Did they fix the updater?

[Elexia]

As always it's a mixed bag. A friend of mine cannot get the update at all, either through the updater or through utorrent.

Can anyone please grab the .patch file that gets uploaded to the Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV\downloads\ffxiv\48eca647\patch folder and upload it to somewhere? I almost instinctively said megaupload but I forgot they got partyv&'d.

If someone else doesn't do it by time I get back inside sure, since it was only 48mb so mediafire should do just fine.

[Bahn]

Actually, is there a way to force the updater to re-download the update? I remember it involved editing some file so that it didn't have the same version number as the current update to make the game "think" it requires an update. Don't remember offhand the specifics of it.

[Elexia]

Actually, is there a way to force the updater to re-download the update? I remember it involved editing some file so that it didn't have the same version number as the current update to make the game "think" it requires an update. Don't remember offhand the specifics of it.

Hm, I'm not sure I know in FFXI you just deleted a relevant .dat (like a body armor) and force file check and that forces the download.

http://www.mediafire.com/?2jl8r9gq0glrhnv

You can try this out, I'm not sure if I did this correctly though haha, I just grabbed the folder real quick from hooking up to teamviewer.

[Montjuleant]

At least you guys can download the update, though slow; my college has torrenting completely blocked, so I am unable to officially download the game's patches, having to rely completely on other uploading the patch on direct downloads website.

[Mychael]

At least you guys can download the update, though slow; my college has torrenting completely blocked, so I am unable to officially download the game's patches, having to rely completely on other uploading the patch on direct downloads website.

My college blocks them too, but I once happened to be in the IT department on an errand for my boss, and just happened to idly mention how frustrating it was that my new game couldn't update because it used P2P. After that I just have to e-mail someone every time there was an update. Still, the connection speed is so slow that it's almost worth it for me to wait til a weekend and drive home. v_v

I've always felt like the updater should be smart enough to realize it can't get any P2P connections, and then switch to an old-fashioned direct download.

You should try contacting your IT department. If yours is anything like mine, the IT department is never helpful; but once you find the ones who leave their IT job to play video games for 10 hours... sometimes you can win. :P