Patch sizes...

zach.meyer_ESO

I have fairly decent internet speeds, and I don't normally like to complain about trivial things, but it's a little ridiculous that every time there's a game update there's over 4 GB of information to download in a patch. And even on a very fast fiber connection it takes forever to download.

Perhaps some compression, or maybe Zenimax can change their patching technology through some sort of caching or P2P... because some of us would like to play on patch day. Especially after an 8 hour maintenance downtime -_-

Ok rant over, I feel better now.

Kaloran

At least you didn't have to download it twice like someone I know...

zach.meyer_ESO

You never know though, a half-hour later and I am at 2%. Whoopie! So yeah, I suppose lets hope that's not the case...

lecarcajou_ESO

You know what they call this sort of thing on Steam? "Early Access." You know, for the pathologically impatient.

Auralia

It's not too bad, after half an hour it's downloaded 74% But I have a fast connection.

Kaloran

At 1.5 mB/s, the first time took over two hours... Now I get to do it again. YAY!

Sighlynce

Its a big patch and for some reason my game goes from downloading the 4g patch to needing to download over 22000+ mgb ... This is crazy . Wonder why the whole game needs a redo.. I'm on satellite and could handle the 4gb but had to stop the patch when everything was reloading .. Is this happening to anyone else?

Umeil

Have to agree here.
Your ability to make people download 12gig of data is astounding. That must take some real hardcore forward planning..... clap clap.

Download 4.8gig at 3% then at 29% a further dl of 500 meg. then at 48% another 4.6 gig dl and then at 79% another 500 meg to dl. And wow would you believe it then have to redo it all again. Utterly brilliant realy go and pat your team on the back.

KerberosSoldier

Since release of the patch I have been dling at 40-100 kb/s im at 69% -_-

Rotherhans

letohatcheeub17_ESO wrote: »

Its a big patch and for some reason my game goes from downloading the 4g patch to needing to download over 22000+ mgb ... This is crazy .

Are you sure you´re not confusing the patching process with downloading?
This launcher isn´t the best at conveying information clearly.
First there´s the download of the 4GB gamedata patch, that gets applied to the 22+GB of the game.
Then comes the 4GB sound&music download which patches up the rest of the game containing all the babbling & stuff. Though if you ask me there´s not much patching there, looks like an outright redownload.

Fleymark

Beyond the actual patch size, they would do themselves and all of us a favor if they would stop with the one massive patch a month and fix things in smaller batches incrementally, getting it right the first time. We have 2 scheduled downtimes a week. They should use them.

Even if they can't get it right the first time, splitting it up would be so much nicer. Assuming they introduce 2 new bugs with every 10 things they fix, I would rather get hit with 4 bugs once or twice a week than 40 bugs all at once once a month.

mojavemike1

Huge patches can cause huge problems...why not give us smaller patches that are more manageable. I remember WoW doing this.

Rotherhans

It simple.
Huge patches are easier to code. Especially when you keep changing and rewriting the content of the patch.

Catman14

Yes this is ridiculous.
I started patching last night at 6pm and it finished sometime early this morning (I went to bed at midnight and it said it was on 73%).

When will developers realise that outside of the major cities in the UK broadband speeds are pretty awful. I'm getting 3mb (approx.) here on the edge of a small town. I understand that in the States it is often even worse.

If I'm having a tantrum with this game, the ones you get when you get 3 borked quests in a row or have had endless loading screens then I could be tempted to just ditch the game rather than face tying up my internet connection for 12 hours in order to download a patch that could make things even worse.

wafffllesss

Took me 28 hours to complete the download.... and you think you know pain?

(Yes, unfortunatly the only internet provider that reaches my home is ***..)

Kuratla

5 hours from the jungles of northern Thailand. Not bad... all things considering.

crislevin

Rotherhans wrote: »

It simple.
Huge patches are easier to code. Especially when you keep changing and rewriting the content of the patch.

now we all know we are paying them to beta testing this thing......LOL

claudosan

claudosan wrote: »

IMO I really can't complain. I would've downloaded a 50gb patch if it meant they were gonna fix many issues.

It would help though if they divided the patch up into even smaller pieces than 4gb and had the choice of downloading "All" or "Selected Parts."

Being able to download a packaged update from a different server through a browser on an official ESO page would help immensely as well.

Also, there is a download speed selection option in the launcher (just fyi).