Just a vent

[Lithiela]

Why print disks at all rather than just acknowledge that they made a download-only game? Or given that they did print disk versions, why not make use of that to make it easier both for their customers with slow connections and for their own patch servers?

Yes, this so much. When I bought DOOM, which is a steam game, the physical copy was five DVDs. Yes I had to download some patches. but whatever. If I had known that the physical copy of ffxiv was just an installer, I might have bought the digital version instead

[Kaedan]

So some quick math:

65k (your low end, reported) / 1024 = 0.006347... MB/s

Times 60 = 3.8 MB/minute

Times 60 = 228.5 MB/hour

Times 24 = 5484.375 MB/day

Divide by 1024 to get that in GB = 5.3558... GB/day

So it would take you just over a day to do the Stormblood download, unless your numbers were exaggerated, or you are really getting only 20KBps, at which point the game would literally be unplayable.

I smell exaggeration.

Precisely what my point was.

[Kaedan]

Plus take into account that if a download fails, It restarts at the beginning, so more lost time.

No, it does not.