Patch 1.23c size?

[Avraym]

Does anyone else thing that the 1.22c patch size was considerably large for a small handful of hot fixes? Not complaining about the size or anything like that, just curious if theres future content buried in the data.

Only mentioning because past hotfix patches have been 10x smaller which makes me think theres some future content/items buried in there..

Dat miners will soon tell if this is the case.

(It's been a slow news week, hungry for news )

[KiriA500]

We got the 1.23c patch before 1.23? Neat!

[Seirra_Lanzce]

.... 1.22c

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post738272

[Avraym]

We got the 1.23c patch before 1.23? Neat!

God damn it! And its in the bloody title of all things.

[Colino]

Does anyone else thing that the 1.22c patch size was considerably large for a small handful of hot fixes? Not complaining about the size or anything like that, just curious if theres future content buried in the data.

Only mentioning because past hotfix patches have been 10x smaller which makes me think theres some future content/items buried in there..

Dat miners will soon tell if this is the case.

(It's been a slow news week, hungry for news )

Every hotfix "includes" the full patch as well (in this case, 1.22c also includes all of 1.22).

[Chrees]

Every hotfix "includes" the full patch as well (in this case, 1.22c also includes all of 1.22).

Partially true! Each of the lettered patches are their own entities, but when hotfixes require an update (sometimes they've been patches to the server instead), they include all of the lettered patch they're associated with. In this case, today's patch included both the hotfixes and the entirety of 1.22c. Here's a list of all the 1.22 patches we've had so far:

• D2012.04.23.0001.patch (1.22) - 276 MB
• D2012.05.08.0000.patch (1.22a) - 26 MB
• D2012.05.15.0000.patch (1.22a Hotfix) - 26.1 MB
• D2012.05.22.0000.patch (1.22a Hotfix) - 26.4 MB
• D2012.06.06.0000.patch (1.22b) -123 MB
• D2012.06.19.0000.patch (1.22c) - 127 MB
• D2012.06.26.0000.patch (1.22c Hotfix) - 127.1 MB

[Avraym]

TYVM. Clever Lala's

[Haibel]

Partially true! Each of the lettered patches are their own entities, but when hotfixes require an update (sometimes they've been patches to the server instead), they include all of the lettered patch they're associated with. In this case, today's patch included both the hotfixes and the entirety of 1.22c. Here's a list of all the 1.22 patches we've had so far:

• D2012.04.23.0001.patch (1.22) - 276 MB
• D2012.05.08.0000.patch (1.22a) - 26 MB
• D2012.05.15.0000.patch (1.22a Hotfix) - 26.1 MB
• D2012.05.22.0000.patch (1.22a Hotfix) - 26.4 MB
• D2012.06.06.0000.patch (1.22b) -123 MB
• D2012.06.19.0000.patch (1.22c) - 127 MB
• D2012.06.26.0000.patch (1.22c Hotfix) - 127.1 MB

That is interesting Info. I would hope SE would take into account that More and More ISP are Metering Bandwidth.
Not to mention there own bandwidth cost. Streaming 127mb X subs for a 300kb update isn't very cost effective.

[Chrees]

That is interesting Info. I would hope SE would take into account that More and More ISP are Metering Bandwidth.
Not to mention there own bandwidth cost. Streaming 127mb X subs for a 300kb update isn't very cost effective.

Yeah, it's definitely not a very good solution, but it is better than it used to be for patches 1.16 and 1.17, which was what Colino described earlier.

Patch 1.17 was the worst offender, with the base patch being 325 MB and a, b, and c being 327, 328, and 328.1 MB, respectively. The community was pretty up in arms about it too, because they were downloading such big patches just for fairly minor changes like new targeting modes and bug fixes. Anyone who remembers the "LOLPATCH 1.16/1.17" threads knows what I'm talking about, haha.

Thankfully that didn't last long, and they implemented the current system with patch 1.18.

[Eekiki]

Seems to me it wouldn't be so difficult to write a program that scans your program files, sees which ones need updating, and downloads only those files that are necessary.