Dear Squeex: Will the patcher be updated at 2.0

[Altera]

Nice to see an improvement to the launcher. But I have not had any problems with the current patcher.
I have reinstalled FFXIV several times due to my SSDs was faulty from factory. And the while big patch took me about 2-3 hours, and all the smaller patcher has taken me from 5mins - 30min.

Ofc if the new one works better, than thumbs up from me

[Starlord]

Nice to see an improvement to the launcher. But I have not had any problems with the current patcher.
I have reinstalled FFXIV several times due to my SSDs was faulty from factory. And the while big patch took me about 2-3 hours, and all the smaller patcher has taken me from 5mins - 30min.

Ofc if the new one works better, than thumbs up from me

There's a difference between "Patch day" and "Patching the Whole game at random"

*If your patching the whole game during patch day time frame, then you may suffer download speeds* (Patcher Congestion)

*If you are patching the whole game that's not on patch day, then you can download the whole game with out worrying about a loss of Download speed*

I really, really, really hope that by "PC" they meant "connection". Because the reason current patcher underperforms is flooding the upload of asymmetrical connections (ADSL), thus making sending ACK packets for the download slow to impossible. It's certainly not the fault of my CPU/GPU.

IMHO, they should make a patcher which uses HTTP as it's primary source and use P2P as an additional source, giving you an option to continue seeding (otherwise you might as well kill the P2P part). For example, people living in dormitories can't use torrent because it's blocked by the university. Then there are ISPs that are explicitly looking for P2P packets and slowing them down to 1kb/s (so called traffic shaping).

Internet Speed & Computer speed are entirely different. Since were dealing with an online game, then the internet speed is what they are referring to, not Computer speed.

Example:

- AMD X4 Phenom 3.20 GHz
- 12GB of RAM
- 6770 HD Raedon

Internet Connection: ADSL

Compared with (Random specs):

- AMD X2 Athlon 2.6GHz
- 6 GB RAM
- 5770 HD Raedon

Internet Connection: Cable

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The top specs ( my computer) can get to a "Non-internet related" Program as quick as I click on it, However the internet connection ( which is ADSL) Which is lacking speed for the internet, thus the speed to which I get to a internet site would take me 3-4 secs rather than in a blink of an eye.

The second specs (Random) May take 3-4 secs to load up said programs ( Non-internet related), however the internet connection speed to get to internet sites (Cable), you can get to in a blink of an eye.

Now granted there is a small connection between internet and Computer, because they both have to send out signals to one another to communicate, that only matters if you really have a crappy computer. In this day in age, most people should have a fairly decent computer ( a good 300-400 computer).
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TL;DR= Internet speed is not the same as PC speed, FFXIV is an online game so were only dealing with Internet speed.

That's what I learned from secondary school in terms of the difference between internet speed and PC speed.

[yoshikwalla]

Since they're changing server structure, program structure, and the game engine I don't see why they would keep the old patcher.