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[Fyce]

I was also hoping they would allow early patch, but I guess it depends whether they are patching the game first or dealing with hardware first, they wont allow a patch download until most (if not all) of the patch is already installed in the servers.

The server(s) responsible for handling the updates is not the same one as the game servers.
If everything was centralized, you wouldn't have access to the website or the forums.

It's very likely that every services are separated in a number of servers, for multiple reasons.

In fact, I'm pretty sure that the update server(s) are already ready.