DOWN my console. No double beep, everything shut down correctly. This issue was NOT caused by any sort of power issue.

If this happens again, that's the end of my sub. I hardly get any time to play and now I have to wait 400+ minutes due to terrible upload speeds at the data center. I have a gigabit fiber connection and frequently get 20MBps+ downloads... this is unacceptable.

EDIT: Also, just to be clear, I am using a UPS on my setup. Even if were an external power issue, it wouldn't affect the PS4 (and it would have logged the power issue)

[hobaGX]

Now that I'm done with my rant, I have a question that I didn't see on the thread (maybe I missed it) but when re-downloading: Does the 22 GB take new space on the PS4? Or does the launcher do cleanup and leaves the game on the 60+ GB mark as normal?

it doesn't take new space the game size stayed the same for after the first time , it sound like its overwriting folders