22.7gb update after relogging?

[Gihwezi]

Whelp.. I called Sony to ask them and got hung up on, and then I tried live chat and the guy said they had no reports of this issue and no information, and kept telling me to contact Square Enix even after I showed him this thread and showed him the notice of Square Enix saying they were waiting on Sony. I explained to him repeatedly that someone had to know SOMETHING since they're supposedly fixing it, but nope.. That's encouraging.

Jesus... It's so bad that they just redirected you in a circle like this. It really is a game of blame. Well, we're probably not going to see any fix anytime soon since the two companies seem completely uncoordinated in their own communication with each other, which definitely sucks.

[Eadyn]

Just got this issue as well.
If the only true solution is to actually redownload everything, I will not be able to play this game again.
My download speed during patches is 0.18 MB at best. Paired with the incessant "Unable to download patch files" message, it took me more than three days to download Stormblood with its ~6 GB. I had to babysit the download the entire time, canceling the download every 20-50 MB so that it would "save" my progress and stave off the patch files message.

Redownloading the entire thing is an irritant to some, but to me it is not really a possibility on my internet.