328MB again?

[Jaide]

You seem to love considering logic invalid. In theory it's the "same amount and same amount of time" but think about the PS3 and new PC users who join today or when the PS3 version is released -- given the the time of disk pressing for the PS3 they'll have to download a year or so worth of updates...or they can just download the initial patch and the latest patch skipping the year worth of updates.

They'll have to download the same amount of data whether it's in one big file or a bunch of little ones. You're not skipping anything, and it's not like you would have to manually select to download and install each patch either. The client should be able to automatically do a version check and download/install the next patch. The amount of time taken would be virtually the same.

[Rydin]

They'll have to download the same amount of data whether it's in one big file or a bunch of little ones. You're not skipping anything, and it's not like you would have to manually select to download and install each patch either. The client should be able to automatically do a version check and download/install the next patch. The amount of time taken would be virtually the same.

When a new system replaces an old one.... updates for the old one are no longer in the download?
I'm not really making that statement, I am more asking peoples opinion...

For example:
Say (God Forbid) they scrap the market wards and add an AH
then the newest patch could not include any of the MW updates and would in fact be a lot smaller than downloading each of the previous patches one after the other.....
In which case a new installer benefits from 1 all inclusive (or exclusive as the case may be) patch as opposed to each little one along the way
Any validity in that?

[Neptune]

I think I'm just gonna not run the patcher until 1.18 comes out. F that.