Shadowbringers pre-download

[Starrie]

Never mind I found it and it does include the previous expansions...thanks all!

[Crystal_Raven]

I'm curious, what is the process of uploading a new version of the game onto the servers?

This varies heavily from company to company, the way we do it is by first testing the new feature in a closed environment in-house to fix potential problems that show up quickly and overall optimize and fix it as much as we can. Which is the easy part.

When deploying the update to the live servers - this is also easy, realistically speaking this is pressing a button on the main system which in turns deploys it to all the hubs, the problem then is upgrading the software of the server itself to match the new game code, if you don't do this, have fun crashing around the clock and potentially causing a very large and expensive fire. Plus you have no guarantee that when you flip the on switch, everything will work fine.

You'll need to change the scripts, restart them so they work properly, actually enable the new update itself, restart the scrips some more and modify them further so they fit their purpose on the new update.

For comparison, a relatively casual update at my workplace takes roughly 5-6 hours of downtime. We had some problems with the servers last week on Monday that lasted throughout the week and was finally fixed on Friday morning. Turned out it was a couple SSDs and some power supplies that were on their way to death that needed replacing, actually finding them was a huge pain in the backside.

I wish I knew how SE does this stuff, everyone does it differently, it's always fun to learn how others do it and use their strategy if it's better. Except if they don't use wires for cable management and color coding to make it easy. That stuff triggers me.

[SerLuke]

Nope. Stated this in another thread that it doesn't require PS+ for game patches.

Game patch download - Free (Detection, download and installation)

Source

One of the screenshots in that link literally says you need PSPlus to check for updates while in rest mode. Now if you don’t have PSPlus you can start the update then go into rest mode and continue but you can’t have it check for updates in rest mode unless you have Plus

[Tinkerblue]

One thing- in my time zone, the automatic download from PSN rest mode starts around 5am...the game goes live tomorrow at 4am here. I’ll need to probably start download manually around midnight so it will be ready to go by 4.

[qqmoarploxify]

Idk, every other MMO I've played lets you pre-download the client. Look at WoW, blizzard lets you pre-download their expansion and patch data a week in advance...

[Crystal_Raven]

Idk, every other MMO I've played lets you pre-download the client. Look at WoW, blizzard lets you pre-download their expansion and patch data a week in advance...

This mostly comes down to developers.

SE doesn't want leaks, so they don't put stuff in the game until the last moment.

Where as blizzard doesn't give a combined damn between all of the employees if stuff gets leaked through game files.

[qqmoarploxify]

This mostly comes down to developers.

SE doesn't want leaks, so they don't put stuff in the game until the last moment.

Where as blizzard doesn't give a combined damn between all of the employees if stuff gets leaked through game files.

Just give me a disc copy of the game I can get a week ahead of time that has an incendiary device attached to it, so if anyone tries to open it an hour before the game launches it explodes.

[SerLuke]

Someone mentioned that the expansion is 26GB, that seems rather large doesn't it?

hopefully that means some juicy new large areas/content =)

[Samsta]

hopefully that means some juicy new large areas/content =)

The areas are probably as large as they were in heavensward and stormblood. One can always hope though.

[Edax]

Someone mentioned that the expansion is 26GB, that seems rather large doesn't it?

I believe Fallout 76's first patch was 47GB, so it seems we got off easy if that's just for an expansion.