Quote Originally Posted by AsheRayne View Post
Hi all! Hope this is the right place to post this! I was having connection issues last night on my desktop so I switched over to my metered Wifi connection on the same system. In just under 2 hours of playtime FFXIV consumed over 7gb of data. Photo attached for reference.



Now this was my desktop PC - I've played off mobile tethering before with my laptop and never had an issue like this - so I was curious if anyone knew why this would happen on my desktop? No patches were installed, I just switched connections from LAN to Wifi when I started having D/C issues. For reference - I ran a single dungeon instance and a few MSQs. Again, the above image is solely from last night's less than 2 hour session!
That is likely because of the patch itself. It was about 7.5 GB. On Average, the amount of bandwidth used is less than 10kb/s, even in congested areas.

Everything the game downloads, outside of launcher/game updates, is in a text string, then your PC converts it into the game uses resources on your local machine.