Just a vent

[Zarabeth]

Isn't that what houses and cars are? pieces of paper with words on them? XD

So how, exactly, do you drive FFXIV to work?

[Lucke]

Isn't that what houses and cars are? pieces of paper with words on them? XD

You're thinking of diplomas.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

So how, exactly, do you drive FFXIV to work?

That wasn't my point. All car ownership is, is the deed itself, same with a house. Same with the code for XIV.

[Nanopizza]

Ouch, and I thought my 1 mb down <150 kb/s up was bad :s (Despite paying for 16-20 down 8 up but hey...)

[Ayrie]

So some quick math:

65k (your low end, reported) / 1024 = 0.006347... MB/s

Times 60 = 3.8 MB/minute

Times 60 = 228.5 MB/hour

Times 24 = 5484.375 MB/day

Divide by 1024 to get that in GB = 5.3558... GB/day

So it would take you just over a day to do the Stormblood download, unless your numbers were exaggerated, or you are really getting only 20KBps, at which point the game would literally be unplayable.

I smell exaggeration.

[Lithiela]

So some quick math:

65k (your low end, reported) / 1024 = 0.006347... MB/s

Times 60 = 3.8 MB/minute

Times 60 = 228.5 MB/hour

Times 24 = 5484.375 MB/day

Divide by 1024 to get that in GB = 5.3558... GB/day

So it would take you just over a day to do the Stormblood download, unless your numbers were exaggerated, or you are really getting only 20KBps, at which point the game would literally be unplayable.

I smell exaggeration.

Sorry but 65 or 70 KB/sec was the best I can get. My internet completely shuts down on a daily basis at around 7:30 to 8:00am my time. it might come back in 15 minutes, or it might be four hours. And when it does, it usually has download speeds of around 10KB/sec until the evening when it fixes itself. And I normally play from 3:30am to whenever my internet messes up since I work early mornings. Yes I got the stormblood downloaded, but that is not the point. Buying the physical copy should do more than tell you to download the game. Also, something I did not mention before, when I tried to install Stormblood from the disk, I got an error message saying I needed to install the base game. So they failed there too.

Plus take into account that if a download fails, It restarts at the beginning, so more lost time.


And yes you smell.

[Aladire]

Do you get faster download speeds with your phone? Maybe, if you have the plan to support that much data, tether your phone to your computer and use the cell network for awhile?

Otherwise, I would suggest bringing your computer somewhere that provides internet and connect it to their wifi, if that is possible for you.

[Kinkoz]

You're thinking of diplomas.

I think they're thinking of titles and contracts. You know, written proof of ownership and responsibility.

[Lithiela]

Do you get faster download speeds with your phone? Maybe, if you have the plan to support that much data, tether your phone to your computer and use the cell network for awhile?

Otherwise, I would suggest bringing your computer somewhere that provides internet and connect it to their wifi, if that is possible for you.

That is a good suggestion, but when I last had a cell phone, I had to drive to the end of my driveway and stand in the bed of my truck to get a signal. As far as the other, I do not know.

[Niwashi]

MMOs never come with the full game on disc. You always have to download something.

Many (I'd assume most) come with as much of the game as was ready by the time they needed to get the "final" version to the manufacturer who actually makes the disks, packages them, and sends them out to retailers, who in turn need to get them in time to ship them to customers. All of that requires significant lead time, and the developers continue working on the game during that interim between sending out that print copy and the game's release. Those updates made between the "final" disk version and the actual release date version have to be downloaded, even by those who buy the game on disk.

But usually, you'd at least get the main bulk of the game on the disk, and then just download those updates. If it's true that SE didn't do it that way, and instead printed out useless disks with nothing on them but the launcher, it's a total waste. Why print disks at all rather than just acknowledge that they made a download-only game? Or given that they did print disk versions, why not make use of that to make it easier both for their customers with slow connections and for their own patch servers?