Migration to PlayStation®4 Version Patch System

[ko_]

YAY. I'm getting my PS4 replacement on payday so this is good news I'll be able to play XIV again. T.T Buying a big bro pro instead of having a baby PS4.

[ChaoticCrimson]

I apologize for the confusion in my previous post: I've edited it to reflect that I meant that I don't have PSPlus, not Pro.

[Fawkes]

PSN downloads are usually pretty slow for me compared to the rest of the internet.

[Caitlinzulu]

Do you use wireless connection on ps4? i have noticed the wireless implementation isnt very good at all

[Iscah]

The announcement says we need 31 GB of space available on the PS4. Is that going to be the size of the patches that we need to download? If so, I’ll need to plan around it or I’ll be using up my whole month’s bandwidth on that download.

[TalithaSolarien]

The announcement says we need 31 GB of space available on the PS4. Is that going to be the size of the patches that we need to download? If so, I’ll need to plan around it or I’ll be using up my whole month’s bandwidth on that download.

That's how I understood that message, yes. I seems everything except he base game needs to be redownloaded (incl. all patches and expansions).

[AppleJinx]

Hopefully my ps plus can become useful and have the patches start automatically downloading in the future

[ShadowHunterrX]

From my personal experience with large games like TESO (which is in the same ballpark figure like FF14 sizewise) or Overwatch. The speed of your internet connection really doesn't matter very much here as the most part is spent checking the existing file and then reassembling them. This will take some time. Smaller patches for TESO (which were 200-300 MB) took 30-90 minutes, depending on if the console was in rest mode or in use (using the console for anything else while downloading/installing a patch will drastically slow down the patch process. Larger patches took from 1 hour (rest mode) to 4 hours (console online).

That depends on the game and not really if the game is large, Overwatch is only around 23gb and TESO 100gb. Ever since the 4.0 OS patch, Sony put in *copying* in the patch progress. Which is in another words *overwrite*. So they can slash the requirements GB for installing and make it smaller. They did it also for Overwatch 27gb to 13gb in 2017. Today still smaller with all new content added to it. Patch with 200mb small files can make things *copying* longer then one 1-2 gb big file. Only a faster HDD or SSD will help.

The old patch system was only adding new files and the old files stayed, fast install-bigger games.

I am happy with this new FFXIV patch system. PS4 download was always capped around 8mb when updating. On PSN I have around 30mb.

[Tint]

awesome!

i had to redownload the whole game a couple of times because of that version check error. hope this will fix it ^^

[Derio]

31GB, essentially you need that space to download the update which will then replace the 31 GB you already have of the existing patches. But at the same time who doesnt have 31GB of free space.

I am glad they are finally doing this.