I'm ashamed to admit it but I tried 4 free-to-play 3d MMO's and all of them downloaded and installed withing 30 minutes. Also all of them have less cumbersome login process.

All the patches also downloaded within that 30 mins I kept thinking "seriously" how the hell is XIV so behind on all aspects?!

This morning XIV downloaded in 4 hours while the installation alone lasted over 30minutes?

Just what is going on in here?

I don't know the size of the patch but surely it can't be bigger than entire games like Ethernal Saga Odyssey and Vindictus?!