Please allow us to update the game without active subscription

[Crystal_Raven]

So I know a friend who commented that they wanted to buy 30 days of subscription to try out ShB, but they lamented that they are going to lose out on 2-3 days of subscription time just trying to download the simply massive update (they've been away for awhile).

And that brought me to an idea -- why is it we cannot update the game and then sub up so we're not wasting a lot of our subscription on days we can't even play because we're still downloading?

2-3 days?

I'm sorry but is he on borderline dial-up?