If this is True, SE is TOO EVIL!

[EgweneALvere]

I have forwarded the proper ports to get a better DL speed from the patcher. It didn't work. Last night the patcher was telling me it would take 7 hours to download. That is completely unacceptable. IMO for their patcher to be successful I shouldn't have to forward ports to fix their screw up. I do not have to do that with other peer to peer programs and they work wonderfully.

Not too mention this whole business with redownloading the same patch over and over again. I am on a limited data connection. If I have to download 100's of extra MBs that is really going to make my life difficult.

[Krausus]

Also Folks if you are having issues Downloading the patch and you dont like to torrent it (which is very fast) check out this site it is a direct DL of the patches.

http://tehkrizz.net/FFXIV/downloads.php

[Crevox]

I have forwarded the proper ports to get a better DL speed from the patcher. It didn't work.

Then you didn't do it right.

Also Folks if you are having issues Downloading the patch and you dont like to torrent it (which is very fast) check out this site it is a direct DL of the patches.

http://tehkrizz.net/FFXIV/downloads.php

It's against Final Fantasy XIV rules to download patches through other means than the downloader, and posting links is probably worse.

[lordvr]

omg how crazy SE still doing this

[Wynn]

Someone is obviously looking to get the ban hammer.

[Haru]

The answer is simple..

There have been a total of 16 updated to FFXIV totalling patches of 3.8GB.
There has been one update to the boot loader.

If you install fresh from the disc you will notice boot loader 1.0 (RED!!) This will then download a 5MB boot loader patch.
After completing this Patches 1-16 will load.. SO there is no problem here.

Its incremental updates.. Sure they contain events that are no longer part of the game, this means that they need to include character models and graphic designs for all the new equipments that gets added each time. Simply saying re-downloading is not true.. The only thing is maybe the patches could be reduced in size marginally by removing the special events from them. Since most likely they will never be re-used (like the snowman, or the bomb towers etc).

This would be a lot more trouble than its worth as a developer since the patch already has been made and working. Why would you waste time and effort that is being spent on moving the game forward.

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