20+GB Version Update on PS4 still occurring

[Vashai]

Yea your friend is not alone. I logged out at gold saucer last night, like normal no power shut off etc. I go to play this morning and bam 22gb update. This is ridiculous now we received no compensation for early access downtime/unplayable duty server crashes. Nor for the constant kicks from ddos then for client crashes and redownloading 22gb during EA hit tons of people multiple times I like this persons friend redownloaded 3 times and now a 4th which is honestly baffling as there was no crash power outage etc. SE needs to start reimbursing subscription time or at least send out an apology mog letter with a silly item something to prove at least they acknowledge us and appreciate those of us who have and are sticking through these horrendous "bugs" redownloading and trying to play through early access which was a horrible excuse for a pay to stress test the new content.

[QT_Melon]

Yea your friend is not alone. I logged out at gold saucer last night, like normal no power shut off etc. I go to play this morning and bam 22gb update. This is ridiculous now we received no compensation for early access downtime/unplayable duty server crashes. Nor for the constant kicks from ddos then for client crashes and redownloading 22gb during EA hit tons of people multiple times I like this persons friend redownloaded 3 times and now a 4th which is honestly baffling as there was no crash power outage etc. SE needs to start reimbursing subscription time or at least send out an apology mog letter with a silly item something to prove at least they acknowledge us and appreciate those of us who have and are sticking through these horrendous "bugs" redownloading and trying to play through early access which was a horrible excuse for a pay to stress test the new content.

It's likely due to the fact it's Sony's issue not SE that people have not been compensated. I do think SE should put more pressure on Sony about helping customers out with this issue, because simply the customer doesn't care whose fault it is - they care that it's happening. What I don't like is how Sony doesn't really address its updates making them look to be more benign so much that gaming sites usually make fun of their system updates "stability performances" as like its nothing...when it does in fact affect certain games. Sony needs to be more open about what those "stability updates" actually do.

If you see things like this: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps4-update-473-out-now-heres-what-it-does-not-much/1100-6452204/

...and didn't know that Sony, fixed a backend feature that should be stated as "fixed features that improve and fixes the functionality of certain games" instead of "improves the quality of the system performance." it's vague description doesn't reveal that sometimes Sony messes up a feature for how the games play, and people would probably put more pressure on Sony, than the game makers on resolving issues like this.

The best SE can do is put up a warning on their Lodestone News Topics.